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Message-ID: <20200728114234.GA3328@kernel.org>
Date:   Tue, 28 Jul 2020 08:42:34 -0300
From:   Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...nel.org>
To:     Mathieu Poirier <mathieu.poirier@...aro.org>
Cc:     Wei Li <liwei391@...wei.com>, leo.yan@...aro.org,
        Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@....com>,
        Mike Leach <mike.leach@...aro.org>,
        Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>,
        Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@...ux.intel.com>,
        Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...hat.com>,
        Namhyung Kim <namhyung@...nel.org>,
        Kim Phillips <kim.phillips@....com>,
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, guohanjun@...wei.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] perf tools: ARM SPE code cleanup

Em Mon, Jul 27, 2020 at 02:34:36PM -0600, Mathieu Poirier escreveu:
> On Fri, Jul 24, 2020 at 03:11:11PM +0800, Wei Li wrote:
> > - Firstly, the function auxtrace_record__init() will be invoked only
> >   once, the variable "arm_spe_pmus" will not be used afterwards, thus
> >   we don't need to check "arm_spe_pmus" is NULL or not;
> > - Another reason is, even though SPE is micro-architecture dependent,
> >   but so far it only supports "statistical-profiling-extension-v1" and
> >   we have no chance to use multiple SPE's PMU events in Perf command.
> 
> I find the above changelog somewhat out of touch with the patch itself.  The
> only thing that is happening here is the removal of a useless check and a fix
> for a memory leak.
> 
> Once again whether Arnaldo wants to make the changes by hand or not you may have
> to resubmit.

I'll fix it now, thanks for reviewing.

- Arnaldo
 
> Reviewed-by: Mathieu Poirier <mathieu.poirier@...aro.org>
> 
> > 
> > So remove the useless check code to make it clear.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Wei Li <liwei391@...wei.com>
> > ---
> >  tools/perf/arch/arm/util/auxtrace.c | 9 ++++-----
> >  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/tools/perf/arch/arm/util/auxtrace.c b/tools/perf/arch/arm/util/auxtrace.c
> > index 28a5d0c18b1d..b187bddbd01a 100644
> > --- a/tools/perf/arch/arm/util/auxtrace.c
> > +++ b/tools/perf/arch/arm/util/auxtrace.c
> > @@ -57,17 +57,15 @@ struct auxtrace_record
> >  	struct evsel *evsel;
> >  	bool found_etm = false;
> >  	struct perf_pmu *found_spe = NULL;
> > -	static struct perf_pmu **arm_spe_pmus = NULL;
> > -	static int nr_spes = 0;
> > +	struct perf_pmu **arm_spe_pmus = NULL;
> > +	int nr_spes = 0;
> >  	int i = 0;
> >  
> >  	if (!evlist)
> >  		return NULL;
> >  
> >  	cs_etm_pmu = perf_pmu__find(CORESIGHT_ETM_PMU_NAME);
> > -
> > -	if (!arm_spe_pmus)
> > -		arm_spe_pmus = find_all_arm_spe_pmus(&nr_spes, err);
> > +	arm_spe_pmus = find_all_arm_spe_pmus(&nr_spes, err);
> >  
> >  	evlist__for_each_entry(evlist, evsel) {
> >  		if (cs_etm_pmu &&
> > @@ -84,6 +82,7 @@ struct auxtrace_record
> >  			}
> >  		}
> >  	}
> > +	free(arm_spe_pmus);
> >  
> >  	if (found_etm && found_spe) {
> >  		pr_err("Concurrent ARM Coresight ETM and SPE operation not currently supported\n");
> > -- 
> > 2.17.1
> > 

-- 

- Arnaldo