Re: [PATCH 6/9] perf stat: Do not indent headers for JSON

[Ian Rogers]

On Mon, Nov 7, 2022 at 1:33 PM Namhyung Kim <namhyung@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Currently --metric-only with --json indents header lines.  This is not
> needed for JSON.
>
>   $ perf stat -aA --metric-only -j true
>         {"unit" : "GHz"}{"unit" : "insn per cycle"}{"unit" : "branch-misses of all branches"}
>   {"cpu" : "0", {"metric-value" : "0.101"}{"metric-value" : "0.86"}{"metric-value" : "1.91"}
>   {"cpu" : "1", {"metric-value" : "0.102"}{"metric-value" : "0.87"}{"metric-value" : "2.02"}
>   {"cpu" : "2", {"metric-value" : "0.085"}{"metric-value" : "1.02"}{"metric-value" : "1.69"}
>   ...
>
> Note that the other lines are broken JSON, but it will be handled later.
>
> Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@xxxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@xxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks,
Ian

> ---
>  tools/perf/util/stat-display.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/tools/perf/util/stat-display.c b/tools/perf/util/stat-display.c
> index 515fb6db3d67..25f67fb37f6d 100644
> --- a/tools/perf/util/stat-display.c
> +++ b/tools/perf/util/stat-display.c
> @@ -851,7 +851,7 @@ static void print_metric_headers(struct perf_stat_config *config,
>         if (prefix && !config->json_output)
>                 fprintf(config->output, "%s", prefix);
>
> -       if (!config->csv_output && !no_indent)
> +       if (!config->csv_output && !config->json_output && !no_indent)
>                 fprintf(config->output, "%*s",
>                         aggr_header_lens[config->aggr_mode], "");
>         if (config->csv_output) {
> --
> 2.38.1.431.g37b22c650d-goog
>