linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/8] perf annotate/config: More fixes

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Date:   Mon, 17 Feb 2020 18:32:10 +0530
From:   Ravi Bangoria <ravi.bangoria@...ux.ibm.com>
To:     Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...hat.com>
Cc:     acme@...nel.org, xieyisheng1@...wei.com,
        alexey.budankov@...ux.intel.com, treeze.taeung@...il.com,
        adrian.hunter@...el.com, tmricht@...ux.ibm.com,
        namhyung@...nel.org, irogers@...gle.com, songliubraving@...com,
        yao.jin@...ux.intel.com, changbin.du@...el.com, leo.yan@...aro.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Ravi Bangoria <ravi.bangoria@...ux.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/8] perf annotate/config: More fixes



On 2/17/20 2:45 AM, Jiri Olsa wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 13, 2020 at 12:12:58PM +0530, Ravi Bangoria wrote:
>> These are the additional set of fixes on top of previous series:
>> http://lore.kernel.org/r/20200204045233.474937-1-ravi.bangoria@linux.ibm.com
>>
>> Note for the last patch:
>> I couldn't understand what intel-pt.cache-divisor is really used for.
>> Adrian, can you please help.
>>
>> Ravi Bangoria (8):
>>    perf annotate/tui: Re-render title bar after switching back from
>>      script browser
>>    perf annotate: Fix --show-total-period for tui/stdio2
>>    perf annotate: Fix --show-nr-samples for tui/stdio2
>>    perf config: Introduce perf_config_u8()
>>    perf annotate: Make perf config effective
>>    perf annotate: Prefer cmdline option over default config
>>    perf annotate: Fix perf config option description
>>    perf config: Document missing config options
> 
> nice, I guess this all worked in the past but got broken because
> we don't have any tests for annotation code.. any chance you could
> think of some way to test annotations?
> 
> perhaps some shell script, or prepare all the needed data for annotation
> manualy.. sort of like we did in tests/hists_*.c

Sure Jiri. I'll take a look at this.

Ravi