linux-kernel - [PATCH v8 30/52] perf jevents: Add CheckPmu to see if a PMU is in loaded json events

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Message-ID: <20251113032040.1994090-31-irogers@google.com>
Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2025 19:20:18 -0800
From: Ian Rogers <irogers@...gle.com>
To: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@...el.com>, 
	Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@...ux.intel.com>, 
	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...nel.org>, Benjamin Gray <bgray@...ux.ibm.com>, 
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Subject: [PATCH v8 30/52] perf jevents: Add CheckPmu to see if a PMU is in
 loaded json events

CheckPmu can be used to determine if hybrid events are present,
allowing for hybrid conditional metrics/events/pmus to be premised on
the json files rather than hard coded tables.

Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@...gle.com>
---
 tools/perf/pmu-events/metric.py | 8 ++++++++
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)

diff --git a/tools/perf/pmu-events/metric.py b/tools/perf/pmu-events/metric.py
index e33e163b2815..62d1a1e1d458 100644
--- a/tools/perf/pmu-events/metric.py
+++ b/tools/perf/pmu-events/metric.py
@@ -8,10 +8,12 @@ import re
 from enum import Enum
 from typing import Dict, List, Optional, Set, Tuple, Union
 
+all_pmus = set()
 all_events = set()
 
 def LoadEvents(directory: str) -> None:
   """Populate a global set of all known events for the purpose of validating Event names"""
+  global all_pmus
   global all_events
   all_events = {
       "context\\-switches",
@@ -26,6 +28,8 @@ def LoadEvents(directory: str) -> None:
     if filename.endswith(".json"):
       try:
         for x in json.load(open(f"{directory}/{filename}")):
+          if "Unit" in x:
+            all_pmus.add(x["Unit"])
           if "EventName" in x:
             all_events.add(x["EventName"])
           elif "ArchStdEvent" in x:
@@ -36,6 +40,10 @@ def LoadEvents(directory: str) -> None:
         pass
 
 
+def CheckPmu(name: str) -> bool:
+  return name in all_pmus
+
+
 def CheckEvent(name: str) -> bool:
   """Check the event name exists in the set of all loaded events"""
   global all_events
-- 
2.51.2.1041.gc1ab5b90ca-goog