Thread (6 messages) 6 messages, 3 authors, 2022-05-04

Re: [PATCH 1/2] tools/perf: Add utility function to read /proc/cpuinfo for any field

From: kajoljain <hidden>
Date: 2022-05-04 13:48:00
Also in: linux-perf-users


On 4/28/22 20:38, Athira Rajeev wrote:
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/proc/cpuinfo provides information about type of processor, number
of CPU's etc. Reading /proc/cpuinfo file outputs useful information
by field name like cpu, platform, model (depending on architecture)
and its value separated by colon.

Add new utility function "cpuinfo_field" in "util/header.c" which
accepts field name as input string to search in /proc/cpuinfo content.
This returns the first matching value as resulting string. Example,
calling the function "cpuinfo_field(platform)" in powerpc returns
the platform value. This can be used to fetch processor information
from "cpuinfo" by other utilities/testcases.

Signed-off-by: Athira Rajeev <redacted>
---
 tools/perf/util/header.c | 54 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 tools/perf/util/header.h |  1 +
 2 files changed, 55 insertions(+)
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/header.c b/tools/perf/util/header.c
index a27132e5a5ef..0c8dfd0c1e78 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/header.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/header.c
@@ -983,6 +983,60 @@ static int write_dir_format(struct feat_fd *ff,
 	return do_write(ff, &data->dir.version, sizeof(data->dir.version));
 }
 
+/*
+ * Return entry from /proc/cpuinfo
+ * indicated by "search" parameter.
+ */
+char *cpuinfo_field(const char *search)
+{
+	FILE *file;
+	char *buf = NULL;
+	char *copy_buf = NULL, *p;
+	size_t len = 0;
+	int ret = -1;
+
+	if (!search)
+		return NULL;
+
+	file = fopen("/proc/cpuinfo", "r");
+	if (!file)
+		return NULL;
+
+	while (getline(&buf, &len, file) > 0) {
+		ret = strncmp(buf, search, strlen(search));
+		if (!ret)
+			break;
Hi Athira,
	Do we need ret variable. Since we will come out of the loop only when
we reach EOF.
+	}
+
+	if (ret)
+		goto done;
+
+	/*
+	 * Trim the new line and separate
+	 * value for search field from ":"
+	 * in cpuinfo line output.
+	 * Example output line:
+	 * platform : <value>
+	 */
+	copy_buf = buf;
+	p = strchr(copy_buf, ':');
+	if (p && *(p+1) == ' ' && *(p+2))

Can you try using strim instead to remove whitespaces. This function
will remove leading and trailing whitespaces from the string.
+		copy_buf = p + 2;
+	p = strchr(copy_buf, '\n');
do we need to replace `\n` here ?

+	if (p)
+		*p = '\0';
+
+	/* Copy the filtered string to buf */
+	strcpy(buf, copy_buf)
You are initializing buf to NULL. So do we need to do fclose and return
buf separately here? Can you move free(buf) in above condition and reuse
`done` code.
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+
+	fclose(file);
+	return buf;> +
+done:
+	free(buf);
+	fclose(file);
+	return NULL;
+}
 /*
  * Check whether a CPU is online
  *
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/header.h b/tools/perf/util/header.h
index 0eb4bc29a5a4..b0f754364bd4 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/header.h
+++ b/tools/perf/util/header.h
@@ -166,4 +166,5 @@ int get_cpuid(char *buffer, size_t sz);
 
 char *get_cpuid_str(struct perf_pmu *pmu __maybe_unused);
 int strcmp_cpuid_str(const char *s1, const char *s2);
+char *cpuinfo_field(const char *search);
 #endif /* __PERF_HEADER_H */
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