Re: [PATCH] perf jevents: Fix event code for events referencing std arch events

From: Jiri Olsa
Date: Mon Oct 12 2020 - 07:24:30 EST


On Mon, Oct 12, 2020 at 12:15:04PM +0100, John Garry wrote:
> On 12/10/2020 11:54, Jiri Olsa wrote:
> > > ff --git a/tools/perf/pmu-events/jevents.c b/tools/perf/pmu-events/jevents.c
> > > index 99df41a9543d..e47644cab3fa 100644
> > > --- a/tools/perf/pmu-events/jevents.c
> > > +++ b/tools/perf/pmu-events/jevents.c
> > > @@ -505,20 +505,15 @@ static char *real_event(const char *name, char *event)
> > > }
> > > static int
> > > -try_fixup(const char *fn, char *arch_std, unsigned long long eventcode,
> > > - struct json_event *je)
> > > +try_fixup(const char *fn, char *arch_std, struct json_event *je, char **event)
> > > {
> > > /* try to find matching event from arch standard values */
> > > struct event_struct *es;
> > > list_for_each_entry(es, &arch_std_events, list) {
> > > if (!strcmp(arch_std, es->name)) {
> > > - if (!eventcode && es->event) {
> > > - /* allow EventCode to be overridden */
> > > - free(je->event);
> > > - je->event = NULL;
> > > - }
> > > FOR_ALL_EVENT_STRUCT_FIELDS(TRY_FIXUP_FIELD);
> > > + *event = je->event;
> > I'm bit rusty on this code, but isn't je->event NULL at this point?
>
> je->event should be now assigned from es->event because of
> FOR_ALL_EVENT_STRUCT_FIELDS(TRY_FIXUP_FIELD):
>
> #define TRY_FIXUP_FIELD(field) do { if (es->field && !*field) {\
> *field = strdup(es->field); \
> if (!*field) \
> return -ENOMEM; \
> } } while (0)
>
> And es->event should be set.

right, thanks

Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@xxxxxxxxxx>

jirka