Command perf kvm diff is used to diff perf.data.host and perf.data.guest by default currently. But it is not a good default behavior.
Example: # perf kvm --guestkallsyms /home/kallsyms --guestmodules /home/modules record -a sleep 1 [ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ] [ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.669 MB perf.data.guest (~29207 samples) ] # perf kvm --guestkallsyms /home/kallsyms --guestmodules /home/modules record -a sleep 1 [ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ] [ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.669 MB perf.data.guest (~29207 samples) ] # perf kvm --guestkallsyms /home/kallsyms --guestmodules /home/modules diff failed to open perf.data.host: No such file or directory Failed to open perf.data.host We should keep the style of 'perf kvm diff' same with 'perf diff'. It is used to diff files with same type but captured in different times, perf.data and perf.data.old. So we need to make perf kvm diff to diff perf.data.guest and perf.data.guest.old as a default behavior. What's worse, as we have changed the behaviors of perf kvm record, we can not get a perf.data.host easily. We have to use a --no-guest to get a perf.data.host, it means we use perf.data.host as a default input in 'perf kvm diff' is an odd design. This patch remove the hard coding of default filenames in builtin-diff.c, and generate the suitable filename from current options in perf kvm diff command. It makes the default behavior of perf kvm diff be more valuable. Verification: # perf kvm --guestkallsyms /home/kallsyms --guestmodules /home/modules record -a sleep 1 [ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ] [ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.669 MB perf.data.guest (~29207 samples) ] # perf kvm --guestkallsyms /home/kallsyms --guestmodules /home/modules record -a sleep 1 [ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ] [ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.669 MB perf.data.guest (~29207 samples) ] # perf kvm --guestkallsyms /home/kallsyms --guestmodules /home/modules diff # Event 'cycles' # # Baseline Delta Shared Object Symbol # ........ ....... ....................... ....................................... # 92.00% [guest.kernel.kallsyms] [g] rb_insert_color 7.51% [guest.kernel.kallsyms] [g] smp_apic_timer_interrupt 0.48% +0.60% [guest.kernel.kallsyms] [g] apic_timer_interrupt +16.35% [guest.kernel.kallsyms] [g] kvm_clock_get_cycles +82.56% [guest.kernel.kallsyms] [g] irqtime_account_process_tick.isra.2 Signed-off-by: Dongsheng Yang <yangds.f...@cn.fujitsu.com> --- tools/perf/builtin-diff.c | 25 +++++++++++++++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 23 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-diff.c b/tools/perf/builtin-diff.c index 2a85cc9..a1d59d8 100644 --- a/tools/perf/builtin-diff.c +++ b/tools/perf/builtin-diff.c @@ -17,6 +17,7 @@ #include "util/symbol.h" #include "util/util.h" #include "util/data.h" +#include "linux/string.h" #include <stdlib.h> #include <math.h> @@ -1001,8 +1002,28 @@ static int data_init(int argc, const char **argv) use_default = false; } } else if (perf_guest) { - defaults[0] = "perf.data.host"; - defaults[1] = "perf.data.guest"; + char *file_name; + int len, ret; + + file_name = strdup(get_filename_for_perf_kvm()); + if (!file_name) { + pr_err("Failed to allocate memory for filename\n"); + return -ENOMEM; + } + + defaults[0] = strdup(file_name); + if (!defaults[0]) { + pr_err("Failed to allocate memory for defaults[0]\n"); + return -ENOMEM; + } + + len = strlen(file_name); + ret = str_append(&file_name, &len, ".old"); + if (ret) { + pr_err("Failed to allocate memory for defaults[1]\n"); + return -ENOMEM; + } + defaults[1] = file_name; } if (sort_compute >= (unsigned int) data__files_cnt) { -- 1.8.2.1 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/