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author | Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com> | 2022-01-05 07:13:04 +0100 |
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committer | Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> | 2022-01-12 18:28:21 +0100 |
commit | 818ab78c03aad94fabc18d386e9c73b539a1f447 (patch) | |
tree | 05624ce1652d435b9eac6c2684a961288855c461 /tools/lib | |
parent | perf evsel: Improve error message for uncore events (diff) | |
download | linux-818ab78c03aad94fabc18d386e9c73b539a1f447.tar.xz linux-818ab78c03aad94fabc18d386e9c73b539a1f447.zip |
libperf: Add comments to 'struct perf_cpu_map'
A particular observed problem is confusing the index with the CPU value,
documentation should hopefully reduce this type of problem.
Reviewed-by: James Clark <james.clark@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: John Garry <john.garry@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Kajol Jain <kjain@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Leo Yan <leo.yan@linaro.org>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Mathieu Poirier <mathieu.poirier@linaro.org>
Cc: Mike Leach <mike.leach@linaro.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Paul Clarke <pc@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Riccardo Mancini <rickyman7@gmail.com>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Suzuki Poulouse <suzuki.poulose@arm.com>
Cc: Vineet Singh <vineet.singh@intel.com>
Cc: coresight@lists.linaro.org
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Cc: zhengjun.xing@intel.com
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220105061351.120843-2-irogers@google.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'tools/lib')
-rw-r--r-- | tools/lib/perf/include/internal/cpumap.h | 9 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/tools/lib/perf/include/internal/cpumap.h b/tools/lib/perf/include/internal/cpumap.h index 840d4032587b..4054169c12c5 100644 --- a/tools/lib/perf/include/internal/cpumap.h +++ b/tools/lib/perf/include/internal/cpumap.h @@ -4,9 +4,18 @@ #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. The indices into the cpumap are frequently used as they avoid having + * gaps if CPU numbers were used. For events associated with a pid, rather than + * a CPU, a single dummy map with an entry of -1 is used. + */ struct perf_cpu_map { refcount_t refcnt; + /** Length of the map array. */ int nr; + /** The CPU values. */ int map[]; }; |