Re: [PATCH 04/10] perf, x86: Making hardware events translationsavailable in sysfs

From: Jiri Olsa
Date: Wed Jul 04 2012 - 08:01:18 EST


On Wed, Jul 04, 2012 at 12:28:58PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Wed, 2012-07-04 at 12:24 +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > On Wed, 2012-07-04 at 00:00 +0200, Jiri Olsa wrote:
> > > +static struct attribute *events_attr[] = {
> > > + &event_attr_cycles.attr,
> > > + &event_attr_instructions.attr,
> > > + &event_attr_cache_references.attr,
> > > + &event_attr_cache_misses.attr,
> > > + &event_attr_branch_instructions.attr,
> > > + &event_attr_branch_misses.attr,
> > > + &event_attr_bus_cycles.attr,
> > > + &event_attr_stalled_cycles_frontend.attr,
> > > + &event_attr_stalled_cycles_backend.attr,
> > > + &event_attr_ref_cycles.attr,
> > > + NULL,
> > > +};
> >
> > Hmm, should we do:
> >
> > if (!config)
> > return -EINVAL;
> >
> > or somesuch to clearly indicate an event isn't supported?
> >
> > Its currently a bit of a mixed bag between 0 and -1.. we might want to
> > clean that up too.
>
> Alternatively, we'd do something like:
>
> for (i = 0; events_attr[i]; i++) {
> if (x86_pmu.event_map(i))
> continue;
>
> for (j = i; events_attr[j]; j++)
> events_attr[j] = events_attr[j+1];
> }
>
> On init to filter out all unset events so they don't even show up in
> sysfs.
>
>

ok
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