Re: [PATCH] perf report: show sort_order in title

From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
Date: Mon Mar 13 2017 - 10:47:28 EST


Em Mon, Mar 13, 2017 at 04:36:35PM +0800, changbin.du@xxxxxxxxx escreveu:
> From: Changbin Du <changbin.du@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> In the report, how does the data sort is a important info for
> analyser. Moreover, perf sometimes insert or append sort fields
> automatically. Thus user may confuse how it sorts w/o reading
> perf internal. So here print the order info to repor title.
>
> Signed-off-by: Changbin Du <changbin.du@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> tools/perf/ui/browsers/hists.c | 22 ++++++++++++++++++++++
> 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/tools/perf/ui/browsers/hists.c b/tools/perf/ui/browsers/hists.c
> index fc4fb66..6c6b615 100644
> --- a/tools/perf/ui/browsers/hists.c
> +++ b/tools/perf/ui/browsers/hists.c
> @@ -2194,6 +2194,25 @@ static inline bool is_report_browser(void *timer)
> return timer == NULL;
> }
>
> +static int get_sort_fields_str(struct hists *hists, char *buf, size_t size)

I'll just rename this to use the tools/perf/ style for such functions,
making it:

static int hists__scnprintf_sort_fields(hists, buf, size)

> +{
> + struct perf_hpp_fmt *fmt;
> + bool first = true;
> + int ret = 0;
> +
> + hists__for_each_sort_list(hists, fmt) {
> + if (first) {
> + first = false;
> + ret += scnprintf(buf + ret, size - ret, "%s", fmt->name);
> + } else {
> + ret += scnprintf(buf + ret, size - ret, ",%s", fmt->name);
> + }
> + if (size - ret <= 0)
> + break;
> + }
> + return ret;
> +}
> +
> static int perf_evsel_browser_title(struct hist_browser *browser,
> char *bf, size_t size)
> {
> @@ -2274,6 +2293,9 @@ static int perf_evsel_browser_title(struct hist_browser *browser,
> printed += scnprintf(bf + printed, size - printed, " [z]");
> }
>
> + get_sort_fields_str(hists, buf, sizeof(buf));
> + printed += scnprintf(bf + printed, size - printed, ", Sort by: %s", buf);
> +
> return printed;
> }
>
> --
> 2.7.4