Re: [PATCH 1/2] perf tools: Drop strdup in get_filename_for_perf_kvm().

[Dongsheng Yang <yangds.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com>]

Arnaldo or David,
     Could you help to review this patchset. Thanx.

- Yang

On 12/11/2013 12:47 PM, Dongsheng Yang wrote:
> As we need a const char * as a result of get_filename_for_perf_kvm(),
> There is no need to use strdup() for the return value.
>
> This patch drop the strdup() to save memory in get_filename_for_perf_kvm().
>
> Signed-off-by: Dongsheng Yang <yangds.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com>
> ---
>   tools/perf/builtin-kvm.c | 8 +-------
>   tools/perf/util/util.c   | 6 +++---
>   2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-kvm.c b/tools/perf/builtin-kvm.c
> index c6fa3cb..03bd946 100644
> --- a/tools/perf/builtin-kvm.c
> +++ b/tools/perf/builtin-kvm.c
> @@ -1712,15 +1712,9 @@ int cmd_kvm(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix __maybe_unused)
>   	if (!perf_host)
>   		perf_guest = 1;
>   
> -	if (!file_name) {
> +	if (!file_name)
>   		file_name = get_filename_for_perf_kvm();
>   
> -		if (!file_name) {
> -			pr_err("Failed to allocate memory for filename\n");
> -			return -ENOMEM;
> -		}
> -	}
> -
>   	if (!strncmp(argv[0], "rec", 3))
>   		return __cmd_record(file_name, argc, argv);
>   	else if (!strncmp(argv[0], "rep", 3))
> diff --git a/tools/perf/util/util.c b/tools/perf/util/util.c
> index 4a57609..e9cb136 100644
> --- a/tools/perf/util/util.c
> +++ b/tools/perf/util/util.c
> @@ -488,11 +488,11 @@ const char *get_filename_for_perf_kvm(void)
>   	const char *filename;
>   
>   	if (perf_host && !perf_guest)
> -		filename = strdup("perf.data.host");
> +		filename = "perf.data.host";
>   	else if (!perf_host && perf_guest)
> -		filename = strdup("perf.data.guest");
> +		filename = "perf.data.guest";
>   	else
> -		filename = strdup("perf.data.kvm");
> +		filename = "perf.data.kvm";
>   
>   	return filename;
>   }