We will expand perf diff to support diff cycles of individual programs blocks, so it requires all data files having branch stacks.
This patch checks HEADER_BRANCH_STACK in header, and only set the flag has_br_stack when HEADER_BRANCH_STACK are set in all data files. Signed-off-by: Jin Yao <[email protected]> --- tools/perf/builtin-diff.c | 30 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 30 insertions(+) diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-diff.c b/tools/perf/builtin-diff.c index 6e79207..6023f8c 100644 --- a/tools/perf/builtin-diff.c +++ b/tools/perf/builtin-diff.c @@ -32,6 +32,7 @@ struct perf_diff { struct perf_time_interval *ptime_range; int range_size; int range_num; + bool has_br_stack; }; /* Diff command specific HPP columns. */ @@ -873,12 +874,41 @@ static int parse_time_str(struct data__file *d, char *abstime_ostr, return ret; } +static int check_file_brstack(void) +{ + struct data__file *d; + bool has_br_stack; + int i; + + data__for_each_file(i, d) { + d->session = perf_session__new(&d->data, false, &pdiff.tool); + if (!d->session) { + pr_err("Failed to open %s\n", d->data.path); + return -1; + } + + has_br_stack = perf_header__has_feat(&d->session->header, + HEADER_BRANCH_STACK); + perf_session__delete(d->session); + if (!has_br_stack) + return 0; + } + + /* Set only all files having branch stacks */ + pdiff.has_br_stack = true; + return 0; +} + static int __cmd_diff(void) { struct data__file *d; int ret, i; char *abstime_ostr, *abstime_tmp; + ret = check_file_brstack(); + if (ret) + return ret; + ret = abstime_str_dup(&abstime_ostr); if (ret) return ret; -- 2.7.4

