Re: [PATCH 06/11] perf, tools: Automatically look for event file name for cpu

[Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>]

On Fri, 2014-07-11 at 16:59 -0700, Andi Kleen wrote:
> From: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
> 
> When no JSON event file is specified automatically look
> for a suitable file in ~/.cache/pmu-events. A "perf download" can
> automatically add files there for the current CPUs.
... 

> diff --git a/tools/perf/arch/x86/util/header.c b/tools/perf/arch/x86/util/header.c
> index 146d12a..76e0ece 100644
> --- a/tools/perf/arch/x86/util/header.c
> +++ b/tools/perf/arch/x86/util/header.c
> @@ -57,3 +58,15 @@ get_cpuid(char *buffer, size_t sz)
>  	}
>  	return -1;
>  }
> +
> +int get_cpuid(char *buffer, size_t sz)
> +{
> +	return __get_cpuid(buffer, sz, "%s,%u,%u,%u$");
> +}
> +
> +char *get_cpu_str(void)
> +{
> +	char *buf = malloc(128);

I realise malloc failure is unlikely, but it's not impossible right?

Seems like it'd be cleaner if the caller allocated the buffer.

> +	__get_cpuid(buf, 128, "%s-%d-%X-core");
> +	return buf;
> +}

cheers