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Date:   Mon, 2 Aug 2021 11:15:41 +0800
From:   "Jin, Yao" <yao.jin@...ux.intel.com>
To:     Riccardo Mancini <rickyman7@...il.com>
Cc:     acme@...nel.org, jolsa@...nel.org, peterz@...radead.org,
        mingo@...hat.com, alexander.shishkin@...ux.intel.com,
        Linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-perf-users@...r.kernel.org,
        ak@...ux.intel.com, kan.liang@...el.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 1/2] perf pmu: Add PMU alias support

Hi Riccardo,

On 7/30/2021 4:28 PM, Riccardo Mancini wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> thanks for your quick revision.
> 
> There is still one small memory issue with a variable not being freed, which I
> noticed when running this patchset together with John's patchset.
> 
> On Fri, 2021-07-30 at 15:07 +0800, Jin Yao wrote:
>> From: Kan Liang <kan.liang@...ux.intel.com>
>>
>> A perf uncore PMU may have two PMU names, a real name and an alias. The
>> alias is exported at /sys/bus/event_source/devices/uncore_*/alias.
>> The perf tool should support the alias as well.
>>
>> Add alias_name in the struct perf_pmu to store the alias. For the PMU
>> which doesn't have an alias. It's NULL.
>>
>> Introduce two X86 specific functions to retrieve the real name and the
>> alias separately.
>>
>> Only go through the sysfs to retrieve the mapping between the real name
>> and the alias once. The result is cached in a list, uncore_pmu_list.
>>
>> Nothing changed for the other ARCHs.
>>
>> With the patch, the perf tool can monitor the PMU with either the real
>> name or the alias.
>>
>> Use the real name,
>>   $ perf stat -e uncore_cha_2/event=1/ -x,
>>     4044879584,,uncore_cha_2/event=1/,2528059205,100.00,,
>>
>> Use the alias,
>>   $ perf stat -e uncore_type_0_2/event=1/ -x,
>>     3659675336,,uncore_type_0_2/event=1/,2287306455,100.00,,
>>
>> Co-developed-by: Jin Yao <yao.jin@...ux.intel.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Jin Yao <yao.jin@...ux.intel.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Kan Liang <kan.liang@...ux.intel.com>
>> ---
>> v3:
>>   - Use fgets to read alias string from sysfs.
>>   - Resource cleanup.
>>
>> v2:
>>   - No change.
>>
>>   tools/perf/arch/x86/util/pmu.c | 129 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
>>   tools/perf/util/parse-events.y |   3 +-
>>   tools/perf/util/pmu.c          |  26 ++++++-
>>   tools/perf/util/pmu.h          |   5 ++
>>   4 files changed, 158 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
>>
> <SNIP>
>> diff --git a/tools/perf/util/pmu.c b/tools/perf/util/pmu.c
>> index 44b90d638ad5..cc9af7942e7b 100644
>> --- a/tools/perf/util/pmu.c
>> +++ b/tools/perf/util/pmu.c
>> @@ -944,13 +944,28 @@ static int pmu_max_precise(const char *name)
>>          return max_precise;
>>   }
>>   
>> -static struct perf_pmu *pmu_lookup(const char *name)
>> +char * __weak
>> +pmu_find_real_name(const char *name)
>> +{
>> +       return strdup(name);
>> +}
>> +
>> +char * __weak
>> +pmu_find_alias_name(const char *name __maybe_unused)
>> +{
>> +       return NULL;
>> +}
>> +
>> +static struct perf_pmu *pmu_lookup(const char *lookup_name)
>>   {
>>          struct perf_pmu *pmu;
>> +       char *name;
>>          LIST_HEAD(format);
>>          LIST_HEAD(aliases);
>>          __u32 type;
>>   
>> +       name = pmu_find_real_name(lookup_name);
> 
> name is not freed if one of the following checks fails.
> 
> 	/*
> 	 * The pmu data we store & need consists of the pmu
> 	 * type value and format definitions. Load both right
> 	 * now.
> 	 */
> 	if (pmu_format(name, &format))
> 		return NULL;
> 
> 	/*
> 	 * Check the type first to avoid unnecessary work.
> 	 */
> 	if (pmu_type(name, &type))
> 		return NULL;
> 
> 	if (pmu_aliases(name, &aliases))
> 		return NULL;
> 
> Thanks,
> Riccardo
> 

Thanks so much for pointing this out. I also find I need to rebase the patch because it has some 
conflicts with John's patch. I will prepare v4 (which will be based on tmp.perf/urgent).

Thanks
Jin Yao

> 
>> @@ -973,7 +988,8 @@ static struct perf_pmu *pmu_lookup(const char *name)
>>                  return NULL;
>>   
>>          pmu->cpus = pmu_cpumask(name);
>> -       pmu->name = strdup(name);
>> +       pmu->name = name;
>> +       pmu->alias_name = pmu_find_alias_name(name);
>>          pmu->type = type;
>>          pmu->is_uncore = pmu_is_uncore(name);
>>          if (pmu->is_uncore)
>> @@ -1003,7 +1019,8 @@ static struct perf_pmu *pmu_find(const char *name)
>>          struct perf_pmu *pmu;
>>   
>>          list_for_each_entry(pmu, &pmus, list)
>> -               if (!strcmp(pmu->name, name))
>> +               if (!strcmp(pmu->name, name) ||
>> +                   (pmu->alias_name && !strcmp(pmu->alias_name, name)))
>>                          return pmu;
>>   
>>          return NULL;
>> @@ -1898,6 +1915,9 @@ bool perf_pmu__has_hybrid(void)
>>   
>>   int perf_pmu__match(char *pattern, char *name, char *tok)
>>   {
>> +       if (!name)
>> +               return -1;
>> +
>>          if (fnmatch(pattern, name, 0))
>>                  return -1;
>>   
>> diff --git a/tools/perf/util/pmu.h b/tools/perf/util/pmu.h
>> index 926da483a141..f6ca9f6a06ef 100644
>> --- a/tools/perf/util/pmu.h
>> +++ b/tools/perf/util/pmu.h
>> @@ -21,6 +21,7 @@ enum {
>>   #define PERF_PMU_FORMAT_BITS 64
>>   #define EVENT_SOURCE_DEVICE_PATH "/bus/event_source/devices/"
>>   #define CPUS_TEMPLATE_CPU      "%s/bus/event_source/devices/%s/cpus"
>> +#define MAX_PMU_NAME_LEN 128
>>   
>>   struct perf_event_attr;
>>   
>> @@ -32,6 +33,7 @@ struct perf_pmu_caps {
>>   
>>   struct perf_pmu {
>>          char *name;
>> +       char *alias_name;       /* PMU alias name */
>>          char *id;
>>          __u32 type;
>>          bool selectable;
>> @@ -135,4 +137,7 @@ void perf_pmu__warn_invalid_config(struct perf_pmu *pmu,
>> __u64 config,
>>   bool perf_pmu__has_hybrid(void);
>>   int perf_pmu__match(char *pattern, char *name, char *tok);
>>   
>> +char *pmu_find_real_name(const char *name);
>> +char *pmu_find_alias_name(const char *name);
>> +
>>   #endif /* __PMU_H */
> 
> 

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