perf help: Move common_cmds into builtin-help

There's a lot of infrastructure for generating a relatively simple
array used by one function.

Move the array into the function and remove the supporting build logic.

At the same time opportunistically const-ify the array.

Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Acked-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Charlie Jenkins <charlie@rivosinc.com>
Cc: Howard Chu <howardchu95@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: James Clark <james.clark@linaro.org>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

5 files changed, 49 insertions, 133 deletions

diff --git a/tools/perf/Makefile.perf b/tools/perf/Makefile.perf
index e6895626c187..45d5a59a02cb 100644
--- a/tools/perf/Makefile.perf
+++ b/tools/perf/Makefile.perf
@@ -808,11 +808,6 @@ $(GTK_IN): FORCE prepare
 $(OUTPUT)libperf-gtk.so: $(GTK_IN) $(PERFLIBS)
 	$(QUIET_LINK)$(CC) -o $@ -shared $(LDFLAGS) $(filter %.o,$^) $(GTK_LIBS)
 
-$(OUTPUT)common-cmds.h: util/generate-cmdlist.sh command-list.txt
-
-$(OUTPUT)common-cmds.h: $(wildcard Documentation/perf-*.txt)
-	$(QUIET_GEN). util/generate-cmdlist.sh > $@+ && mv $@+ $@
-
 $(SCRIPTS) : % : %.sh
 	$(QUIET_GEN)$(INSTALL) '$@.sh' '$(OUTPUT)$@'
 
@@ -850,7 +845,7 @@ endif
 __build-dir = $(subst $(OUTPUT),,$(dir $@))
 build-dir   = $(or $(__build-dir),.)
 
-prepare: $(OUTPUT)PERF-VERSION-FILE $(OUTPUT)common-cmds.h archheaders \
+prepare: $(OUTPUT)PERF-VERSION-FILE archheaders \
 	arm64-sysreg-defs \
 	$(syscall_array) \
 	$(fs_at_flags_array) \
@@ -1054,7 +1049,7 @@ cscope:
 # However, the environment gets quite big, and some programs have problems
 # with that.
 
-check: $(OUTPUT)common-cmds.h
+check: prepare
 	if sparse; \
 	then \
 		for i in *.c */*.c; \
@@ -1297,7 +1292,7 @@ clean:: $(LIBAPI)-clean $(LIBBPF)-clean $(LIBSUBCMD)-clean $(LIBSYMBOL)-clean $(
 	$(call QUIET_CLEAN, core-progs) $(RM) $(ALL_PROGRAMS) perf perf-read-vdso32 \
 		perf-read-vdsox32 $(OUTPUT)$(LIBJVMTI).so
 	$(call QUIET_CLEAN, core-gen)   $(RM)  *.spec *.pyc *.pyo */*.pyc */*.pyo \
-		$(OUTPUT)common-cmds.h TAGS tags cscope* $(OUTPUT)PERF-VERSION-FILE \
+		TAGS tags cscope* $(OUTPUT)PERF-VERSION-FILE \
 		$(OUTPUT)FEATURE-DUMP $(OUTPUT)util/*-bison* $(OUTPUT)util/*-flex* \
 		$(OUTPUT)util/intel-pt-decoder/inat-tables.c \
 		$(OUTPUT)tests/llvm-src-{base,kbuild,prologue,relocation}.c \
diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-help.c b/tools/perf/builtin-help.c
index 7be6fb6df595..2692b2e40a23 100644
--- a/tools/perf/builtin-help.c
+++ b/tools/perf/builtin-help.c
@@ -9,7 +9,6 @@
 #include "util/strbuf.h"
 #include "builtin.h"
 #include <subcmd/exec-cmd.h>
-#include "common-cmds.h"
 #include <subcmd/parse-options.h>
 #include <subcmd/run-command.h>
 #include <subcmd/help.h>
@@ -301,16 +300,58 @@ static struct cmdnames main_cmds, other_cmds;
 
