perf list: Support long jevents descriptions

Previously we were dropping the useful longer descriptions that some
events have in the event list completely. This patch makes them appear with
perf list.

Old perf list:

baclears:
  baclears.all
       [Counts the number of baclears]

vs new:

perf list -v:
...
baclears:
  baclears.all
       [The BACLEARS event counts the number of times the front end is
        resteered, mainly when the Branch Prediction Unit cannot provide
        a correct prediction and this is corrected by the Branch Address
        Calculator at the front end. The BACLEARS.ANY event counts the
        number of baclears for any type of branch]

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Madhavan Srinivasan <maddy@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1473978296-20712-13-git-send-email-sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

1 files changed, 11 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-list.c b/tools/perf/builtin-list.c
index b14cb162f841..ba9322ff858b 100644
--- a/tools/perf/builtin-list.c
+++ b/tools/perf/builtin-list.c
@@ -22,14 +22,17 @@ int cmd_list(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix __maybe_unused)
 {
 	int i;
 	bool raw_dump = false;
+	bool long_desc_flag = false;
 	struct option list_options[] = {
 		OPT_BOOLEAN(0, "raw-dump", &raw_dump, "Dump raw events"),
 		OPT_BOOLEAN('d', "desc", &desc_flag,
 			    "Print extra event descriptions. --no-desc to not print."),
+		OPT_BOOLEAN('v', "long-desc", &long_desc_flag,
+			    "Print longer event descriptions."),
 		OPT_END()
 	};
 	const char * const list_usage[] = {
-		"perf list [--no-desc] [hw|sw|cache|tracepoint|pmu|sdt|event_glob]",
+		"perf list [<options>] [hw|sw|cache|tracepoint|pmu|sdt|event_glob]",
 		NULL
 	};
 
@@ -44,7 +47,7 @@ int cmd_list(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix __maybe_unused)
 		printf("\nList of pre-defined events (to be used in -e):\n\n");
 
 	if (argc == 0) {
-		print_events(NULL, raw_dump, !desc_flag);
+		print_events(NULL, raw_dump, !desc_flag, long_desc_flag);
 		return 0;
 	}
 
@@ -65,14 +68,16 @@ int cmd_list(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix __maybe_unused)
 			 strcmp(argv[i], "hwcache") == 0)
 			print_hwcache_events(NULL, raw_dump);
 		else if (strcmp(argv[i], "pmu") == 0)
-			print_pmu_events(NULL, raw_dump, !desc_flag);
+			print_pmu_events(NULL, raw_dump, !desc_flag,
+						long_desc_flag);
 		else if (strcmp(argv[i], "sdt") == 0)
 			print_sdt_events(NULL, NULL, raw_dump);
 		else if ((sep = strchr(argv[i], ':')) != NULL) {
 			int sep_idx;
 
 			if (sep == NULL) {
-				print_events(argv[i], raw_dump, !desc_flag);
+				print_events(argv[i], raw_dump, !desc_flag,
+							long_desc_flag);
 				continue;
 			}
 			sep_idx = sep - argv[i];
@@ -94,7 +99,8 @@ int cmd_list(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix __maybe_unused)
 			print_symbol_events(s, PERF_TYPE_SOFTWARE,
 					    event_symbols_sw, PERF_COUNT_SW_MAX, raw_dump);
 			print_hwcache_events(s, raw_dump);
-			print_pmu_events(s, raw_dump, !desc_flag);
+			print_pmu_events(s, raw_dump, !desc_flag,
+						long_desc_flag);
 			print_tracepoint_events(NULL, s, raw_dump);
 			print_sdt_events(NULL, s, raw_dump);
 			free(s);