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Message-Id: <20211208024607.1784932-2-irogers@google.com>
Date:   Tue,  7 Dec 2021 18:45:46 -0800
From:   Ian Rogers <irogers@...gle.com>
To:     Andi Kleen <ak@...ux.intel.com>, Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...hat.com>,
        Namhyung Kim <namhyung@...nel.org>,
        John Garry <john.garry@...wei.com>,
        Kajol Jain <kjain@...ux.ibm.com>,
        "Paul A . Clarke" <pc@...ibm.com>,
        Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...nel.org>,
        Riccardo Mancini <rickyman7@...il.com>,
        Kan Liang <kan.liang@...ux.intel.com>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
        Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>,
        Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@...ux.intel.com>,
        linux-perf-users@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Vineet Singh <vineet.singh@...el.com>,
        James Clark <james.clark@....com>,
        Mathieu Poirier <mathieu.poirier@...aro.org>,
        Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@....com>,
        Mike Leach <mike.leach@...aro.org>,
        Leo Yan <leo.yan@...aro.org>, coresight@...ts.linaro.org,
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org
Cc:     eranian@...gle.com, Ian Rogers <irogers@...gle.com>
Subject: [PATCH 01/22] libperf: Add comments to perf_cpu_map.

A particular observed problem is confusing the index with the CPU value,
documentation should hopefully reduce this type of problem.

Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@...gle.com>
---
 tools/lib/perf/include/internal/cpumap.h | 7 +++++++
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)

diff --git a/tools/lib/perf/include/internal/cpumap.h b/tools/lib/perf/include/internal/cpumap.h
index 840d4032587b..1c1726f4a04e 100644
--- a/tools/lib/perf/include/internal/cpumap.h
+++ b/tools/lib/perf/include/internal/cpumap.h
@@ -4,9 +4,16 @@
 
 #include <linux/refcount.h>
 
+/**
+ * A sized, reference counted, sorted array of integers representing CPU
+ * numbers. This is commonly used to capture which CPUs a PMU is associated
+ * with.
+ */
 struct perf_cpu_map {
 	refcount_t	refcnt;
+	/** Length of the map array. */
 	int		nr;
+	/** The CPU values. */
 	int		map[];
 };
 
-- 
2.34.1.400.ga245620fadb-goog

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