Re: [RFC] perf_sample_id::idx

From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
Date: Fri Aug 09 2019 - 12:04:27 EST


Em Fri, Aug 09, 2019 at 03:20:14PM +0000, Hunter, Adrian escreveu:

> It will be used for AUX area sampling. A sample will have AUX area
> data that will be queued for decoding, where there are separate queues
> for each CPU (per-cpu tracing) or task (per-thread tracing). The
> sample ID can be used to lookup 'idx' which is effectively the queue
> number.

Would be good to have this as a comment in the perf_sample_id struct
definition :-)

- Arnaldo

> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Jiri Olsa [mailto:jolsa@xxxxxxxxxx]
> > Sent: Friday, August 9, 2019 12:28 PM
> > To: Hunter, Adrian <adrian.hunter@xxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@xxxxxxxxxx>; Ingo Molnar
> > <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>; Namhyung Kim <namhyung@xxxxxxxxxx>; Alexander
> > Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>; Peter Zijlstra
> > <a.p.zijlstra@xxxxxxxxx>; Michael Petlan <mpetlan@xxxxxxxxxx>; linux-
> > kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Subject: [RFC] perf_sample_id::idx
> >
> > hi,
> > what's the perf_sample_id::idx for? It was added in here:
> > 3c659eedada2 perf tools: Add id index
> >
> > but I dont see any practical usage of it in the sources, when I remove it like
> > below, I get clean build
> >
> > any idea?
> >
> > thanks,
> > jirka
> >
> >
> > ---
> > diff --git a/tools/perf/util/event.h b/tools/perf/util/event.h index
> > 70841d115349..24b90f68d616 100644
> > --- a/tools/perf/util/event.h
> > +++ b/tools/perf/util/event.h
> > @@ -498,7 +498,7 @@ struct tracing_data_event {
> >
> > struct id_index_entry {
> > u64 id;
> > - u64 idx;
> > + u64 idx; /* deprecated */
> > u64 cpu;
> > u64 tid;
> > };
> > diff --git a/tools/perf/util/evlist.c b/tools/perf/util/evlist.c index
> > c4489a1ad6bc..e55133cacb64 100644
> > --- a/tools/perf/util/evlist.c
> > +++ b/tools/perf/util/evlist.c
> > @@ -519,11 +519,11 @@ int perf_evlist__id_add_fd(struct evlist *evlist, }
> >
> > static void perf_evlist__set_sid_idx(struct evlist *evlist,
> > - struct evsel *evsel, int idx, int cpu,
> > + struct evsel *evsel, int cpu,
> > int thread)
> > {
> > struct perf_sample_id *sid = SID(evsel, cpu, thread);
> > - sid->idx = idx;
> > +
> > if (evlist->core.cpus && cpu >= 0)
> > sid->cpu = evlist->core.cpus->map[cpu];
> > else
> > @@ -795,8 +795,7 @@ static int perf_evlist__mmap_per_evsel(struct evlist
> > *evlist, int idx,
> > if (perf_evlist__id_add_fd(evlist, evsel, cpu, thread,
> > fd) < 0)
> > return -1;
> > - perf_evlist__set_sid_idx(evlist, evsel, idx, cpu,
> > - thread);
> > + perf_evlist__set_sid_idx(evlist, evsel, cpu, thread);
> > }
> > }
> >
> > diff --git a/tools/perf/util/evsel.h b/tools/perf/util/evsel.h index
> > 3cf35aa782b9..b9d864933d75 100644
> > --- a/tools/perf/util/evsel.h
> > +++ b/tools/perf/util/evsel.h
> > @@ -23,7 +23,6 @@ struct perf_sample_id {
> > struct hlist_node node;
> > u64 id;
> > struct evsel *evsel;
> > - int idx;
> > int cpu;
> > pid_t tid;
> >
> > diff --git a/tools/perf/util/session.c b/tools/perf/util/session.c index
> > b9fe71d11bf6..2642d60aa875 100644
> > --- a/tools/perf/util/session.c
> > +++ b/tools/perf/util/session.c
> > @@ -2394,7 +2394,6 @@ int perf_event__process_id_index(struct
> > perf_session *session,
> > sid = perf_evlist__id2sid(evlist, e->id);
> > if (!sid)
> > return -ENOENT;
> > - sid->idx = e->idx;
> > sid->cpu = e->cpu;
> > sid->tid = e->tid;
> > }
> > @@ -2454,7 +2453,7 @@ int perf_event__synthesize_id_index(struct
> > perf_tool *tool,
> > return -ENOENT;
> > }
> >
> > - e->idx = sid->idx;
> > + e->idx = -1;
> > e->cpu = sid->cpu;
> > e->tid = sid->tid;
> > }

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- Arnaldo