 void list_common_cmds_help(void)
 {
-	unsigned int i, longest = 0;
+	const struct cmdname_help {
+		const char *name;
+		const char *help;
+	} common_cmds[] = {
+		{"annotate", "Read perf.data (created by perf record) and display annotated code"},
+		{"archive",
+		 "Create archive with object files with build-ids found in perf.data file"},
+		{"bench", "General framework for benchmark suites"},
+		{"buildid-cache", "Manage build-id cache."},
+		{"buildid-list", "List the buildids in a perf.data file"},
+		{"c2c", "Shared Data C2C/HITM Analyzer."},
+		{"config", "Get and set variables in a configuration file."},
+		{"daemon", "Run record sessions on background"},
+		{"data", "Data file related processing"},
+		{"diff", "Read perf.data files and display the differential profile"},
+		{"evlist", "List the event names in a perf.data file"},
+		{"ftrace", "simple wrapper for kernel's ftrace functionality"},
+		{"inject", "Filter to augment the events stream with additional information"},
+		{"iostat", "Show I/O performance metrics"},
+		{"kallsyms", "Searches running kernel for symbols"},
+		{"kvm", "Tool to trace/measure kvm guest os"},
+		{"list", "List all symbolic event types"},
+		{"mem", "Profile memory accesses"},
+		{"record", "Run a command and record its profile into perf.data"},
+		{"report", "Read perf.data (created by perf record) and display the profile"},
+		{"script", "Read perf.data (created by perf record) and display trace output"},
+		{"stat", "Run a command and gather performance counter statistics"},
+		{"test", "Runs sanity tests."},
+		{"top", "System profiling tool."},
+		{"version", "display the version of perf binary"},
+	#ifdef HAVE_LIBELF_SUPPORT
+		{"probe", "Define new dynamic tracepoints"},
+	#endif /* HAVE_LIBELF_SUPPORT */
+	#ifdef HAVE_LIBTRACEEVENT
+		{"trace", "strace inspired tool"},
+		{"kmem", "Tool to trace/measure kernel memory properties"},
+		{"kwork", "Tool to trace/measure kernel work properties (latencies)"},
+		{"lock", "Analyze lock events"},
+		{"sched", "Tool to trace/measure scheduler properties (latencies)"},
+		{"timechart", "Tool to visualize total system behavior during a workload"},
+	#endif /* HAVE_LIBTRACEEVENT */
+	};
+	size_t longest = 0;
 
-	for (i = 0; i < ARRAY_SIZE(common_cmds); i++) {
+	for (size_t i = 0; i < ARRAY_SIZE(common_cmds); i++) {
 		if (longest < strlen(common_cmds[i].name))
 			longest = strlen(common_cmds[i].name);
 	}
 
 	puts(" The most commonly used perf commands are:");
-	for (i = 0; i < ARRAY_SIZE(common_cmds); i++) {
-		printf("   %-*s   ", longest, common_cmds[i].name);
+	for (size_t i = 0; i < ARRAY_SIZE(common_cmds); i++) {
+		printf("   %-*s   ", (int)longest, common_cmds[i].name);
 		puts(common_cmds[i].help);
 	}
 }
diff --git a/tools/perf/command-list.txt b/tools/perf/command-list.txt
deleted file mode 100644
index e8d2762adade..000000000000
--- a/tools/perf/command-list.txt
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,36 +0,0 @@
-#
-# List of known perf commands.
-# command name			category [deprecated] [common]
-#
-perf-annotate			mainporcelain common
-perf-archive			mainporcelain common
-perf-bench			mainporcelain common
-perf-buildid-cache		mainporcelain common
-perf-buildid-list		mainporcelain common
-perf-data			mainporcelain common
-perf-diff			mainporcelain common
-perf-c2c			mainporcelain common
-perf-config			mainporcelain common
-perf-evlist			mainporcelain common
-perf-ftrace			mainporcelain common
-perf-inject			mainporcelain common
-perf-iostat			mainporcelain common
-perf-kallsyms			mainporcelain common
-perf-kmem			mainporcelain traceevent
-perf-kvm			mainporcelain common
-perf-kwork			mainporcelain traceevent
-perf-list			mainporcelain common
-perf-lock			mainporcelain traceevent
-perf-mem			mainporcelain common
-perf-probe			mainporcelain full
-perf-record			mainporcelain common
-perf-report			mainporcelain common
-perf-sched			mainporcelain traceevent
-perf-script			mainporcelain common
-perf-stat			mainporcelain common
-perf-test			mainporcelain common
-perf-timechart			mainporcelain traceevent
-perf-top			mainporcelain common
-perf-trace			mainporcelain audit
-perf-version			mainporcelain common
-perf-daemon			mainporcelain common
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/Build b/tools/perf/util/Build
index 248ad3ac64da..4915f237ba9e 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/Build
+++ b/tools/perf/util/Build
@@ -419,20 +419,6 @@ $(OUTPUT)util/list_sort.o: ../lib/list_sort.c FORCE
 	$(call rule_mkdir)
 	$(call if_changed_dep,cc_o_c)
 
