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authorArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>2019-06-06 17:03:18 -0300
committerArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>2019-06-10 16:20:11 -0300
commit36edfb940195b62c79bc8b148720c8275659a8c7 (patch)
tree15add4503dbaa4dbb31f1993de09ced0db47b69b /tools/perf
parent0ccdb8407a4660f6dbc5977bc060917d2c3e7986 (diff)
perf data: Fix perf.data documentation for HEADER_CPU_TOPOLOGY
The 'die' info isn't in the same array as core and socket ids, and we missed the 'dies' string list, that comes right after the 'core' + 'socket' id variable length array, followed by the VLA for the dies. Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Cc: Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Fixes: c9cb12c5ba08 ("perf header: Add die information in CPU topology") Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-nubi6mxp2n8ofvlx7ph6k3h6@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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-rw-r--r--tools/perf/Documentation/perf.data-file-format.txt29
1 files changed, 22 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf.data-file-format.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf.data-file-format.txt
index de78183f6881..5f54feb19977 100644
--- a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf.data-file-format.txt
+++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf.data-file-format.txt
@@ -151,20 +151,35 @@ struct {
HEADER_CPU_TOPOLOGY = 13,
-String lists defining the core and CPU threads topology.
-The string lists are followed by a variable length array
-which contains core_id, die_id (for x86) and socket_id of each cpu.
-The number of entries can be determined by the size of the
-section minus the sizes of both string lists.
-
struct {
+ /*
+ * First revision of HEADER_CPU_TOPOLOGY
+ *
+ * See 'struct perf_header_string_list' definition earlier
+ * in this file.
+ */
+
struct perf_header_string_list cores; /* Variable length */
struct perf_header_string_list threads; /* Variable length */
+
+ /*
+ * Second revision of HEADER_CPU_TOPOLOGY, older tools
+ * will not consider what comes next
+ */
+
struct {
uint32_t core_id;
- uint32_t die_id;
uint32_t socket_id;
} cpus[nr]; /* Variable length records */
+ /* 'nr' comes from previously processed HEADER_NRCPUS's nr_cpu_avail */
+
+ /*
+ * Third revision of HEADER_CPU_TOPOLOGY, older tools
+ * will not consider what comes next
+ */
+
+ struct perf_header_string_list dies; /* Variable length */
+ uint32_t die_id[nr_cpus_avail]; /* from previously processed HEADER_NR_CPUS, VLA */
};
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