Re: [PATCH v2 4/7] perf pmu: Add function to check if a pmu file exists

[James Clark <james.clark@arm.com>]

On 23/12/2022 06:26, Leo Yan wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 22, 2022 at 04:03:24PM +0000, James Clark wrote:
>> From: German Gomez <german.gomez@arm.com>
>>
>> Add a utility function perf_pmu__file_exists() to check if a given pmu
>> file exists in the sysfs filesystem.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: German Gomez <german.gomez@arm.com>
>> Signed-off-by: James Clark <james.clark@arm.com>
>> ---
>>  tools/perf/util/pmu.c | 14 ++++++++++++++
>>  tools/perf/util/pmu.h |  2 ++
>>  2 files changed, 16 insertions(+)
>>
>> diff --git a/tools/perf/util/pmu.c b/tools/perf/util/pmu.c
>> index 15b852b3c401..b72b2d892949 100644
>> --- a/tools/perf/util/pmu.c
>> +++ b/tools/perf/util/pmu.c
>> @@ -1739,6 +1739,20 @@ int perf_pmu__scan_file(struct perf_pmu *pmu, const char *name, const char *fmt,
>>  	return ret;
>>  }
>>  
>> +bool perf_pmu__file_exists(struct perf_pmu *pmu, const char *name)
>> +{
>> +	char path[PATH_MAX];
>> +	struct stat statbuf;
>> +
>> +	if (!perf_pmu__pathname_scnprintf(path, PATH_MAX, pmu->name, name))
>> +		return false;
>> +
>> +	if (!file_available(path))
>> +		return false;
>> +
>> +	return stat(path, &statbuf) == 0;
> 
> Can we simply return the returned value from file_available() and skip
> calling stat()?  Because file_available() invokes access() to detect if
> a file is existed or not, so here calling stat() is redundant.
> 

Yep that works. Fixed in V3.