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Date:   Tue, 22 Sep 2020 09:28:44 -0600
From:   Rob Herring <robh@...nel.org>
To:     Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...hat.com>
Cc:     Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>,
        Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
        Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...nel.org>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-arm-kernel <linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>,
        Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@...ux.intel.com>,
        Namhyung Kim <namhyung@...nel.org>,
        Raphael Gault <raphael.gault@....com>,
        Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>,
        Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@...wei.com>,
        Ian Rogers <irogers@...gle.com>,
        Honnappa Nagarahalli <honnappa.nagarahalli@....com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 05/10] libperf: Add libperf_evsel__mmap()

On Fri, Sep 18, 2020 at 8:33 AM Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...hat.com> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Sep 11, 2020 at 03:51:13PM -0600, Rob Herring wrote:
> > In order to support usersapce access, an event must be mmapped. While
> > there's already mmap support for evlist, the usecase is a bit different
> > than the self monitoring with userspace access. So let's add a new
> > perf_evsel__mmap() function to mmap an evsel. This allows implementing
> > userspace access as a fastpath for perf_evsel__read().
> >
> > The mmapped address is returned by perf_evsel__mmap() primarily for
> > users/tests to check if userspace access is enabled.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Rob Herring <robh@...nel.org>
> > ---
> > v3:
> >  - New patch split out from user access patch
> > ---
> >  tools/lib/perf/Documentation/libperf.txt |  1 +
> >  tools/lib/perf/evsel.c                   | 31 ++++++++++++++++++++++++
> >  tools/lib/perf/include/internal/evsel.h  |  2 ++
> >  tools/lib/perf/include/perf/evsel.h      |  2 ++
> >  tools/lib/perf/libperf.map               |  1 +
> >  5 files changed, 37 insertions(+)
> >
> > diff --git a/tools/lib/perf/Documentation/libperf.txt b/tools/lib/perf/Documentation/libperf.txt
> > index 0c74c30ed23a..0b4694ce42b9 100644
> > --- a/tools/lib/perf/Documentation/libperf.txt
> > +++ b/tools/lib/perf/Documentation/libperf.txt
> > @@ -136,6 +136,7 @@ SYNOPSIS
> >                         struct perf_thread_map *threads);
> >    void perf_evsel__close(struct perf_evsel *evsel);
> >    void perf_evsel__close_cpu(struct perf_evsel *evsel, int cpu);
> > +  void *perf_evsel__mmap(struct perf_evsel *evsel, size_t length);
> >    int perf_evsel__read(struct perf_evsel *evsel, int cpu, int thread,
> >                         struct perf_counts_values *count);
> >    int perf_evsel__enable(struct perf_evsel *evsel);
> > diff --git a/tools/lib/perf/evsel.c b/tools/lib/perf/evsel.c
> > index 4dc06289f4c7..99fa53dc0887 100644
> > --- a/tools/lib/perf/evsel.c
> > +++ b/tools/lib/perf/evsel.c
> > @@ -11,10 +11,12 @@
> >  #include <stdlib.h>
> >  #include <internal/xyarray.h>
> >  #include <internal/cpumap.h>
> > +#include <internal/mmap.h>
> >  #include <internal/threadmap.h>
> >  #include <internal/lib.h>
> >  #include <linux/string.h>
> >  #include <sys/ioctl.h>
> > +#include <sys/mman.h>
> >
> >  void perf_evsel__init(struct perf_evsel *evsel, struct perf_event_attr *attr)
> >  {
> > @@ -156,6 +158,35 @@ void perf_evsel__close_cpu(struct perf_evsel *evsel, int cpu)
> >       perf_evsel__close_fd_cpu(evsel, cpu);
> >  }
> >
> > +void *perf_evsel__mmap(struct perf_evsel *evsel, size_t length)
> > +{
>
> could you rather use 'int pages' insted of length as we
> do in perf_evlist__mmap, so we keep the same interface
>
>   len = (pages + 1) * page_size

Sure, but what's the reason it is pages minus 1? It seems a bit odd to
pass in 0 here to get 1 page which would be the typical usage.

Rob