Hello, This implements what Arnaldo suggested in previous discussion of hierarchy patchset [1]. Originally each level in a hierarchy can have a single sort key in it, but with patches it's possible to have more than one sort keys. I added the struct perf_hpp_list_node and carry it to group output formats (hpp_fmt) in a single level.
I used ':' character instead of '+' as suggested since the '+' was also used to extend existing sort keys (like -s '+cpu'). Example below shows how 4 sort keys are used for 2 levels. As you can see, the first level shows pid and comm of previous (switched) task and the second level shows pid and comm of next task. $ perf report --hierarchy -s prev_pid:prev_comm,next_pid:next_comm \ --percent-limit 1 -i perf.data.sched ... # Overhead prev_pid+prev_comm / next_pid+next_comm # ........... ....................................... # 22.36% 0 swapper/0 9.48% 17773 transmission-gt 5.25% 109 kworker/0:1H 1.53% 6524 Xephyr 21.39% 17773 transmission-gt 9.52% 0 swapper/0 9.04% 0 swapper/2 1.78% 0 swapper/3 It's available on the 'perf/hierarchy-multi-v1' branch in my tree git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/namhyung/linux-perf.git Any feedbacks are welcome Thanks, Namhyung [1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/2/24/1041 Namhyung Kim (8): perf tools: Add level field to struct perf_hpp_fmt perf tools: Introduce perf_hpp__setup_hists_formats() perf tools: Use own hpp_list for hierarchy mode perf tools: Support multiple sort keys in a hierarchy perf tools: Fix indent for multiple hierarchy sort key perf report: Use hierarchy hpp list on stdio perf hists browser: Use hierarchy hpp list perf report: Use hierarchy hpp list on gtk tools/perf/ui/browsers/hists.c | 147 +++++++++++++++++++---------------- tools/perf/ui/gtk/hists.c | 73 +++++++++++------- tools/perf/ui/hist.c | 67 ++++++++++++++++ tools/perf/ui/stdio/hist.c | 171 +++++++++++++++++++++-------------------- tools/perf/util/hist.c | 81 +++++++++++++------ tools/perf/util/hist.h | 12 +++ tools/perf/util/sort.c | 123 ++++++++++++++++++++--------- tools/perf/util/sort.h | 1 + 8 files changed, 438 insertions(+), 237 deletions(-) -- 2.7.1