On Tue, 4 Sep 2012 17:13:27 +0800, Feng Tang wrote:
> Hi Namhyung,
>
> Thanks for your kind and thorough reviews.
>
> On Tue, 4 Sep 2012 10:57:35 +0900
> Namhyung Kim <namhy...@kernel.org> wrote:
>
>> On Mon, 3 Sep 2012 16:14:31 +0800, Feng Tang wrote:
>> > Create a script browser, so that user can check all the available
>> > scripts and run them inside the main perf report or annotation
>> > browsers, for all the perf samples or samples belong to one
>> > thread/symbol.
>> >
>> > The work flow is, users can use function key to list all the available
>> > scripts in system and chose one, which will be executed with
>> > popen("perf script -s xxx.xx",) and all the output lines are put into
>> > one ui browser, pressing 'q' or left arrow key will make it return
>> > to previous browser.
>>
>> It could be used for TUI interface of perf script itself too (at least
>> for --list option) IMHO.
>
> Do you mean make the "perf script -l" to be shown in a browser, or we
> use the same popen("perf script -l") way to cache and list the all the
> scripts so that we don't need the find_scripts()?
I meant the former.
>
>>
>>
>> >
>> > Please be noted, most of the in-tree scripts with name xxxtop are
>> > dynamically run and not supported by this static browser.
>>
>> If so, wouldn't it be better adding a filter not to show those
>> unsupported scripts somehow?
>
> Good idea, will simply filter them in next version.
>>
>>
[SNIP]
>> > +
>> > + fp = popen(cmd, "r");
>> > + if (!fp)
>> > + goto exit;
>> > +
>> > + while ((retlen = getline(&line, &len, fp)) != -1) {
>> > + strcpy(sline[nr_entries].line, line);
>>
>> What if the len is larger than sline[].line?
>
> That's a problem, how about adding a check for "retlen" and cut that
> line to fit the SCRIPT_FULLPATH_LEN? Or we just wrap the long line
> by using several struct script_line to save it?
The first option looks better for simplicity.
Thanks,
Namhyung
>
>>
>>
>> > + list_add_tail(&sline[nr_entries].node, &script.entries);
>> > +
>> > + if (script.b.width < retlen)
>> > + script.b.width = retlen;
>> > + nr_entries++;
>>
>> I think you need this too:
>>
>> if (nr_entries >= MAX_LINES)
>> break;
>> > + }
>> > +
>> > + script.nr_lines = nr_entries;
>> > + script.b.nr_entries = nr_entries;
>> > + script.b.entries = &script.entries;
>> > +
>> > + ret = script_browser__run(&script);
>> > +
>> > + if (line)
>> > + free(line);
>>
>> No pclose(fp) ?
>>
>>
>> > +
>> > +exit:
>> > + free(sline);
>> > + return ret;
>> > +}
>> > diff --git a/tools/perf/ui/browsers/scripts.h
>> > b/tools/perf/ui/browsers/scripts.h
>> > new file mode 100644
>> > index 0000000..011baa8
>> > --- /dev/null
>> > +++ b/tools/perf/ui/browsers/scripts.h
>> > @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
>> > +#ifndef _PERF_UI_BROWSER_BROWSER_H_
>> > +#define _PERF_UI_BROWSER_BROWSER_H_ 1
>>
>> I guess you want _PERF_UI_BROWSER_SCRIPT_H_ ?
>
> Exactly.
>
> I'll address the comments in this email and those in other emails. thanks!
>
> - Feng
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