-ifdef SHELLCHECK
-  SHELL_TESTS := generate-cmdlist.sh
-  SHELL_TEST_LOGS := $(SHELL_TESTS:%=%.shellcheck_log)
-else
-  SHELL_TESTS :=
-  SHELL_TEST_LOGS :=
-endif
-
-$(OUTPUT)%.shellcheck_log: %
-	$(call rule_mkdir)
-	$(Q)$(call echo-cmd,test)$(SHELLCHECK) "$<" > $@ || (cat $@ && rm $@ && false)
-
-perf-util-y += $(SHELL_TEST_LOGS)
-
 PY_TESTS := setup.py
 ifdef MYPY
   MYPY_TEST_LOGS := $(PY_TESTS:%=%.mypy_log)
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/generate-cmdlist.sh b/tools/perf/util/generate-cmdlist.sh
deleted file mode 100755
index 6a73c903d690..000000000000
--- a/tools/perf/util/generate-cmdlist.sh
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,70 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/sh
-# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
-
-echo "/* Automatically generated by $0 */
-struct cmdname_help
-{
-    char name[16];
-    char help[80];
-};
-
-static struct cmdname_help common_cmds[] = {"
-
-sed -n -e 's/^perf-\([^ 	]*\)[ 	].* common.*/\1/p' command-list.txt |
-sort |
-while read cmd
-do
-     sed -n '
-     /^NAME/,/perf-'"$cmd"'/H
-     ${
-            x
-            s/.*perf-'"$cmd"' - \(.*\)/  {"'"$cmd"'", "\1"},/
-	    p
-     }' "Documentation/perf-$cmd.txt"
-done
-
-echo "#ifdef HAVE_LIBELF_SUPPORT"
-sed -n -e 's/^perf-\([^ 	]*\)[ 	].* full.*/\1/p' command-list.txt |
-sort |
-while read cmd
-do
-     sed -n '
-     /^NAME/,/perf-'"$cmd"'/H
-     ${
-            x
-            s/.*perf-'"$cmd"' - \(.*\)/  {"'"$cmd"'", "\1"},/
-	    p
-     }' "Documentation/perf-$cmd.txt"
-done
-echo "#endif /* HAVE_LIBELF_SUPPORT */"
-
-echo "#if defined(HAVE_LIBTRACEEVENT)"
-sed -n -e 's/^perf-\([^ 	]*\)[ 	].* audit*/\1/p' command-list.txt |
-sort |
-while read cmd
-do
-     sed -n '
-     /^NAME/,/perf-'"$cmd"'/H
-     ${
-            x
-            s/.*perf-'"$cmd"' - \(.*\)/  {"'"$cmd"'", "\1"},/
-	    p
-     }' "Documentation/perf-$cmd.txt"
-done
-echo "#endif /* HAVE_LIBTRACEEVENT */"
-
-echo "#ifdef HAVE_LIBTRACEEVENT"
-sed -n -e 's/^perf-\([^ 	]*\)[ 	].* traceevent.*/\1/p' command-list.txt |
-sort |
-while read cmd
-do
-     sed -n '
-     /^NAME/,/perf-'"$cmd"'/H
-     ${
-            x
-            s/.*perf-'"$cmd"' - \(.*\)/  {"'"$cmd"'", "\1"},/
-            p
-     }' "Documentation/perf-$cmd.txt"
-done
-echo "#endif /* HAVE_LIBTRACEEVENT */"
-echo "};"