Re: [PATCH v2 1/4] perf utils: passing pmu as a parameter to function get_cpuid_str

From: Jayachandran C
Date: Fri Apr 28 2017 - 05:08:33 EST


On Fri, Apr 28, 2017 at 10:23:44AM +0530, Ganapatrao Kulkarni wrote:
> cpuid string will not be same on all CPUs on heterogeneous
> platforms like ARM's big.LITTLE, adding provision(using pmu->cpus)
> to find cpuid string from associated CPUs of PMU CORE device.
>
> Signed-off-by: Ganapatrao Kulkarni <ganapatrao.kulkarni@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> tools/perf/arch/powerpc/util/header.c | 3 ++-
> tools/perf/arch/x86/util/header.c | 4 +++-
> tools/perf/util/header.h | 3 ++-
> tools/perf/util/pmu.c | 10 ++++++----
> 4 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/tools/perf/arch/powerpc/util/header.c b/tools/perf/arch/powerpc/util/header.c
> index 9aaa6f5..9a70cc1 100644
> --- a/tools/perf/arch/powerpc/util/header.c
> +++ b/tools/perf/arch/powerpc/util/header.c
> @@ -34,10 +34,11 @@
> }
>
> char *
> -get_cpuid_str(void)
> +get_cpuid_str(struct perf_pmu *pmu)
> {
> char *bufp;
>
> + do { if (pmu) {} } while (0);

If this is to avoid warnings, can you use __maybe_unused here?

JC.