[PATCH] perf_counter: Improve perf stat and perf record optionparsing

From: Anton Blanchard
Date: Wed Jul 22 2009 - 09:05:02 EST



perf stat and perf record currently look for all options on the command
line. This can lead to some confusion:

# perf stat ls -l
Error: unknown switch `l'

While we can work around this by adding '--' before the command, the git
option parsing code can stop at the first non option:

# perf stat ls -l
Performance counter stats for 'ls -l':
...

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@xxxxxxxxx>
---

Index: linux.trees.git/tools/perf/builtin-record.c
===================================================================
--- linux.trees.git.orig/tools/perf/builtin-record.c 2009-07-22 22:43:35.000000000 +1000
+++ linux.trees.git/tools/perf/builtin-record.c 2009-07-22 22:43:40.000000000 +1000
@@ -664,7 +664,8 @@ int cmd_record(int argc, const char **ar
{
int counter;

- argc = parse_options(argc, argv, options, record_usage, 0);
+ argc = parse_options(argc, argv, options, record_usage,
+ PARSE_OPT_STOP_AT_NON_OPTION);
if (!argc && target_pid == -1 && !system_wide)
usage_with_options(record_usage, options);

Index: linux.trees.git/tools/perf/builtin-stat.c
===================================================================
--- linux.trees.git.orig/tools/perf/builtin-stat.c 2009-07-22 22:43:35.000000000 +1000
+++ linux.trees.git/tools/perf/builtin-stat.c 2009-07-22 22:43:40.000000000 +1000
@@ -511,7 +511,8 @@ int cmd_stat(int argc, const char **argv
{
int status;

- argc = parse_options(argc, argv, options, stat_usage, 0);
+ argc = parse_options(argc, argv, options, stat_usage,
+ PARSE_OPT_STOP_AT_NON_OPTION);
if (!argc)
usage_with_options(stat_usage, options);
if (run_count <= 0 || run_count > MAX_RUN)
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