Re: [PATCH] perf/core: move all of the pmu devices into their own location

[Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Tue, Feb 04, 2025 at 01:23:51PM -0500, Liang, Kan wrote:
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> On 2025-02-04 11:28 a.m., Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > On Tue, Feb 04, 2025 at 09:06:18AM -0500, Liang, Kan wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >> On 2025-02-04 5:16 a.m., Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> >>> On Tue, Feb 04, 2025 at 09:41:03AM +0200, Alexander Shishkin wrote:
> >>>> Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> writes:
> >>>>
> >>>>> In sysfs, for some reason, all pmu devices seem to show up in the "root"
> >>>>> of /sys/devices/ making for a confusing mess as these devices are not
> >>>>> really at the root of the system at all.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Create a fake root devices, "pmu_bus" and place them all under there if
> >>>>> they do not already have a parent device set, cleaning up sysfs to look
> >>>>> more sane.
> >>>>
> >>>> Yeah, so what happens to the userspace that uses them via /sys/devices/*
> >>>> directly? Even I have scripts that do that.
> >>>
> >>> You should never be doing that, as you have no idea what type of devices
> >>> are in that location in the tree.  You should be doing what the
> >>> documentation says to do, and look in /sys/bus/event_source/devices/
> >>> instead.  That didn't change here.
> >>>
> >>
> >> Not just the script, the /sys/devices/ is also used in the current perf
> >> tool. For example,
> >> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/tools/perf/util/mem-events.c#n192
> >>
> >> And the comments and document in the perf tool.
> >> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/tools/perf/util/pmu.c#n39
> > 
> > Note, this file looks to work properly, it's just the comment that is
> > incorrect.
> > 
> > Any hints on what perf command or test I should run to verify I did get
> > this all right?
> 
> For the perf tool, "perf test" should be run at minimum.

Cool, I never noticed that, I'll use that to start with.

> >> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-list.txt#n191
> > 
> > I'll fix that.
> > 
> >> I think it should bring big impact for the end user, especially when
> >> they still use an older perf tool and script.
> > 
> > It seems that the majority of the perf code IS looking in the correct
> > place, just mem-events.c seemed wrong.
> > 
> 
> There should be two more.
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> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/tools/perf/builtin-stat.c#n100

But that's a cpu device, not a event_bus device, right?

Oh, no, wow, yeah, that is an event_bus device.  Now that's confusing, I
imagine the sysfs cpu authors get annoyed at that one...

> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/tools/perf/arch/x86/util/iostat.c#n35

Ah, missed that one too, thanks!

greg k-h