Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 5 Jan 2016 22:28:39 +0100 | From | Andi Kleen <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] perf, tools, stat: Force C numeric locale for CSV mode |
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On Tue, Jan 05, 2016 at 06:17:57PM -0300, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote: > Em Tue, Jan 05, 2016 at 10:05:01PM +0100, Jiri Olsa escreveu: > > On Tue, Jan 05, 2016 at 11:17:45AM -0800, Andi Kleen wrote: > > > From: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> > > > > > > Some locales print floating point numbers with a comma instead of a dot. > > > This causes problems with CSV mode because it causes extra false CSV > > > fields. Force the numeric locale to be always C in CSV mode. > > > > > > Before: > > > > > > $ LC_ALL=pl_PL.utf8 perf stat -x, true > > > 0,399472,,task-clock,399472,100,00 <---- extra bogus field > > > ... > > > > > > After: > > > $ LC_ALL=pl_PL.utf8 ./obj-perf/perf stat -x, true > > > 0.338422,,task-clock,338422,100.00 > > > > > > Originally reported in https://github.com/andikleen/pmu-tools/issues/43 > > > > > > Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> > > > > Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> > > I wonder what is that other tools do when stumbling on this, i.e. > some other tool output that produces values that have the CSV character > in it...
Proper CSV supports escaping the separator by putting the whole field into quotes. Unfortunately perf stat doesn't output proper CSV, the event fields with commas are not quoted.
I usually work around it by using -x\; instead
But the , problem should be still fixed.
> > Completely disabling the configured locale seems too harsh to me, aren't > people used to changing the csv char via some option like we have in > 'perf stat': > > -x, --field-separator > > when changing the locale from the default 'C' one? Hey, you even used it > above, but you chose a CSV char that is used in this locale, oops ;-)
It's just for numbers (LC_NUMERIC), everything else is still localized.
-Andi
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