linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 0/8] Refactor cpuid and metric table lookup code

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Message-ID: <ZzdsCWpAULCe839R@x1>
Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2024 12:43:05 -0300
From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...nel.org>
To: James Clark <james.clark@...aro.org>
Cc: Ian Rogers <irogers@...gle.com>, Xu Yang <xu.yang_2@....com>,
	John Garry <john.g.garry@...cle.com>, Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/8] Refactor cpuid and metric table lookup code

On Fri, Nov 15, 2024 at 03:35:55PM +0000, James Clark wrote:
> 
> 
> On 07/11/2024 4:20 pm, Ian Rogers wrote:
> > Xu Yang <xu.yang_2@....com> reported issues with the system metric
> > lookup:
> > https://lore.kernel.org/linux-perf-users/20241106085441.3945502-1-xu.yang_2@nxp.com/
> > These patches remove a lot of the logic relating CPUIDs to PMUs so
> > that the PMU isn't part of the question when finding a metric table.
> > For time reasons, it doesn't go as far as allowing system metrics
> > without a metric table as a metric table is needed for metrics to
> > refer to other metrics, and the refactoring of that resolution is a
> > hassle.
> > 
> > Ian Rogers (7):
> >    perf header: Move is_cpu_online to numa bench
> >    perf header: Refactor get_cpuid to take a CPU for ARM
> >    perf arm64 header: Use cpu argument in get_cpuid
> >    perf header: Avoid transitive PMU includes
> >    perf header: Pass a perf_cpu rather than a PMU to get_cpuid_str
> >    perf jevents: Add map_for_cpu
> >    perf pmu: Move pmu_metrics_table__find and remove ARM override
> > 
> > Xu Yang (1):
> >    perf jevents: fix breakage when do perf stat on system metric
> > 
> >   tools/perf/arch/arm64/util/arm-spe.c     | 14 +---
> >   tools/perf/arch/arm64/util/header.c      | 73 ++++++++++-----------
> >   tools/perf/arch/arm64/util/pmu.c         | 20 ------
> >   tools/perf/arch/loongarch/util/header.c  |  4 +-
> >   tools/perf/arch/powerpc/util/header.c    |  4 +-
> >   tools/perf/arch/riscv/util/header.c      |  4 +-
> >   tools/perf/arch/s390/util/header.c       |  6 +-
> >   tools/perf/arch/x86/util/auxtrace.c      |  3 +-
> >   tools/perf/arch/x86/util/header.c        |  5 +-
> >   tools/perf/bench/numa.c                  | 53 +++++++++++++++
> >   tools/perf/builtin-kvm.c                 |  4 +-
> >   tools/perf/pmu-events/empty-pmu-events.c | 39 ++++++-----
> >   tools/perf/pmu-events/jevents.py         | 39 ++++++-----
> >   tools/perf/pmu-events/pmu-events.h       |  2 +-
> >   tools/perf/tests/expr.c                  |  5 +-
> >   tools/perf/util/env.c                    |  4 +-
> >   tools/perf/util/expr.c                   |  6 +-
> >   tools/perf/util/header.c                 | 82 ++++++++----------------
> >   tools/perf/util/header.h                 | 23 +++----
> >   tools/perf/util/pmu.c                    | 25 --------
> >   tools/perf/util/pmu.h                    |  2 -
> >   tools/perf/util/probe-event.c            |  1 +
> >   22 files changed, 189 insertions(+), 229 deletions(-)
> > 
> 
> Reviewed-by: James Clark <james.clark@...aro.org>

Thanks for reviewing James, I'm doing a round of tests to push what I
have in tmp.perf-tools-next to perf-tools-next so that it gets test
merged on linux-next and later today I'll escape from the holiday and
take a last look on this series, apply and test.

- Arnaldo