perf list: Sort the output of 'perf list' to view more clearly
authorYunlong Song <yunlong.song@huawei.com>
Fri, 27 Feb 2015 10:21:25 +0000 (18:21 +0800)
committerArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Fri, 27 Feb 2015 18:51:44 +0000 (15:51 -0300)
commitab0e48002db818c1937f105cd18001dfdd3ce056
tree9388426be1d155683d1b386adfa43ef552b4a9f1
parent1f924c29b5ab2257be88a2a4075d0800573d8479
perf list: Sort the output of 'perf list' to view more clearly

Sort the output according to ASCII character list (using strcmp), which
supports both number sequence and alphabet sequence.

Example:

Before this patch:

 $ perf list

 List of pre-defined events (to be used in -e):
   cpu-cycles OR cycles                               [Hardware event]
   instructions                                       [Hardware event]
   cache-references                                   [Hardware event]
   cache-misses                                       [Hardware event]
   branch-instructions OR branches                    [Hardware event]
   branch-misses                                      [Hardware event]
   bus-cycles                                         [Hardware event]
   ...                                                ...

   jbd2:jbd2_start_commit                             [Tracepoint event]
   jbd2:jbd2_commit_locking                           [Tracepoint event]
   jbd2:jbd2_run_stats                                [Tracepoint event]
   block:block_rq_issue                               [Tracepoint event]
   block:block_bio_complete                           [Tracepoint event]
   block:block_bio_backmerge                          [Tracepoint event]
   block:block_getrq                                  [Tracepoint event]
   ...                                                ...

After this patch:

 $ perf list

 List of pre-defined events (to be used in -e):
   branch-instructions OR branches                    [Hardware event]
   branch-misses                                      [Hardware event]
   bus-cycles                                         [Hardware event]
   cache-misses                                       [Hardware event]
   cache-references                                   [Hardware event]
   cpu-cycles OR cycles                               [Hardware event]
   instructions                                       [Hardware event]
   ...                                                ...

   block:block_bio_backmerge                          [Tracepoint event]
   block:block_bio_complete                           [Tracepoint event]
   block:block_getrq                                  [Tracepoint event]
   block:block_rq_issue                               [Tracepoint event]
   jbd2:jbd2_commit_locking                           [Tracepoint event]
   jbd2:jbd2_run_stats                                [Tracepoint event]
   jbd2:jbd2_start_commit                             [Tracepoint event]
   ...                                                ...

Signed-off-by: Yunlong Song <yunlong.song@huawei.com>
Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1425032491-20224-2-git-send-email-yunlong.song@huawei.com
[ Don't forget closedir({sys,evt}_dir) when handling errors ]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
tools/perf/util/parse-events.c