linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 4/5] perf tools: Introduce perf_callchain

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Date:	Mon, 22 Sep 2014 16:24:10 +0200
From:	Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...hat.com>
To:	Namhyung Kim <namhyung@...nel.org>
Cc:	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...nel.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>,
	David Ahern <dsahern@...il.com>,
	Milian Wolff <mail@...ianw.de>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/5] perf tools: Introduce perf_callchain_config()

On Sun, Sep 21, 2014 at 01:18:05AM +0900, Namhyung Kim wrote:

SNIP

> +int perf_callchain_config(const char *var, const char *value)
> +{
> +	if (prefixcmp(var, "call-graph."))
> +		return 0;
> +	var += 11; /* strlen("call-graph.") == 11 */
> +
> +	if (!strcmp(var, "record-mode"))
> +		return parse_callchain_record_opt(value);
> +#ifdef HAVE_DWARF_UNWIND_SUPPORT
> +	if (!strcmp(var, "dump-size")) {
> +		unsigned long size = 0;
> +		int ret;
> +
> +		ret = get_stack_size(value, &size);
> +		callchain_param.dump_size = size;
> +
> +		return ret;
> +	}
> +#endif
> +	if (!strcmp(var, "print-type"))
> +		return parse_callchain_report_opt(value);
> +	if (!strcmp(var, "order"))
> +		return parse_callchain_report_opt(value);
> +	if (!strcmp(var, "threshold"))
> +		return parse_callchain_report_opt(value);
> +	if (!strcmp(var, "print-limit"))
> +		return parse_callchain_report_opt(value);
> +	if (!strcmp(var, "sort-key"))
> +		return parse_callchain_report_opt(value);

so this allows to spcify option like:

[call-graph]
        sort-key = caller,function,1

which might be confusing for someone.. personaly I'm ok with that,
I'm just raising it, because it's not apparent and not sure how
strict we want to be in here ;-)

jirka
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