[tip:perf/core] perf report: Fix some option handling on --stdio

tip-bot for Namhyung Kim
2015-05-15T06:46:58Z

Commit-ID: 4fd113b5ce803da0b8fa0494513bedfdf2feb483
Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/4fd113b5ce803da0b8fa0494513bedfdf2feb483
Author: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
AuthorDate: Thu, 14 May 2015 00:03:26 +0900
Committer: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
CommitDate: Thu, 14 May 2015 10:05:22 -0300

perf report: Fix some option handling on --stdio

There's a bug that perf report sometimes ignore some options on --stdio
output. This bug is triggered only if a related config variable is set.
For example, let's assume we have a following config file.

$ cat ~/.perfconfig
[call-graph]
print-type = graph
[hist]
percentage = absolute

Then, following perf config will not honor some options.

$ perf record -ag sleep 1
[ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ]
[ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.199 MB perf.data (77 samples) ]

$ perf report -g none --stdio
# To display the perf.data header info, please use --header/--header-only options.
#
# Samples: 77 of event 'cycles'
# Event count (approx.): 25425383
#
# Overhead Command Shared Object Symbol
# ........ ............... ....................... ..............
#
16.34% swapper [kernel.vmlinux] [k] intel_idle
|
---intel_idle
cpuidle_enter_state
cpuidle_enter
cpu_startup_entry
...

With '-g none' option, it should not show callchains, but it still shows
callchains. However it works as expected on --tui output.

Similarly, '--percentage relative' option is not work and still shows a
absolute percentage values.

Looking at the source, I found that those setting were overwritten by
config variables when setup_pager() called. The setup_pager() is to
start a pager process so that it can manage long lines of output on the
stdio mode. But as it calls the perf_config() after parsing arguments,
the settings were overwritten regardless of command line options.

The reason it calls perf_config() is to find the 'pager_program' which
might be set by a config variable, I guess. However current perf code
does not provide the config variable for it, so it's just meaningless
IMHO. Eliminating the call makes the option working as expected.

Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Taeung Song <treeze.taeung@gmail.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1431529406-6762-1-git-send-email-namhyung@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
---
tools/perf/util/cache.h | 1 -
tools/perf/util/environment.c | 1 -
tools/perf/util/pager.c | 5 -----
3 files changed, 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tools/perf/util/cache.h b/tools/perf/util/cache.h
index fbcca21..c861373 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/cache.h
+++ b/tools/perf/util/cache.h
@@ -30,7 +30,6 @@ extern const char *perf_config_dirname(const char *, const char *);

/* pager.c */
extern void setup_pager(void);
-extern const char *pager_program;
extern int pager_in_use(void);
extern int pager_use_color;

diff --git a/tools/perf/util/environment.c b/tools/perf/util/environment.c
index 275b0ee..7405123 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/environment.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/environment.c
@@ -5,5 +5,4 @@
*/
#include "cache.h"

-const char *pager_program;
int pager_use_color = 1;
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/pager.c b/tools/perf/util/pager.c
index 31ee02d..53ef006 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/pager.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/pager.c
@@ -50,11 +50,6 @@ void setup_pager(void)

if (!isatty(1))
return;
- if (!pager) {
- if (!pager_program)
- perf_config(perf_default_config, NULL);
- pager = pager_program;
- }
if (!pager)
pager = getenv("PAGER");
if (!(pager || access("/usr/bin/pager", X_OK)))