perf annotate: Introduce --stdio-color to setup the color output mode selection
'perf annotate --stdio' will colorize entries with most hits and
possibly some other aspects of its output, but those colors gets
suppressed if we redirect the output to a non-tty, allow keeping the
colors by adding a new option, --stdio-color, now this use case will
also output escape sequences for colors:
$ perf annotate --stdio-color | more
Based-on-a-patch-by: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <[email protected]>
Cc: David Ahern <[email protected]>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <[email protected]>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <[email protected]>
Cc: Wang Nan <[email protected]>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-annotate.c b/tools/perf/builtin-annotate.c
index b15e768..9c1034d 100644
--- a/tools/perf/builtin-annotate.c
+++ b/tools/perf/builtin-annotate.c
@@ -339,6 +339,9 @@
"Show event group information together"),
OPT_BOOLEAN(0, "show-total-period", &symbol_conf.show_total_period,
"Show a column with the sum of periods"),
+ OPT_CALLBACK_DEFAULT(0, "stdio-color", NULL, "mode",
+ "'always' (default), 'never' or 'auto' only applicable to --stdio mode",
+ stdio__config_color, "always"),
OPT_END()
};
int ret = hists__init();
