perf tools: Synthesize GROUP_DESC feature in pipe mode
Stephan reported, that pipe mode does not carry the group information and thus the piped report won't display the grouped output for following command: # perf record -e '{cycles,instructions,branches}' -a sleep 4 | perf report It has no idea about the group setup, so it will display events separately: # Overhead Command Shared Object ... # ........ ............... ....................... # 6.71% swapper [kernel.kallsyms] 2.28% offlineimap libpython2.7.so.1.0 0.78% perf [kernel.kallsyms] ... Fix GROUP_DESC feature record to be synthesized in pipe mode, so the report output is grouped if there are groups defined in record: # Overhead Command Shared ... # ........................ ............... ....... # 7.57% 0.16% 0.30% swapper [kernel 1.87% 3.15% 2.46% offlineimap libpyth 1.33% 0.00% 0.00% perf [kernel ... Reported-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Tested-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Cc: David Carrillo-Cisneros <davidcc@google.com> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180712135202.14774-1-jolsa@kernel.orgSigned-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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