[tip:perf/urgent] perf tool: Save cmdline from user in file header vs what is passed to record

From: tip-bot for David Ahern
Date: Sun Aug 05 2012 - 12:56:33 EST


Commit-ID: 56e6f602aa4432f7fe90a0d9ba379b2735b07b6b
Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/56e6f602aa4432f7fe90a0d9ba379b2735b07b6b
Author: David Ahern <dsahern@xxxxxxxxx>
AuthorDate: Sun, 29 Jul 2012 20:53:51 -0600
Committer: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@xxxxxxxxxx>
CommitDate: Fri, 3 Aug 2012 10:33:50 -0300

perf tool: Save cmdline from user in file header vs what is passed to record

A number of builtin commands process some user args and then pass the rest to
cmd_record. cmd_record then saves argc/argv that it receives into the header of
the perf data file. But this loses the arguments handled by the first command
-- ie., the real command line from the user. This patch saves the command line
as typed by the user rather than what was passed to cmd_record.

As an example consider the command:
$ perf kvm --guest --host --guestmount=/tmp/guest-mount record
-fo /tmp/perf.data -ag -- sleep 10

Currently the command saved to the header is:
cmdline : /tmp/p3.5/perf record -o perf.data.kvm -fo /tmp/perf.data -ag -- sleep 1

(ignore the duplicated -o -- the first would be yet another bug with perf-kvm).

With this patch the command line saved to the header is:
cmdline : /tmp/p3.5/perf kvm --guest --host --guestmount=/tmp/guest-mount
record -fo /tmp/perf.data -ag -- sleep 1

v2: simplified to saving the command in parse_options per Stephane's suggestion

Signed-off-by: David Ahern <dsahern@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@xxxxxxxxxx>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1343616831-6408-1-git-send-email-dsahern@xxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
tools/perf/builtin-record.c | 2 --
tools/perf/util/header.c | 9 +++++++++
tools/perf/util/parse-options.c | 3 +++
3 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-record.c b/tools/perf/builtin-record.c
index dc2b625..4db6e1b 100644
--- a/tools/perf/builtin-record.c
+++ b/tools/perf/builtin-record.c
@@ -844,8 +844,6 @@ int cmd_record(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix __used)
struct perf_record *rec = &record;
char errbuf[BUFSIZ];

- perf_header__set_cmdline(argc, argv);
-
evsel_list = perf_evlist__new(NULL, NULL);
if (evsel_list == NULL)
return -ENOMEM;
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/header.c b/tools/perf/util/header.c
index 3a6d204..74ea3c2 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/header.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/header.c
@@ -174,6 +174,15 @@ perf_header__set_cmdline(int argc, const char **argv)
{
int i;

+ /*
+ * If header_argv has already been set, do not override it.
+ * This allows a command to set the cmdline, parse args and
+ * then call another builtin function that implements a
+ * command -- e.g, cmd_kvm calling cmd_record.
+ */
+ if (header_argv)
+ return 0;
+
header_argc = (u32)argc;

/* do not include NULL termination */
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/parse-options.c b/tools/perf/util/parse-options.c
index 99d02aa..594f8fa 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/parse-options.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/parse-options.c
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
#include "util.h"
#include "parse-options.h"
#include "cache.h"
+#include "header.h"

#define OPT_SHORT 1
#define OPT_UNSET 2
@@ -413,6 +414,8 @@ int parse_options(int argc, const char **argv, const struct option *options,
{
struct parse_opt_ctx_t ctx;

+ perf_header__set_cmdline(argc, argv);
+
parse_options_start(&ctx, argc, argv, flags);
switch (parse_options_step(&ctx, options, usagestr)) {
case PARSE_OPT_HELP:
--
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