Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 4/5] perf report: Show branch type statistics for stdio mode

From: Jiri Olsa <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2017 20:53:31 +0200

On Wed, Apr 12, 2017 at 06:21:05AM +0800, Jin Yao wrote:

SNIP

> +const char *branch_type_name(int type)
> +{
> +	const char *branch_names[PERF_BR_MAX] = {
> +		"N/A",
> +		"JCC",
> +		"JMP",
> +		"IND_JMP",
> +		"CALL",
> +		"IND_CALL",
> +		"RET",
> +		"SYSCALL",
> +		"SYSRET",
> +		"IRQ",
> +		"INT",
> +		"IRET",
> +		"FAR_BRANCH",
> +	};
> +
> +	if ((type >= 0) && (type < PERF_BR_MAX))
> +		return branch_names[type];
> +
> +	return NULL;

looks like we should add util/branch.c with above functions
and merge it with util/parse-branch-options.c

we create new file even for less code ;-)

thanks,
jirka