perf config: Introduce perf_config_u8()

Introduce perf_config_u8() utility function to convert char * input into
u8 destination. We will utilize it in followup patch.

Signed-off-by: Ravi Bangoria <[email protected]>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <[email protected]>
Cc: Alexey Budankov <[email protected]>
Cc: Changbin Du <[email protected]>
Cc: Ian Rogers <[email protected]>
Cc: Jin Yao <[email protected]>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <[email protected]>
Cc: Leo Yan <[email protected]>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <[email protected]>
Cc: Song Liu <[email protected]>
Cc: Taeung Song <[email protected]>
Cc: Thomas Richter <[email protected]>
Cc: Yisheng Xie <[email protected]>
Link: http://lore.kernel.org/lkml/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>

Author: Ravi Bangoria

tools/perf/util/config.c

@@ -374,6 +374,18 @@ int perf_config_int(int *dest, const char *name, const char *value)
 	return 0;
 }
 
+int perf_config_u8(u8 *dest, const char *name, const char *value)
+{
+	long ret = 0;
+
+	if (!perf_parse_long(value, &ret)) {
+		bad_config(name);
+		return -1;
+	}
+	*dest = ret;
+	return 0;
+}
+
 static int perf_config_bool_or_int(const char *name, const char *value, int *is_bool)
 {
 	int ret;

tools/perf/util/config.h

@@ -29,6 +29,7 @@ typedef int (*config_fn_t)(const char *, const char *, void *);
 int perf_default_config(const char *, const char *, void *);
 int perf_config(config_fn_t fn, void *);
 int perf_config_int(int *dest, const char *, const char *);
+int perf_config_u8(u8 *dest, const char *name, const char *value);
 int perf_config_u64(u64 *dest, const char *, const char *);
 int perf_config_bool(const char *, const char *);
 int config_error_nonbool(const char *);