Re: [PATCH v1 8/9] perf stat: Remove --per-thread pid/tid limitation

[Jin, Yao]

On 11/21/2017 11:18 PM, Jiri Olsa wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 20, 2017 at 10:43:43PM +0800, Jin Yao wrote:
>
> SNIP
>
> > -	if ((stat_config.aggr_mode == AGGR_THREAD) && !target__has_task(&target)) {
> > -		fprintf(stderr, "The --per-thread option is only available "
> > -			"when monitoring via -p -t options.\n");
> > -		parse_options_usage(NULL, stat_options, "p", 1);
> > -		parse_options_usage(NULL, stat_options, "t", 1);
> > -		goto out;
> > +	if ((stat_config.aggr_mode == AGGR_THREAD) &&
> > +		!target__has_task(&target)) {
> > +		if (!target.system_wide || target.cpu_list) {
> > +			fprintf(stderr, "The --per-thread option is only "
> > +				"available when monitoring via -p -t "
> > +				"options.\n");
>
> the message should be updated with '-a' option, that you just added,

OK. Could I update the message like this?

"The --per-thread option is only "
"available when monitoring via -p -t -a"
"options or only --per-thread without any other option"

> also why dont we support target.cpu_list, it should work no?

Currently it doesn't support cpu_list.

I just think this patch series is too big and I wish to add supporting 
for cpu_list, cgroup or others in follow up patches.

Is that OK?

Thanks
Jin Yao
> jirka