Re: [PATCH v21 03/19] perf, tools: Use pmu_events table to create aliases

From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
Date: Tue Sep 27 2016 - 09:16:31 EST


Em Thu, Sep 15, 2016 at 03:24:40PM -0700, Sukadev Bhattiprolu escreveu:
> At run time (when 'perf' is starting up), locate the specific table
> of PMU events that corresponds to the current CPU. Using that table,
> create aliases for the each of the PMU events in the CPU. The use
> these aliases to parse the user specified perf event.
>
> In short this would allow the user to specify events using their
> aliases rather than raw event codes.
>
> Based on input and some earlier patches from Andi Kleen, Jiri Olsa.

this took a long time so I'll try to go chainsawing some stuff along the
way, like why introduce a function that returns an error just to ignore
it, even more using a ugly (void) cast?

- Arnaldo

> Signed-off-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>
> Changelog[v4]
> - Split off unrelated code into separate patches.
> Changelog[v3]
> - [Jiri Olsa] Fix memory leak in cpuid
> Changelog[v2]
> - [Andi Kleen] Replace pmu_events_map->vfm with a generic "cpuid".
> ---
> tools/perf/util/header.h | 1 +
> tools/perf/util/pmu.c | 61 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> 2 files changed, 62 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/tools/perf/util/header.h b/tools/perf/util/header.h
> index d306ca1..d30109b 100644
> --- a/tools/perf/util/header.h
> +++ b/tools/perf/util/header.h
> @@ -151,4 +151,5 @@ int write_padded(int fd, const void *bf, size_t count, size_t count_aligned);
> */
> int get_cpuid(char *buffer, size_t sz);
>
> +char *get_cpuid_str(void);
> #endif /* __PERF_HEADER_H */
> diff --git a/tools/perf/util/pmu.c b/tools/perf/util/pmu.c
> index 2babcdf..c842886 100644
> --- a/tools/perf/util/pmu.c
> +++ b/tools/perf/util/pmu.c
> @@ -12,6 +12,8 @@
> #include "pmu.h"
> #include "parse-events.h"
> #include "cpumap.h"
> +#include "header.h"
> +#include "pmu-events/pmu-events.h"
>
> struct perf_pmu_format {
> char *name;
> @@ -473,6 +475,62 @@ static struct cpu_map *pmu_cpumask(const char *name)
> return cpus;
> }
>
> +/*
> + * Return the CPU id as a raw string.
> + *
> + * Each architecture should provide a more precise id string that
> + * can be use to match the architecture's "mapfile".
> + */
> +char * __weak get_cpuid_str(void)
> +{
> + return NULL;
> +}
> +
> +/*
> + * From the pmu_events_map, find the table of PMU events that corresponds
> + * to the current running CPU. Then, add all PMU events from that table
> + * as aliases.
> + */
> +static int pmu_add_cpu_aliases(struct list_head *head)
> +{
> + int i;
> + struct pmu_events_map *map;
> + struct pmu_event *pe;
> + char *cpuid;
> +
> + cpuid = get_cpuid_str();
> + if (!cpuid)
> + return 0;
> +
> + i = 0;
> + while (1) {
> + map = &pmu_events_map[i++];
> + if (!map->table)
> + goto out;
> +
> + if (!strcmp(map->cpuid, cpuid))
> + break;
> + }
> +
> + /*
> + * Found a matching PMU events table. Create aliases
> + */
> + i = 0;
> + while (1) {
> + pe = &map->table[i++];
> + if (!pe->name)
> + break;
> +
> + /* need type casts to override 'const' */
> + __perf_pmu__new_alias(head, NULL, (char *)pe->name,
> + (char *)pe->desc, (char *)pe->event);
> + }
> +
> +out:
> + free(cpuid);
> + return 0;
> +}
> +
> struct perf_event_attr * __weak
> perf_pmu__get_default_config(struct perf_pmu *pmu __maybe_unused)
> {
> @@ -497,6 +555,9 @@ static struct perf_pmu *pmu_lookup(const char *name)
> if (pmu_aliases(name, &aliases))
> return NULL;
>
> + if (!strcmp(name, "cpu"))
> + (void)pmu_add_cpu_aliases(&aliases);
> +
> if (pmu_type(name, &type))
> return NULL;
>
> --
> 1.8.3.1