libperf: Add comments to 'struct perf_cpu_map'

A particular observed problem is confusing the index with the CPU value,
documentation should hopefully reduce this type of problem.

Reviewed-by: James Clark <james.clark@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: John Garry <john.garry@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Kajol Jain <kjain@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Leo Yan <leo.yan@linaro.org>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Mathieu Poirier <mathieu.poirier@linaro.org>
Cc: Mike Leach <mike.leach@linaro.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Paul Clarke <pc@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Riccardo Mancini <rickyman7@gmail.com>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Suzuki Poulouse <suzuki.poulose@arm.com>
Cc: Vineet Singh <vineet.singh@intel.com>
Cc: coresight@lists.linaro.org
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Cc: zhengjun.xing@intel.com
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220105061351.120843-2-irogers@google.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

diff --git a/tools/lib/perf/include/internal/cpumap.h b/tools/lib/perf/include/internal/cpumap.h
index 840d403..4054169 100644 (file)
--- a/tools/lib/perf/include/internal/cpumap.h
+++ b/tools/lib/perf/include/internal/cpumap.h
@@ -4,9 +4,18 @@
 
 #include <linux/refcount.h>
 
+/**
+ * A sized, reference counted, sorted array of integers representing CPU
+ * numbers. This is commonly used to capture which CPUs a PMU is associated
+ * with. The indices into the cpumap are frequently used as they avoid having
+ * gaps if CPU numbers were used. For events associated with a pid, rather than
+ * a CPU, a single dummy map with an entry of -1 is used.
+ */
 struct perf_cpu_map {
        refcount_t      refcnt;
+       /** Length of the map array. */
        int             nr;
+       /** The CPU values. */
        int             map[];
 };