Received-SPF: pass (google.com: domain of linux-kernel+bounces-201776-linux.lists.archive=gmail.com@vger.kernel.org designates 2604:1380:45d1:ec00::1 as permitted sender) client-ip=2604:1380:45d1:ec00::1;
Message-ID: <12c09d40-788d-4af1-9eb6-0f5699875d70@intel.com>
Date: Wed, 5 Jun 2024 08:26:50 +0300
Precedence: bulk
MIME-Version: 1.0
User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 02/16] perf auxtrace: Allow number of queues to be
 specified
To: James Clark <james.clark@arm.com>, coresight@lists.linaro.org,
 suzuki.poulose@arm.com, gankulkarni@os.amperecomputing.com,
 mike.leach@linaro.org, leo.yan@linux.dev, anshuman.khandual@arm.com
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>,
 Maxime Coquelin <mcoquelin.stm32@gmail.com>,
 Alexandre Torgue <alexandre.torgue@foss.st.com>,
 Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
 Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>,
 Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>, Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>,
 Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>, Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>,
 John Garry <john.g.garry@oracle.com>, Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>,
 linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
 linux-stm32@st-md-mailman.stormreply.com, linux-perf-users@vger.kernel.org
References: <20240604143030.519906-1-james.clark@arm.com>
 <20240604143030.519906-3-james.clark@arm.com>
Content-Language: en-US
From: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Organization: Intel Finland Oy, Registered Address: PL 281, 00181 Helsinki,
 Business Identity Code: 0357606 - 4, Domiciled in Helsinki
In-Reply-To: <20240604143030.519906-3-james.clark@arm.com>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

On 4/06/24 17:30, James Clark wrote:
> Currently it's only possible to initialize with the default number of
> queues and then use auxtrace_queues__add_event() to grow the array. But
> that's problematic if you don't have a real event to pass into that
> function yet.
> 
> The queues hold a void *priv member to store custom state, and for
> Coresight we want to create decoders upfront before receiving data, so
> add a new function that allows pre-allocating queues. One reason to do
> this is because we might need to store metadata (HW_ID events) that
> effects other queues, but never actually receive auxtrace data on that
> queue.
> 
> Signed-off-by: James Clark <james.clark@arm.com>

Acked-by: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>

Again ;-)

> ---
>  tools/perf/util/auxtrace.c | 9 +++++++--
>  tools/perf/util/auxtrace.h | 1 +
>  2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/tools/perf/util/auxtrace.c b/tools/perf/util/auxtrace.c
> index 3684e6009b63..563b6c4fca31 100644
> --- a/tools/perf/util/auxtrace.c
> +++ b/tools/perf/util/auxtrace.c
> @@ -218,15 +218,20 @@ static struct auxtrace_queue *auxtrace_alloc_queue_array(unsigned int nr_queues)
>  	return queue_array;
>  }
>  
> -int auxtrace_queues__init(struct auxtrace_queues *queues)
> +int auxtrace_queues__init_nr(struct auxtrace_queues *queues, int nr_queues)
>  {
> -	queues->nr_queues = AUXTRACE_INIT_NR_QUEUES;
> +	queues->nr_queues = nr_queues;
>  	queues->queue_array = auxtrace_alloc_queue_array(queues->nr_queues);
>  	if (!queues->queue_array)
>  		return -ENOMEM;
>  	return 0;
>  }
>  
> +int auxtrace_queues__init(struct auxtrace_queues *queues)
> +{
> +	return auxtrace_queues__init_nr(queues, AUXTRACE_INIT_NR_QUEUES);
> +}
> +
>  static int auxtrace_queues__grow(struct auxtrace_queues *queues,
>  				 unsigned int new_nr_queues)
>  {
> diff --git a/tools/perf/util/auxtrace.h b/tools/perf/util/auxtrace.h
> index 55702215a82d..8a6ec9565835 100644
> --- a/tools/perf/util/auxtrace.h
> +++ b/tools/perf/util/auxtrace.h
> @@ -521,6 +521,7 @@ int auxtrace_mmap__read_snapshot(struct mmap *map,
>  				 struct perf_tool *tool, process_auxtrace_t fn,
>  				 size_t snapshot_size);
>  
> +int auxtrace_queues__init_nr(struct auxtrace_queues *queues, int nr_queues);
>  int auxtrace_queues__init(struct auxtrace_queues *queues);
>  int auxtrace_queues__add_event(struct auxtrace_queues *queues,
>  			       struct perf_session *session,