linux-kernel - [PATCH 06/17] perf evsel: Add comment for 'idx' member in 'struct perf_sample

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Message-Id: <20190820192733.19180-7-acme@kernel.org>
Date:   Tue, 20 Aug 2019 16:27:22 -0300
From:   Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...nel.org>
To:     Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Cc:     Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...nel.org>, Namhyung Kim <namhyung@...nel.org>,
        Clark Williams <williams@...hat.com>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-perf-users@...r.kernel.org,
        Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@...el.com>,
        Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@...ux.intel.com>,
        Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...hat.com>,
        Michael Petlan <mpetlan@...hat.com>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...hat.com>
Subject: [PATCH 06/17] perf evsel: Add comment for 'idx' member in 'struct perf_sample_id

From: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@...el.com>

The 'idx' member was added as preparation for AUX area sampling. Add a
comment to describe why.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@...el.com>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@...ux.intel.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...hat.com>
Cc: Michael Petlan <mpetlan@...hat.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@...nel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/83ff264f-84c3-5372-8976-dd9293d20c6f@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...hat.com>
---
 tools/perf/util/evsel.h | 7 +++++++
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)

diff --git a/tools/perf/util/evsel.h b/tools/perf/util/evsel.h
index 9cd6e3ae479a..efe08065838f 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/evsel.h
+++ b/tools/perf/util/evsel.h
@@ -23,6 +23,13 @@ struct perf_sample_id {
 	struct hlist_node 	node;
 	u64		 	id;
 	struct evsel		*evsel;
+       /*
+	* 'idx' will be used for AUX area sampling. A sample will have AUX area
+	* data that will be queued for decoding, where there are separate
+	* queues for each CPU (per-cpu tracing) or task (per-thread tracing).
+	* The sample ID can be used to lookup 'idx' which is effectively the
+	* queue number.
+	*/
 	int			idx;
 	int			cpu;
 	pid_t			tid;
-- 
2.21.0