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authorAdrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>2013-12-11 16:36:29 +0400
committerArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>2013-12-13 17:30:20 +0400
commitc09ec622629eeb4b7877646a42852e7156363425 (patch)
tree02c90a8cb6a9e74ef5367c9b183ad1591f18ab9d /tools/perf
parentd645c442e68d24e64c46845bc8bb5d5a0a70b249 (diff)
downloadlinux-c09ec622629eeb4b7877646a42852e7156363425.tar.xz
perf evlist: Add can_select_event() method
Add a function to determine whether an event can be selected. This function is needed to allow a tool to automatically select additional events, but only if they are available. Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1386765443-26966-18-git-send-email-alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'tools/perf')
-rw-r--r--tools/perf/util/evlist.h2
-rw-r--r--tools/perf/util/record.c37
2 files changed, 39 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/evlist.h b/tools/perf/util/evlist.h
index 649d6ea98a84..8a04aae95a18 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/evlist.h
+++ b/tools/perf/util/evlist.h
@@ -193,4 +193,6 @@ static inline void perf_mmap__write_tail(struct perf_mmap *md,
pc->data_tail = tail;
}
+bool perf_evlist__can_select_event(struct perf_evlist *evlist, const char *str);
+
#endif /* __PERF_EVLIST_H */
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/record.c b/tools/perf/util/record.c
index c8845b107f60..e5104538c354 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/record.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/record.c
@@ -177,3 +177,40 @@ int perf_record_opts__config(struct perf_record_opts *opts)
{
return perf_record_opts__config_freq(opts);
}
+
+bool perf_evlist__can_select_event(struct perf_evlist *evlist, const char *str)
+{
+ struct perf_evlist *temp_evlist;
+ struct perf_evsel *evsel;
+ int err, fd, cpu;
+ bool ret = false;
+
+ temp_evlist = perf_evlist__new();
+ if (!temp_evlist)
+ return false;
+
+ err = parse_events(temp_evlist, str);
+ if (err)
+ goto out_delete;
+
+ evsel = perf_evlist__last(temp_evlist);
+
+ if (!evlist || cpu_map__empty(evlist->cpus)) {
+ struct cpu_map *cpus = cpu_map__new(NULL);
+
+ cpu = cpus ? cpus->map[0] : 0;
+ cpu_map__delete(cpus);
+ } else {
+ cpu = evlist->cpus->map[0];
+ }
+
+ fd = sys_perf_event_open(&evsel->attr, -1, cpu, -1, 0);
+ if (fd >= 0) {
+ close(fd);
+ ret = true;
+ }
+
+out_delete:
+ perf_evlist__delete(temp_evlist);
+ return ret;
+}