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    perf report: Implement initial UI using newt · f9224c5c
    Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo authored
    Newt has widespread availability and provides a rather simple
    API as can be seen by the size of this patch.
    
    The work needed to support it will benefit other frontends too.
    
    In this initial patch it just checks if the output is a tty, if
    not it falls back to the previous behaviour, also if
    newt-devel/libnewt-dev is not installed the previous behaviour
    is maintaned.
    
    Pressing enter on a symbol will annotate it, ESC in the
    annotation window will return to the report symbol list.
    
    More work will be done to remove the special casing in
    color_fprintf, stop using fmemopen/FILE in the printing of
    hist_entries, etc.
    
    Also the annotation doesn't need to be done via spawning "perf
    annotate" and then browsing its output, we can do better by
    calling directly the builtin-annotate.c functions, that would
    then be moved to tools/perf/util/annotate.c and shared with perf
    top, etc
    
    But lets go by baby steps, this patch already improves perf
    usability by allowing to quickly do annotations on symbols from
    the report screen and provides a first experimentation with
    libnewt/TUI integration of tools.
    
    Tested on RHEL5 and Fedora12 X86_64 and on Debian PARISC64 to
    browse a perf.data file collected on a Fedora12 x86_64 box.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
    Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
    Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
    Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
    Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
    Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
    LKML-Reference: <1268349164-5822-5-git-send-email-acme@infradead.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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