Re: perf tools: Introduce new -P/--parent-deep report option

[Namhyung Kim]

Hi Arnaldo,

On Wed, 26 Jun 2013 11:58:53 -0300, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote:
> Hi Jiri,
>
> 	About the patch below, can't this be solved by using a regex
> instead of a simple substring search instead of adding a new command
> line option?

???

IIUC he reused parent_regex for this.

And I think we can have the same effect by using -G and -p option
together without this new option.

Thanks,
Namhyung

>
> - Arnaldo
>
> commit 5b42ff035ec784c5c42c4a6bb9e7fada882f097e
> Author: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Date:   Tue Jun 18 18:31:50 2013 +0200
>
>     perf tools: Introduce new -P/--parent-deep report option
>     
>     Introducing new -P/--parent-deep report option. It does the
>     same as '-p' but it force the deep search of the callchain
>     and looks for the deepest possible match.
>     
>     The -p option searches for the first match of the parent
>     pattern in the callchain.
>     
>       $ perf report -i perf.data.delete -p perf_session__delete -s parent
>     
>       +  99.51%  [other]
>       +   0.46%  perf_session__delete_dead_threads
>       +   0.03%  perf_session__delete
>       +   0.00%  perf_session__delete_threads
>     
>     so we got multiple 'different' matches instancies, while
>     they all belong under perf_session__delete function:
>     
>       $ perf report -i perf.data.delete -P perf_session__delete -s parent
>     
>       +  99.51%  [other]
>       +   0.49%  perf_session__delete
>     
>     NOTE the 'p' vs 'P' difference in above commands above.
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