So that we can use it with strtoul, allowing string to number
conversions in filter expressions.
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@ubuntu.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Mike Christie <mchristi@redhat.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
So that the user, in an upcoming patch, can select printing it to get
the full string as used in the source code, not one with a common prefix
chopped off so as to make the output more compact.
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Luis Cláudio Gonçalves <lclaudio@redhat.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-zypczc88gzbmeqx7b372s138@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
The intention is to have this as a library, since it is not perf
specific at all.
I did the switch for the files where I'm the only contributor, with the
exception of a few lines changed by Jiri Olsa.
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-a04q6chdyjknm1hr305ulx8h@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>