linux-kernel - [PATCH v5 3/3] perf config: Allow creating empty config set for config file autogeneration

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Date:   Thu,  7 Sep 2017 12:18:56 +0900
From:   Taeung Song <treeze.taeung@...il.com>
To:     Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...nel.org>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, taeung@...slab.kr,
        Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...nel.org>,
        Namhyung Kim <namhyung@...nel.org>
Subject: [PATCH v5 3/3] perf config: Allow creating empty config set for config file autogeneration

When there isn't a config file (e.g. ~/.perfconfig)
or it has nothing, the config set wasn't created.
If the config set not exists, a config file can't be autogenerated.

So allow creating a empty config set in the above case,
then we can support the config file autogeneration.

Before:

  $ rm -f ~/.perfconfig
  $ perf config --user report.children=false

  $ cat ~/.perfconfig
  cat: /root/.perfconfig: No such file or directory

But I think it should work even if there isn't a config file.

After:

  $ rm -f ~/.perfconfig
  $ perf config --user report.children=false

  $ cat ~/.perfconfig
  # this file is auto-generated.
  [report]
      children = false

NOTE:
As a result, if perf_config_set__init() is failed,
it seems that the config set isn't freed. But it isn't a problem.
Because the config set  will be freed by perf_config_set__delete()
at the end of cmd_config().

Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...nel.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@...nel.org>
Signed-off-by: Taeung Song <treeze.taeung@...il.com>
---
 tools/perf/util/config.c | 5 +----
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tools/perf/util/config.c b/tools/perf/util/config.c
index bc75596..d2b6983 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/config.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/config.c
@@ -700,10 +700,7 @@ struct perf_config_set *perf_config_set__new(void)
 
 	if (set) {
 		INIT_LIST_HEAD(&set->sections);
-		if (perf_config_set__init(set) < 0) {
-			perf_config_set__delete(set);
-			set = NULL;
-		}
+		perf_config_set__init(set);
 	}
 
 	return set;
-- 
2.7.4