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Date:   Thu, 11 Jul 2019 03:23:15 +0100
From:   John Garry <john.garry@...wei.com>
To:     Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <arnaldo.melo@...il.com>
CC:     <peterz@...radead.org>, <mingo@...hat.com>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 1/4] perf pmu: Support more complex PMU event aliasing

On 02/07/2019 20:07, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote:
> Em Fri, Jun 28, 2019 at 10:35:49PM +0800, John Garry escreveu:
>> The jevent "Unit" field is used for uncore PMU alias definition.
>>
>> The form uncore_pmu_example_X is supported, where "X" is a wildcard,
>> to support multiple instances of the same PMU in a system.
>>
>> Unfortunately this format not suitable for all uncore PMUs; take the Hisi
>> DDRC uncore PMU for example, where the name is in the form
>> hisi_scclX_ddrcY.
>>
>> For for current jevent parsing, we would be required to hardcode an uncore
>> alias translation for each possible value of X. This is not scalable.
>>
>> Instead, add support for "Unit" field in the form "hisi_sccl,ddrc", where
>> we can match by hisi_scclX and ddrcY. Tokens  in Unit field
>> are delimited by ','.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: John Garry <john.garry@...wei.com>
>> ---
>>  tools/perf/util/pmu.c | 46 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----
>>  1 file changed, 41 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/tools/perf/util/pmu.c b/tools/perf/util/pmu.c
>> index 7e7299fee550..cfc916819c59 100644
>> --- a/tools/perf/util/pmu.c
>> +++ b/tools/perf/util/pmu.c
>> @@ -700,6 +700,46 @@ struct pmu_events_map *perf_pmu__find_map(struct perf_pmu *pmu)
>>  	return map;
>>  }
>>
>> +static bool pmu_uncore_alias_match(const char *pmu_name, const char *name)
>> +{
>> +	char *tmp, *tok, *str;
>> +	bool res;
>> +
>> +	str = strdup(pmu_name);
>> +	if (!str)
>> +		return false;
>> +
>> +	/*
>> +	 * uncore alias may be from different PMU with common prefix
>> +	 */
>> +	tok = strtok_r(str, ",", &tmp);
>
> In some places, e.g. gcc version 4.1.2:
>
>   CC       /tmp/build/perf/util/pmu.o
> cc1: warnings being treated as errors
> util/pmu.c: In function ‘pmu_lookup’:
> util/pmu.c:706: warning: ‘tmp’ may be used uninitialized in this function
> mv: cannot stat `/tmp/build/perf/util/.pmu.o.tmp': No such file or directory
>

Hi Arnaldo,

Sorry for the delayed resposne. Your fix, below, looks ok.

Regards,
John

> This silences it, adding.
>
> diff --git a/tools/perf/util/pmu.c b/tools/perf/util/pmu.c
> index 913633ae0bf8..55f4de6442e3 100644
> --- a/tools/perf/util/pmu.c
> +++ b/tools/perf/util/pmu.c
> @@ -703,7 +703,7 @@ struct pmu_events_map *perf_pmu__find_map(struct perf_pmu *pmu)
>
>  static bool pmu_uncore_alias_match(const char *pmu_name, const char *name)
>  {
> -	char *tmp, *tok, *str;
> +	char *tmp = NULL, *tok, *str;
>  	bool res;
>
>  	str = strdup(pmu_name);
>
>
>> +	if (strncmp(pmu_name, tok, strlen(tok))) {
>> +		res = false;
>> +		goto out;
>> +	}
>> +
>> +	/*
>> +	 * Match more complex aliases where the alias name is a comma-delimited
>> +	 * list of tokens, orderly contained in the matching PMU name.
>> +	 *
>> +	 * Example: For alias "socket,pmuname" and PMU "socketX_pmunameY", we
>> +	 *	    match "socket" in "socketX_pmunameY" and then "pmuname" in
>> +	 *	    "pmunameY".
>> +	 */
>> +	for (; tok; name += strlen(tok), tok = strtok_r(NULL, ",", &tmp)) {
>> +		name = strstr(name, tok);
>> +		if (!name) {
>> +			res = false;
>> +			goto out;
>> +		}
>> +	}
>> +
>> +	res = true;
>> +out:
>> +	free(str);
>> +	return res;
>> +}
>> +
>>  /*
>>   * 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
>> @@ -730,12 +770,8 @@ static void pmu_add_cpu_aliases(struct list_head *head, struct perf_pmu *pmu)
>>  			break;
>>  		}
>>
>> -		/*
>> -		 * uncore alias may be from different PMU
>> -		 * with common prefix
>> -		 */
>>  		if (pmu_is_uncore(name) &&
>> -		    !strncmp(pname, name, strlen(pname)))
>> +		    pmu_uncore_alias_match(pname, name))
>>  			goto new_alias;
>>
>>  		if (strcmp(pname, name))
>> --
>> 2.17.1
>