perf metric: Document the internal 'struct metric'

Add documentation as part of code tidying.

Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Acked-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Alexander Antonov <alexander.antonov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Andrew Kilroy <andrew.kilroy@arm.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Changbin Du <changbin.du@intel.com>
Cc: Denys Zagorui <dzagorui@cisco.com>
Cc: Fabian Hemmer <copy@copy.sh>
Cc: Felix Fietkau <nbd@nbd.name>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Jacob Keller <jacob.e.keller@intel.com>
Cc: Jiapeng Chong <jiapeng.chong@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: Jin Yao <yao.jin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Joakim Zhang <qiangqing.zhang@nxp.com>
Cc: John Garry <john.garry@huawei.com>
Cc: Kajol Jain <kjain@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Kees Kook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Nicholas Fraser <nfraser@codeweavers.com>
Cc: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
Cc: Paul Clarke <pc@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Riccardo Mancini <rickyman7@gmail.com>
Cc: Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@google.com>
Cc: ShihCheng Tu <mrtoastcheng@gmail.com>
Cc: Song Liu <songliubraving@fb.com>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Sumanth Korikkar <sumanthk@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Thomas Richter <tmricht@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Wan Jiabing <wanjiabing@vivo.com>
Cc: Zhen Lei <thunder.leizhen@huawei.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211015172132.1162559-12-irogers@google.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

1 files changed, 20 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/tools/perf/util/metricgroup.c b/tools/perf/util/metricgroup.c
index c96f9fe163f9..632867cedbae 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/metricgroup.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/metricgroup.c
@@ -117,14 +117,34 @@ struct metric_ref_node {
 	struct list_head list;
 };
 
+/**
+ * The metric under construction. The data held here will be placed in a
+ * metric_expr.
+ */
 struct metric {
 	struct list_head nd;
+	/**
+	 * The expression parse context importantly holding the IDs contained
+	 * within the expression.
+	 */
 	struct expr_parse_ctx *pctx;
+	/** The name of the metric such as "IPC". */
 	const char *metric_name;
+	/** The expression to parse, for example, "instructions/cycles". */
 	const char *metric_expr;
+	/**
+	 * The "ScaleUnit" that scales and adds a unit to the metric during
+	 * output.
+	 */
 	const char *metric_unit;
+	/** The list of metrics referenced by this one. */
 	struct list_head metric_refs;
+	/** The size of the metric_refs list. */
 	int metric_refs_cnt;
+	/**
+	 * Is there a constraint on the group of events? In which case the
+	 * events won't be grouped.
+	 */
 	bool has_constraint;
 };