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Re: [PATCH v8 1/4] perf,kvm/{x86,s390}: Remove dependency on uapi/kvm_perf.h

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On 09/28/2015 08:51 PM, David Ahern wrote:
> On 9/28/15 9:16 AM, Scott Wood wrote:
>> On Mon, 2015-09-28 at 08:31 -0600, David Ahern wrote:
>>> On 9/28/15 7:00 AM, Alexander Yarygin wrote:
>>>>> diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-kvm.c b/tools/perf/builtin-kvm.c
>>>>> index fc1cffb..ef25fcf 100644
>>>>> --- a/tools/perf/builtin-kvm.c
>>>>> +++ b/tools/perf/builtin-kvm.c
>>>>> @@ -31,20 +31,18 @@
>>>>>    #include <math.h> 

[SNIP]

>>>>> @@ -60,7 +58,7 @@ bool exit_event_begin(struct perf_evsel *evsel,
>>>>>
>>>>>    bool kvm_entry_event(struct perf_evsel *evsel)
>>>>>    {
>>>>> - return !strcmp(evsel->name, KVM_ENTRY_TRACE);
>>>>> + return !strncmp(evsel->name, kvm_events_tp[0], 
>>>>> strlen(evsel->name));
>>>>>    }
>>>>>
>>>>>    bool exit_event_end(struct perf_evsel *evsel,
>>>
>>> I agree; don't rely on kvm_events_tp. Define KVM_ENTRY_TRACE and
>>> KVM_EXIT_TRACE like x86.
>>
>> If you mean defining them in uapi, that doesn't work for arches that 
>> have
>> multiple subarches that may have different trace events.  This patchset
>> doesn't actually implement dynamic support for the subarches, but it 
>> avoids
>> adding constants to uapi headers that only apply to one of the 
>> subarches.
>
> I don't agree on relying on kvm_events_tp[0] and [1]. If you need that 
> to be a runtime definition then change KVM_ENTRY_TRACE to const char 
> *kvm_entry_trace and s390 and other arches can have code to set 
> kvm_{entry,exit}_trace at runtime.
>

Yeah, will change them to kvm_{entry,exit}_trace, instead.

-- 
Thanks,
Hemant Kumar

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[PATCH v8 1/4] perf,kvm/{x86,s390}: Remove dependency on uapi/kvm_perf.h Hemant Kumar <hemant@linux.vnet.ibm.com> - 2015-09-25 08:20 +0200
  [PATCH v8 2/4] perf,kvm/{x86,s390}: Remove const from kvm_events_tp Hemant Kumar <hemant@linux.vnet.ibm.com> - 2015-09-25 08:20 +0200
  [PATCH v8 3/4] perf,kvm/powerpc: Port perf kvm stat to powerpc Hemant Kumar <hemant@linux.vnet.ibm.com> - 2015-09-25 08:20 +0200
  [PATCH v8 4/4] perf,kvm/powerpc: Add support for HCALL reasons Hemant Kumar <hemant@linux.vnet.ibm.com> - 2015-09-25 08:20 +0200
  Re: [PATCH v8 1/4] perf,kvm/{x86,s390}: Remove dependency on uapi/kvm_perf.h Alexander Yarygin <yarygin@linux.vnet.ibm.com> - 2015-09-28 15:10 +0200
    Re: [PATCH v8 1/4] perf,kvm/{x86,s390}: Remove dependency on  uapi/kvm_perf.h David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> - 2015-09-28 16:40 +0200
      Re: [PATCH v8 1/4] perf,kvm/{x86,s390}: Remove dependency on  uapi/kvm_perf.h David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> - 2015-09-28 17:30 +0200
        Re: [PATCH v8 1/4] perf,kvm/{x86,s390}: Remove dependency on uapi/kvm_perf.h Hemant Kumar <hemant@linux.vnet.ibm.com> - 2015-09-30 20:20 +0200
    Re: [PATCH v8 1/4] perf,kvm/{x86,s390}: Remove dependency on uapi/kvm_perf.h Hemant Kumar <hemant@linux.vnet.ibm.com> - 2015-09-30 20:20 +0200

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