Re: [PATCH v2 0/8] Refactor cpuid and metric table lookup code

From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
Date: Fri Nov 15 2024 - 11:13:07 EST


On Fri, Nov 15, 2024 at 03:35:55PM +0000, James Clark wrote:
>
>
> On 07/11/2024 4:20 pm, Ian Rogers wrote:
> > Xu Yang <xu.yang_2@xxxxxxx> reported issues with the system metric
> > lookup:
> > https://lore.kernel.org/linux-perf-users/20241106085441.3945502-1-xu.yang_2@xxxxxxx/
> > These patches remove a lot of the logic relating CPUIDs to PMUs so
> > that the PMU isn't part of the question when finding a metric table.
> > For time reasons, it doesn't go as far as allowing system metrics
> > without a metric table as a metric table is needed for metrics to
> > refer to other metrics, and the refactoring of that resolution is a
> > hassle.
> >
> > Ian Rogers (7):
> > perf header: Move is_cpu_online to numa bench
> > perf header: Refactor get_cpuid to take a CPU for ARM
> > perf arm64 header: Use cpu argument in get_cpuid
> > perf header: Avoid transitive PMU includes
> > perf header: Pass a perf_cpu rather than a PMU to get_cpuid_str
> > perf jevents: Add map_for_cpu
> > perf pmu: Move pmu_metrics_table__find and remove ARM override
> >
> > Xu Yang (1):
> > perf jevents: fix breakage when do perf stat on system metric
> >
> > tools/perf/arch/arm64/util/arm-spe.c | 14 +---
> > tools/perf/arch/arm64/util/header.c | 73 ++++++++++-----------
> > tools/perf/arch/arm64/util/pmu.c | 20 ------
> > tools/perf/arch/loongarch/util/header.c | 4 +-
> > tools/perf/arch/powerpc/util/header.c | 4 +-
> > tools/perf/arch/riscv/util/header.c | 4 +-
> > tools/perf/arch/s390/util/header.c | 6 +-
> > tools/perf/arch/x86/util/auxtrace.c | 3 +-
> > tools/perf/arch/x86/util/header.c | 5 +-
> > tools/perf/bench/numa.c | 53 +++++++++++++++
> > tools/perf/builtin-kvm.c | 4 +-
> > tools/perf/pmu-events/empty-pmu-events.c | 39 ++++++-----
> > tools/perf/pmu-events/jevents.py | 39 ++++++-----
> > tools/perf/pmu-events/pmu-events.h | 2 +-
> > tools/perf/tests/expr.c | 5 +-
> > tools/perf/util/env.c | 4 +-
> > tools/perf/util/expr.c | 6 +-
> > tools/perf/util/header.c | 82 ++++++++----------------
> > tools/perf/util/header.h | 23 +++----
> > tools/perf/util/pmu.c | 25 --------
> > tools/perf/util/pmu.h | 2 -
> > tools/perf/util/probe-event.c | 1 +
> > 22 files changed, 189 insertions(+), 229 deletions(-)
> >
>
> Reviewed-by: James Clark <james.clark@xxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks for reviewing James, I'm doing a round of tests to push what I
have in tmp.perf-tools-next to perf-tools-next so that it gets test
merged on linux-next and later today I'll escape from the holiday and
take a last look on this series, apply and test.

- Arnaldo