Re: [PATCH 2/8] perf tools: Introduce perf_hpp__setup_hists_formats()

[Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>]

On Thu, Mar 03, 2016 at 01:12:02AM +0900, Namhyung Kim wrote:

SNIP

> +struct perf_hpp_fmt *perf_hpp_fmt__copy(struct perf_hpp_fmt *fmt);
> +
>  int hist_entry__filter(struct hist_entry *he, int type, const void *arg);
>  
>  static inline bool perf_hpp__should_skip(struct perf_hpp_fmt *format,
> diff --git a/tools/perf/util/sort.c b/tools/perf/util/sort.c
> index 590ebf70e6da..29c75f0374c4 100644
> --- a/tools/perf/util/sort.c
> +++ b/tools/perf/util/sort.c
> @@ -1908,6 +1908,31 @@ __alloc_dynamic_entry(struct perf_evsel *evsel, struct format_field *field,
>  	return hde;
>  }
>  
> +struct perf_hpp_fmt *perf_hpp_fmt__copy(struct perf_hpp_fmt *fmt)

perf_hpp_fmt__dup might be better

> +{
> +	struct perf_hpp_fmt *new_fmt = NULL;
> +
> +	if (perf_hpp__is_sort_entry(fmt)) {
> +		struct hpp_sort_entry *hse, *new_hse;
> +
> +		hse = container_of(fmt, struct hpp_sort_entry, hpp);
> +		new_hse = memdup(hse, sizeof(*hse));
> +		if (new_hse)
> +			new_fmt = &new_hse->hpp;
> +	} else if (perf_hpp__is_dynamic_entry(fmt)) {
> +		struct hpp_dynamic_entry *hde, *new_hde;
> +
> +		hde = container_of(fmt, struct hpp_dynamic_entry, hpp);
> +		new_hde = memdup(hde, sizeof(*hde));
> +		if (new_hde)
> +			new_fmt = &new_hde->hpp;
> +	} else {
> +		new_fmt = memdup(fmt, sizeof(*fmt));
> +	}

how about also initialize new_fmt's list and sort_list in here

could save some time in future if perf_hpp_fmt__copy is
used in another place, which won't directly initialize them
like you do in add_hierarchy_fmt

jirka