linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v4 4/5] perf report: Show branch type statistics for stdio mode

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Date:   Wed, 19 Apr 2017 08:53:03 +0800
From:   "Jin, Yao" <yao.jin@...ux.intel.com>
To:     Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...hat.com>
Cc:     acme@...nel.org, jolsa@...nel.org, peterz@...radead.org,
        mingo@...hat.com, alexander.shishkin@...ux.intel.com,
        Linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, ak@...ux.intel.com,
        kan.liang@...el.com, yao.jin@...el.com,
        linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 4/5] perf report: Show branch type statistics for stdio
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On 4/19/2017 2:53 AM, Jiri Olsa wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 12, 2017 at 06:21:05AM +0800, Jin Yao wrote:
>
> SNIP
>
>> +const char *branch_type_name(int type)
>> +{
>> +	const char *branch_names[PERF_BR_MAX] = {
>> +		"N/A",
>> +		"JCC",
>> +		"JMP",
>> +		"IND_JMP",
>> +		"CALL",
>> +		"IND_CALL",
>> +		"RET",
>> +		"SYSCALL",
>> +		"SYSRET",
>> +		"IRQ",
>> +		"INT",
>> +		"IRET",
>> +		"FAR_BRANCH",
>> +	};
>> +
>> +	if ((type >= 0) && (type < PERF_BR_MAX))
>> +		return branch_names[type];
>> +
>> +	return NULL;
> looks like we should add util/branch.c with above functions
> and merge it with util/parse-branch-options.c
>
> we create new file even for less code ;-)
>
> thanks,
> jirka

Could we directly add branch_type_name() in util/parse-branch-options.c?

I just feel it's a bit waste of creating a new file for less code. :)

Thanks
Jin Yao