Re: [PATCH v1 1/6] perf annotate: Delete session for debug builds

From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
Date: Wed Mar 29 2023 - 09:18:38 EST


Em Wed, Mar 29, 2023 at 10:09:48AM -0300, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo escreveu:
> Em Tue, Mar 28, 2023 at 04:55:38PM -0700, Ian Rogers escreveu:
> > Use the debug build indicator as the guide to free the session. This
> > implements a behavior described in a comment, which is consequentially
> > removed.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > tools/perf/builtin-annotate.c | 16 ++++++----------
> > 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-annotate.c b/tools/perf/builtin-annotate.c
> > index 4750fac7bf93..98d1b6379230 100644
> > --- a/tools/perf/builtin-annotate.c
> > +++ b/tools/perf/builtin-annotate.c
> > @@ -692,16 +692,12 @@ int cmd_annotate(int argc, const char **argv)
> >
> > out_delete:
> > /*
> > - * Speed up the exit process, for large files this can
> > - * take quite a while.
> > - *
> > - * XXX Enable this when using valgrind or if we ever
> > - * librarize this command.
> > - *
> > - * Also experiment with obstacks to see how much speed
> > - * up we'll get here.
> > - *
> > - * perf_session__delete(session);
> > + * Speed up the exit process by only deleting for debug builds. For
> > + * large files this can save time.
> > */
> > +#ifndef NDEBUG
> > + perf_session__delete(annotate.session);
> > +#endif
>
> So now, but default, we will call this, as we don't have this defined
> only if DEBUG=1 is set, right?
>
> ⬢[acme@toolbox perf-tools-next]$ find tools/perf/ -type f | xargs grep NDEBUG
> tools/perf/util/mutex.c:#ifndef NDEBUG
> ⬢[acme@toolbox perf-tools-next]$

We can discuss this later, applied the series with just that zfree()
change to annotation_options__exit().

- Arnaldo