Re: [PATCH 00/13] perf tools: Move perf subcommand framework into lib/tools

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Sun Dec 06 2015 - 04:38:03 EST



* Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Ingo suggested that I factor out the perf subcommand functionality
> (originally copied from git) into tools/lib so that it can be used by
> stacktool[*] and possibly others.
>
> All the subcommand option handling files have been moved into libapi,
> including parse-options.c, run-command.c, exec_cmd.c, help.c, usage.c,
> and their dependencies. Since several of the dependencies are more
> general-purpose "utilities" which aren't directly related to
> subcommands, I put everything in 'tools/lib/api/util'. They're linked
> into perf as part of the libapi.a library.
>
> Patches 1-10 do some cleanups and splitting up of the code in
> preparation for the move.
>
> Patch 11 does the actual moving of the files into tools/lib/api/util.
>
> [*] https://lkml.kernel.org/r/cover.1445443144.git.jpoimboe@xxxxxxxxxx
>
> Josh Poimboeuf (13):
> perf: Use -iquote for local include paths
> perf: Split up util.h
> perf: Move term functions out of util.c
> perf: Remove unused pager_use_color variable
> perf: Split up cache.h
> perf: Remove cache.h
> perf: Save cmdline arguments earlier
> perf: Remove check for unused PERF_PAGER_IN_USE
> perf: Move cmd_version() to builtin-version.c
> perf: Move help_unknown_cmd() to its own file
> perf tools: Move strlcpy() to tools/lib/string.c
> perf tools: Move perf subcommand framework into a library
> perf tools: Move subcommand framework and related utils to libapi

> 133 files changed, 852 insertions(+), 761 deletions(-)

So this split-out looks great to me!

A bit of a background: this series is a necessary precondition of me being able to
merge 'stacktool' and the frame pointer handling enhancements Josh is working on -
but it would be nice if this could all be done via Arnaldo's perf tree to minimize
any impact on pending perf work.

I've Cc:-ed Namhyung and Jiri as well, who've done a lot of work in perf/util/.

Thanks,

Ingo
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