linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 00/13] perf tools: Move perf subcommand framework into lib/tools

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Message-ID: <20151206093752.GA4022@gmail.com>
Date:	Sun, 6 Dec 2015 10:37:52 +0100
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
To:	Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@...hat.com>, Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...hat.com>,
	Namhyung Kim <namhyung@...nel.org>
Cc:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...nel.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/13] perf tools: Move perf subcommand framework into
 lib/tools


* Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@...hat.com> wrote:

> Ingo suggested that I factor out the perf subcommand functionality
> (originally copied from git) into tools/lib so that it can be used by
> stacktool[*] and possibly others.
> 
> All the subcommand option handling files have been moved into libapi,
> including parse-options.c, run-command.c, exec_cmd.c, help.c, usage.c,
> and their dependencies.  Since several of the dependencies are more
> general-purpose "utilities" which aren't directly related to
> subcommands, I put everything in 'tools/lib/api/util'.  They're linked
> into perf as part of the libapi.a library.
> 
> Patches 1-10 do some cleanups and splitting up of the code in
> preparation for the move.
> 
> Patch 11 does the actual moving of the files into tools/lib/api/util.
> 
> [*] https://lkml.kernel.org/r/cover.1445443144.git.jpoimboe@redhat.com
> 
> Josh Poimboeuf (13):
>   perf: Use -iquote for local include paths
>   perf: Split up util.h
>   perf: Move term functions out of util.c
>   perf: Remove unused pager_use_color variable
>   perf: Split up cache.h
>   perf: Remove cache.h
>   perf: Save cmdline arguments earlier
>   perf: Remove check for unused PERF_PAGER_IN_USE
>   perf: Move cmd_version() to builtin-version.c
>   perf: Move help_unknown_cmd() to its own file
>   perf tools: Move strlcpy() to tools/lib/string.c
>   perf tools: Move perf subcommand framework into a library
>   perf tools: Move subcommand framework and related utils to libapi

>  133 files changed, 852 insertions(+), 761 deletions(-)

So this split-out looks great to me!

A bit of a background: this series is a necessary precondition of me being able to 
merge 'stacktool' and the frame pointer handling enhancements Josh is working on - 
but it would be nice if this could all be done via Arnaldo's perf tree to minimize 
any impact on pending perf work.

I've Cc:-ed Namhyung and Jiri as well, who've done a lot of work in perf/util/.

Thanks,

	Ingo
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