Re: [PATCH RFC 4/9] perf jevents: Add sys_events_find_events_table()

From: Ian Rogers
Date: Wed Jul 19 2023 - 11:26:04 EST


On Tue, Jul 18, 2023 at 2:32 AM John Garry <john.g.garry@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On 17/07/2023 22:39, Ian Rogers wrote:
> > On Mon, Jul 17, 2023 at 12:41 AM John Garry<john.g.garry@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> On 14/07/2023 16:55, Ian Rogers wrote:
> >>> In this
> >>> series my main concern was in the changes of the event lookup and
> >>> having implied PMUs. You mentioned doing these changes so I was
> >>> waiting for a v2.
> >> OK, fine, I can look to do this now.
>
> I was thinking about this a little further. So you suggest that the
> metric expression contains PMU name per term, like
> "cpu_atom@instructions@ / cpu_atom@cycles@" - how would/could this work
> for PMUs with more complex naming, like the form hisi_siclXXX_cpa_YYY?
> Would we use the "Unit" expression for the metric name, like
> "@hisi_sicl,cpa@event_foo"?

How does this work for events? The "@hisi_sicl,cpa@event_foo" looks
strange, shouldn't it be "hisi_sicl,cpa@event_foo@" but then hisi_sicl
looks like an event name.

>
> >>
> >> BTW, which git repo/branch do you guys use for dev? I thought that it
> >> would be acme git, but Namhyung says "We moved to new repos from acme to
> >> perf/perf-tools and perf/perf-tools-next" - where is repo "perf"?
> > Current development is here now:
> > https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/perf/perf-tools-next.git/log/?h=perf-tools-next__;!!ACWV5N9M2RV99hQ!OQDHOClSjd6nVZhmgzrK3RwzXuQpP54QhqyIKpITa_MFD4PLdS7yPYSnvInFja9nrFx9Sd-UnlsJ6XUqAh4$
>
> Can that be added to the MAINTAINERS file? I suppose it is ok under
> "PERFORMANCE EVENTS SUBSYTEM", since the two would-be git repos listed
> under that same entry would be pretty obvious in purpose.

Arnaldo could you take a look at doing this?

Thanks,
Ian

> Cheers,
> John
>