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-rw-r--r--tools/perf/builtin-config.c38
-rw-r--r--tools/perf/util/config.h1
2 files changed, 39 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-config.c b/tools/perf/builtin-config.c
index 2e8363778935..45b5312fbe83 100644
--- a/tools/perf/builtin-config.c
+++ b/tools/perf/builtin-config.c
@@ -154,6 +154,44 @@ static int parse_config_arg(char *arg, char **var, char **value)
return 0;
}
+int perf_config__set_variable(const char *var, const char *value)
+{
+ char path[PATH_MAX];
+ char *user_config = mkpath(path, sizeof(path), "%s/.perfconfig", getenv("HOME"));
+ const char *config_filename;
+ struct perf_config_set *set;
+ int ret = -1;
+
+ if (use_system_config)
+ config_exclusive_filename = perf_etc_perfconfig();
+ else if (use_user_config)
+ config_exclusive_filename = user_config;
+
+ if (!config_exclusive_filename)
+ config_filename = user_config;
+ else
+ config_filename = config_exclusive_filename;
+
+ set = perf_config_set__new();
+ if (!set)
+ goto out_err;
+
+ if (perf_config_set__collect(set, config_filename, var, value) < 0) {
+ pr_err("Failed to add '%s=%s'\n", var, value);
+ goto out_err;
+ }
+
+ if (set_config(set, config_filename) < 0) {
+ pr_err("Failed to set the configs on %s\n", config_filename);
+ goto out_err;
+ }
+
+ ret = 0;
+out_err:
+ perf_config_set__delete(set);
+ return ret;
+}
+
int cmd_config(int argc, const char **argv)
{
int i, ret = -1;
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/config.h b/tools/perf/util/config.h
index 9971313d61c1..a727c95cb119 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/config.h
+++ b/tools/perf/util/config.h
@@ -50,6 +50,7 @@ int perf_config_set__collect(struct perf_config_set *set, const char *file_name,
const char *var, const char *value);
void perf_config__exit(void);
void perf_config__refresh(void);
+int perf_config__set_variable(const char *var, const char *value);
/**
* perf_config_sections__for_each - iterate thru all the sections