perf pmu: To info add event_type_desc

All PMU events are assumed to be "Kernel PMU event", however, this
isn't true for fake PMUs and won't be true with the addition of more
software PMUs. Make the PMU's type description name configurable -
largely for printing callbacks.

Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <[email protected]>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Cc: Ravi Bangoria <[email protected]>
Cc: Sandipan Das <[email protected]>
Cc: Mark Rutland <[email protected]>
Cc: Yang Jihong <[email protected]>
Cc: Dominique Martinet <[email protected]>
Cc: Clément Le Goffic <[email protected]>
Cc: Colin Ian King <[email protected]>
Cc: Howard Chu <[email protected]>
Cc: Ze Gao <[email protected]>
Cc: Yicong Yang <[email protected]>
Cc: Changbin Du <[email protected]>
Cc: Junhao He <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <[email protected]>
Cc: Weilin Wang <[email protected]>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <[email protected]>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <[email protected]>
Cc: Will Deacon <[email protected]>
Cc: James Clark <[email protected]>
Cc: Mike Leach <[email protected]>
Cc: Jing Zhang <[email protected]>
Cc: Leo Yan <[email protected]>
Cc: Oliver Upton <[email protected]>
Cc: Benjamin Gray <[email protected]>
Cc: Andi Kleen <[email protected]>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <[email protected]>
Cc: Kan Liang <[email protected]>
Cc: Athira Jajeev <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: Sun Haiyong <[email protected]>
Cc: Tiezhu Yang <[email protected]>
Cc: Xu Yang <[email protected]>
Cc: John Garry <[email protected]>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
Cc: Veronika Molnarova <[email protected]>
Cc: Dr. David Alan Gilbert <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>

3 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/tools/perf/util/pmu.c b/tools/perf/util/pmu.c
index 2d85c4482f5e..61bdda01a05a 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/pmu.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/pmu.c
@@ -1856,6 +1856,7 @@ int perf_pmu__for_each_event(struct perf_pmu *pmu, bool skip_duplicate_pmus,
 	struct perf_pmu_alias *event;
 	struct pmu_event_info info = {
 		.pmu = pmu,
+		.event_type_desc = "Kernel PMU event",
 	};
 	int ret = 0;
 	struct strbuf sb;
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/pmu.h b/tools/perf/util/pmu.h
index d6f702e55a05..4397c48ad569 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/pmu.h
+++ b/tools/perf/util/pmu.h
@@ -194,6 +194,7 @@ struct pmu_event_info {
 	const char *encoding_desc;
 	const char *topic;
 	const char *pmu_name;
+	const char *event_type_desc;
 	const char *str;
 	bool deprecated;
 };
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/pmus.c b/tools/perf/util/pmus.c
index 7e201e422812..52109af5f2f1 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/pmus.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/pmus.c
@@ -371,6 +371,7 @@ struct sevent {
 	const char *encoding_desc;
 	const char *topic;
 	const char *pmu_name;
+	const char *event_type_desc;
 	bool deprecated;
 };
 
@@ -444,6 +445,7 @@ static int perf_pmus__print_pmu_events__callback(void *vstate,
 	COPY_STR(encoding_desc);
 	COPY_STR(topic);
 	COPY_STR(pmu_name);
+	COPY_STR(event_type_desc);
 #undef COPY_STR
 	s->deprecated = info->deprecated;
 	state->index++;
@@ -498,7 +500,7 @@ void perf_pmus__print_pmu_events(const struct print_callbacks *print_cb, void *p
 				aliases[j].alias,
 				aliases[j].scale_unit,
 				aliases[j].deprecated,
-				"Kernel PMU event",
+				aliases[j].event_type_desc,
 				aliases[j].desc,
 				aliases[j].long_desc,
 				aliases[j].encoding_desc);
@@ -511,6 +513,7 @@ free:
 		zfree(&aliases[j].encoding_desc);
 		zfree(&aliases[j].topic);
 		zfree(&aliases[j].pmu_name);
+		zfree(&aliases[j].event_type_desc);
 	}
 	if (printed && pager_in_use())
 		printf("\n");