From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751642AbdKNAPq (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Nov 2017 19:15:46 -0500 Received: from LGEAMRELO13.lge.com ([156.147.23.53]:50129 "EHLO lgeamrelo13.lge.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751073AbdKNAPo (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Nov 2017 19:15:44 -0500 X-Original-SENDERIP: 156.147.1.127 X-Original-MAILFROM: namhyung@kernel.org X-Original-SENDERIP: 10.177.227.17 X-Original-MAILFROM: namhyung@kernel.org Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2017 09:15:42 +0900 From: Namhyung Kim To: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Cc: Sihyeon Jang , Taeung Song , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Jiri Olsa , kernel-team@lge.com Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] perf help: Document missing options Message-ID: <20171114001542.GA16464@sejong> References: <1510449047-12941-1-git-send-email-uneedsihyeon@gmail.com> <20171113182956.GA8836@kernel.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20171113182956.GA8836@kernel.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.9.1 (2017-09-22) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi Arnaldo, On Mon, Nov 13, 2017 at 03:29:56PM -0300, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote: > Em Sun, Nov 12, 2017 at 10:10:45AM +0900, Sihyeon Jang escreveu: > > Cc: Jiri Olsa > > Cc: Namhyung Kim > > Signed-off-by: Sihyeon Jang > > --- > > tools/perf/Documentation/perf-help.txt | 14 +++++++++++++- > > 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) > > > > diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-help.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-help.txt > > index 5143918..bb605af 100644 > > --- a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-help.txt > > +++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-help.txt > > @@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ perf-help - display help information about perf > > > > SYNOPSIS > > -------- > > -'perf help' [-a|--all] [COMMAND] > > +'perf help' [--all] [--man|--web|--info] [COMMAND] > > Can you try figuring out if this actually works? I tried here and it > doesn't, its an area we took "for free" when we copied the initial > codebase from git.git, but I never looked at this area that much, now > that I try: Yeah, I'm not sure we need to keep it. > > [acme@jouet linux]$ perf help > Config with no key for man viewer: childrenError: wrong config key-value pair top.children=true > [acme@jouet linux]$ > > Unsure if this is something that got broken by the 'perf config' > patches, Taeung? Looks like a bug in 8e99b6d4533c ("tools include: Adopt strstarts() from the kernel"). Following patch should fix it: Thanks, Namhyung >>From 096b78b437b5758acc025498e88d73d9d471b3c0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Namhyung Kim Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2017 09:10:43 +0900 Subject: [PATCH] perf help: Fix a bug during strstart() conversion The commit 8e99b6d4533c changed prefixcmp() to strstart() but missed to change the return value in some place. It makes perf help print annoying output even for sane config items like below: $ perf help '.root': unsupported man viewer sub key. ... Fixes: 8e99b6d4533c ("tools include: Adopt strstarts() from the kernel") Cc: Taeung Song Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim --- tools/perf/builtin-help.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-help.c b/tools/perf/builtin-help.c index dbe4e4153bcf..ff51e5fc0daf 100644 --- a/tools/perf/builtin-help.c +++ b/tools/perf/builtin-help.c @@ -283,7 +283,7 @@ static int perf_help_config(const char *var, const char *value, void *cb) add_man_viewer(value); return 0; } - if (!strstarts(var, "man.")) + if (strstarts(var, "man.")) return add_man_viewer_info(var, value); return 0; @@ -313,7 +313,7 @@ static const char *cmd_to_page(const char *perf_cmd) if (!perf_cmd) return "perf"; - else if (!strstarts(perf_cmd, "perf")) + else if (strstarts(perf_cmd, "perf")) return perf_cmd; return asprintf(&s, "perf-%s", perf_cmd) < 0 ? NULL : s; -- 2.15.0