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From: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@infradead.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>,
	Fr??d??ric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>,
	Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>,
	Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 5/5] perf report: Initial TUI using newt
Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2010 11:55:04 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4B9A0F78.7020201@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100312094533.GA13177@elte.hu>

On 03/12/2010 11:45 AM, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>
>   - When i hit enter on a symbol to annotate it, but the annotation fails, the TUI
>     just does nothing currently. Instead it should print something informative
>     (and eye-catching) into a status line at the top or the bottom of the
>     screen, possibly printed in red characters or so. Not a separate window as that
>     needs extra key-hits to get rid of - just a sufficiently visible status
>     line would be perfect. There can be a few reasons why some functions can be
>     annotated while others cannot be.
>    

Alternatively, mark it as unannotatable in the first place (e.g. an 
annotatable symbol is a hyperlink, an unannotatable one is not).  But 
perhaps that's too computationally expensive.

-- 
Do not meddle in the internals of kernels, for they are subtle and quick to panic.


  reply	other threads:[~2010-03-12  9:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-03-11 23:12 [PATCH v2 1/5] perf symbols: Bump plt synthesizing warning debug level Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2010-03-11 23:12 ` [PATCH v2 2/5] perf top: Export get_window_dimensions Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2010-03-11 23:12 ` [PATCH v2 3/5] perf tools: Use eprintf for pr_{err,warning,info} too Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2010-03-11 23:12 ` [PATCH v2 4/5] perf tools: Add missing bytes printed in hist_entry__fprintf Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2010-03-11 23:12 ` [PATCH v2 5/5] perf report: Initial TUI using newt Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2010-03-11 23:29   ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2010-03-12  5:43     ` Frederic Weisbecker
2010-03-12  8:21     ` Avi Kivity
2010-03-12  6:48   ` Mike Galbraith
     [not found]     ` <1268377317.24910.1.camel@marge.simson.net>
2010-03-12 13:56       ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2010-03-12  9:45   ` Ingo Molnar
2010-03-12  9:55     ` Avi Kivity [this message]
2010-03-12 13:27       ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2010-03-12 13:25     ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

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