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authorAdrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>2022-05-24 10:54:34 +0300
committerArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>2022-05-26 12:36:57 -0300
commitf5fb6d4efe15a2f0d2c0c175c3827ac594023996 (patch)
treebc790a1cef04d9b76cae4399d904e80a185eafa6 /tools
parentd3345fecf9e5f63be7946a1e5bf1f5695c67b445 (diff)
libperf evsel: Add comments for booleans
Add comments for 'system_wide' and 'requires_cpu' booleans Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com> Acked-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com> Acked-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Alexey Bayduraev <alexey.v.bayduraev@linux.intel.com> Cc: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Cc: Leo Yan <leo.yan@linaro.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220524075436.29144-14-adrian.hunter@intel.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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-rw-r--r--tools/lib/perf/include/internal/evsel.h10
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/tools/lib/perf/include/internal/evsel.h b/tools/lib/perf/include/internal/evsel.h
index 77fbb8b97e5c..2a912a1f1989 100644
--- a/tools/lib/perf/include/internal/evsel.h
+++ b/tools/lib/perf/include/internal/evsel.h
@@ -49,7 +49,17 @@ struct perf_evsel {
/* parse modifier helper */
int nr_members;
+ /*
+ * system_wide is for events that need to be on every CPU, irrespective
+ * of user requested CPUs or threads. Map propagation will set cpus to
+ * this event's own_cpus, whereby they will contribute to evlist
+ * all_cpus.
+ */
bool system_wide;
+ /*
+ * Some events, for example uncore events, require a CPU.
+ * i.e. it cannot be the 'any CPU' value of -1.
+ */
bool requires_cpu;
int idx;
};