Re: [PATCH 4/5] perf tools: Introduce perf_callchain_config()

[Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>]

On Sun, Sep 21, 2014 at 01:18:05AM +0900, Namhyung Kim wrote:

SNIP

> +int perf_callchain_config(const char *var, const char *value)
> +{
> +	if (prefixcmp(var, "call-graph."))
> +		return 0;
> +	var += 11; /* strlen("call-graph.") == 11 */
> +
> +	if (!strcmp(var, "record-mode"))
> +		return parse_callchain_record_opt(value);
> +#ifdef HAVE_DWARF_UNWIND_SUPPORT
> +	if (!strcmp(var, "dump-size")) {
> +		unsigned long size = 0;
> +		int ret;
> +
> +		ret = get_stack_size(value, &size);
> +		callchain_param.dump_size = size;
> +
> +		return ret;
> +	}
> +#endif
> +	if (!strcmp(var, "print-type"))
> +		return parse_callchain_report_opt(value);
> +	if (!strcmp(var, "order"))
> +		return parse_callchain_report_opt(value);
> +	if (!strcmp(var, "threshold"))
> +		return parse_callchain_report_opt(value);
> +	if (!strcmp(var, "print-limit"))
> +		return parse_callchain_report_opt(value);
> +	if (!strcmp(var, "sort-key"))
> +		return parse_callchain_report_opt(value);

so this allows to spcify option like:

[call-graph]
        sort-key = caller,function,1

which might be confusing for someone.. personaly I'm ok with that,
I'm just raising it, because it's not apparent and not sure how
strict we want to be in here ;-)

jirka