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SubjectRe: [PATCH] perf pmu: Fix event list for uncore PMUs
Em Tue, Dec 21, 2021 at 10:14:42AM +0000, John Garry escreveu:
> On 21/12/2021 09:35, Jiri Olsa wrote:
> > On Tue, Dec 21, 2021 at 09:10:37AM +0000, John Garry wrote:
> > > On 21/12/2021 07:58, Jiri Olsa wrote:
> > > > > + /* Different names -> never duplicates */
> > > > > + if (strcmp(alias_a->name, alias_b->name))
> > > > > + return false;
> > > > > + if (!alias_a->pmu)
> > > > > + return true;
> > > > > + if (!alias_b->pmu)
> > > > > + return true;
> > > > nit could be:
> > > >
> > > > if (!alias_a->pmu || !alias_b->pmu)
> > > > return true;
> > > >
> > > > would be great to have more comments explaining the check
> > > >
> > >
> > > This is just a sanity check that both strings are non-NULL as we do a
> > > strcmp() next. So would this be better:
> > >
> > > if (!alias_a->pmu || !alias_b->pmu || !strcmp(alias_a->pmu, alias_b->pmu))
> > > return true
> > >
> > > ?
> > >
> > > It will spill a line.
> >
> > sure, it cought my eye because the is_cpu check later is done on
> > the same line, so I started wondering what's the difference ;-)
> >
>
> Now thinking a bit more I am not confident that this patch is a full fix.
>
> arm have heterogeneous CPU systems as well - which are not "hybrid" - and I
> need to ensure that aliasing is still working properly there, as I think
> that this following check would stop removing duplicates there:
>
> + /* uncore PMUs */
> + if (!alias_a->is_cpu && !alias_b->is_cpu)
> + return true;
> + return false;

I was about to process this, do you think its better to revert the
original patch while this gets fixed?

- Arnaldo

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