[PATCH v1 2/2] perf metricgroup: Don't early exit if no CPUID table exists

From: Ian Rogers

Date: Thu Feb 05 2026 - 13:36:46 EST


The failure to find a table of metrics with a CPUID shouldn't early
exit as the metric code will now also consider the default table.
When searching for a metric or metric group,
pmu_metrics_table__for_each_metric considers all tables and so the
caller doesn't need to switch the table to do this.

Fixes: c7adeb0974f1 ("perf jevents: Add set of common metrics based on default ones")
Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
tools/perf/util/metricgroup.c | 18 +++++-------------
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tools/perf/util/metricgroup.c b/tools/perf/util/metricgroup.c
index 40a1e14de418..46bf4dfeebc8 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/metricgroup.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/metricgroup.c
@@ -1562,8 +1562,6 @@ int metricgroup__parse_groups(struct evlist *perf_evlist,
{
const struct pmu_metrics_table *table = pmu_metrics_table__find();

- if (!table)
- return -EINVAL;
if (hardware_aware_grouping)
pr_debug("Use hardware aware grouping instead of traditional metric grouping method\n");

@@ -1601,22 +1599,16 @@ static int metricgroup__has_metric_or_groups_callback(const struct pmu_metric *p

bool metricgroup__has_metric_or_groups(const char *pmu, const char *metric_or_groups)
{
- const struct pmu_metrics_table *tables[2] = {
- pmu_metrics_table__find(),
- pmu_metrics_table__default(),
- };
+ const struct pmu_metrics_table *table = pmu_metrics_table__find();
struct metricgroup__has_metric_data data = {
.pmu = pmu,
.metric_or_groups = metric_or_groups,
};

- for (size_t i = 0; i < ARRAY_SIZE(tables); i++) {
- if (pmu_metrics_table__for_each_metric(tables[i],
- metricgroup__has_metric_or_groups_callback,
- &data))
- return true;
- }
- return false;
+ return pmu_metrics_table__for_each_metric(table,
+ metricgroup__has_metric_or_groups_callback,
+ &data)
+ ? true : false;
}

static int metricgroup__topdown_max_level_callback(const struct pmu_metric *pm,
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