Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] perf tools: ARM SPE code cleanup

From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
Date: Tue Jul 28 2020 - 07:42:39 EST


Em Mon, Jul 27, 2020 at 02:34:36PM -0600, Mathieu Poirier escreveu:
> On Fri, Jul 24, 2020 at 03:11:11PM +0800, Wei Li wrote:
> > - Firstly, the function auxtrace_record__init() will be invoked only
> > once, the variable "arm_spe_pmus" will not be used afterwards, thus
> > we don't need to check "arm_spe_pmus" is NULL or not;
> > - Another reason is, even though SPE is micro-architecture dependent,
> > but so far it only supports "statistical-profiling-extension-v1" and
> > we have no chance to use multiple SPE's PMU events in Perf command.
>
> I find the above changelog somewhat out of touch with the patch itself. The
> only thing that is happening here is the removal of a useless check and a fix
> for a memory leak.
>
> Once again whether Arnaldo wants to make the changes by hand or not you may have
> to resubmit.

I'll fix it now, thanks for reviewing.

- Arnaldo

> Reviewed-by: Mathieu Poirier <mathieu.poirier@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> >
> > So remove the useless check code to make it clear.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Wei Li <liwei391@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > tools/perf/arch/arm/util/auxtrace.c | 9 ++++-----
> > 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/tools/perf/arch/arm/util/auxtrace.c b/tools/perf/arch/arm/util/auxtrace.c
> > index 28a5d0c18b1d..b187bddbd01a 100644
> > --- a/tools/perf/arch/arm/util/auxtrace.c
> > +++ b/tools/perf/arch/arm/util/auxtrace.c
> > @@ -57,17 +57,15 @@ struct auxtrace_record
> > struct evsel *evsel;
> > bool found_etm = false;
> > struct perf_pmu *found_spe = NULL;
> > - static struct perf_pmu **arm_spe_pmus = NULL;
> > - static int nr_spes = 0;
> > + struct perf_pmu **arm_spe_pmus = NULL;
> > + int nr_spes = 0;
> > int i = 0;
> >
> > if (!evlist)
> > return NULL;
> >
> > cs_etm_pmu = perf_pmu__find(CORESIGHT_ETM_PMU_NAME);
> > -
> > - if (!arm_spe_pmus)
> > - arm_spe_pmus = find_all_arm_spe_pmus(&nr_spes, err);
> > + arm_spe_pmus = find_all_arm_spe_pmus(&nr_spes, err);
> >
> > evlist__for_each_entry(evlist, evsel) {
> > if (cs_etm_pmu &&
> > @@ -84,6 +82,7 @@ struct auxtrace_record
> > }
> > }
> > }
> > + free(arm_spe_pmus);
> >
> > if (found_etm && found_spe) {
> > pr_err("Concurrent ARM Coresight ETM and SPE operation not currently supported\n");
> > --
> > 2.17.1
> >

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- Arnaldo