perf tools: Support running perf binaries with a dash in their name
authorMilian Wolff <milian.wolff@kdab.com>
Mon, 11 Sep 2017 11:14:22 +0000 (13:14 +0200)
committerArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Tue, 12 Sep 2017 15:48:54 +0000 (12:48 -0300)
commit3192f1ed3dd3a6883d5ae31bf2ff69984ea0fd54
tree3c404a234102966c8e0ba5a10b2b1d795353d4e9
parentcba225d6eeaf00bd8181a851fbaa7b8716337e0b
perf tools: Support running perf binaries with a dash in their name

Previously the part behind "perf-" was interpreted as an internal perf
command. If the suffix could not be handled, the execution was stopped.
This makes it impossible to launch perf binaries that got renamed to
have the `perf-` prefix. This is e.g. the case for appimages (e.g.
"perf-x86_64.AppImage"), but would also apply to all other scenarios
where users symlink or rename perf themselves:

Status quo with the broken behavior:

  $ ln -s ./perf ./perf-custom-suffix
  $ ./perf-custom-suffix list
  cannot handle custom-suffix internally$

Also note the missing newline at the end of the error message.

With this patch applied, the above works properly:

  $ ./perf-custom-suffix list

  List of pre-defined events (to be used in -e):
  ...

Signed-off-by: Milian Wolff <milian.wolff@kdab.com>
Acked-by: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Yao Jin <yao.jin@linux.intel.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170911111422.31903-1-milian.wolff@kdab.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
tools/perf/perf.c