Em Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 02:55:46PM +0100, Jiri Olsa escreveu:
> On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 11:10:52AM +0900, Namhyung Kim wrote:
> > On Fri,  9 Nov 2012 18:42:49 -0300, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote:
> > > . Add a 'link' method for hists, so that we can have the leader with
> > >   buckets for all the entries in all the hists.  This new method
> > >   is now used in the default 'diff' output, making the sum of the 
> > > 'baseline'
> > >   column be 100%, eliminating blind spots. Now we need to use this
> > >   for 'diff' with > 2 perf.data files and for multi event 'report' and
> > >   'annotate'.

> > I'm not sure it can be used for group report at least in its current
> > form.  IIUC it connects multiple hist entries using a list head and
> > create a dummy entry in the leader if need be.  But it didn't handle
> > non-leader entries so it's hard to tell which is which if less entries
> > are present only.  For example consider following case:

> >     leader          member1         member2
> >     A               A               A
> >     B
> >                     C
> >                                     D

> > where leader, member1 and member2 are evsel/hists and A, B, C and D are
> > hist entries.  After 'linking' the entries the leader will have
> > following linkage:

> >     leader
> >     A       ->      A       ->      A
> >     B
> >     C (dummy) ->    C
> >     D (dummy)               ->      D

> > In this case, for entry A the leader can determine which entry came from
> > which hists by looking its order in the list.  For entry B the leader
> > can use zero value for them since the list is empty.  However for
> > entries C and D, it cannot know which one is the right hists unless it
> > records a hist index or creates dummy entry and insert it in a correct
> > order (looks far from an optimal solution).  Am I missing something?

> there's hists pointer in hist_entry if that's what you look for

And from there to evsel->idx. In your patchset you even introduce
hists_2_evsel(), right?

- Arnaldo
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