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 <irogers@google.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240907050830.6752-5-irogers@google.com
Cc: Ravi Bangoria <ravi.bangoria@amd.com>
Cc: Sandipan Das <sandipan.das@amd.com>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Yang Jihong <yangjihong@bytedance.com>
Cc: Dominique Martinet <asmadeus@codewreck.org>
Cc: Clément Le Goffic <clement.legoffic@foss.st.com>
Cc: Colin Ian King <colin.i.king@gmail.com>
Cc: Howard Chu <howardchu95@gmail.com>
Cc: Ze Gao <zegao2021@gmail.com>
Cc: Yicong Yang <yangyicong@hisilicon.com>
Cc: Changbin Du <changbin.du@huawei.com>
Cc: Junhao He <hejunhao3@huawei.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Weilin Wang <weilin.wang@intel.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Cc: James Clark <james.clark@linaro.org>
Cc: Mike Leach <mike.leach@linaro.org>
Cc: Jing Zhang <renyu.zj@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: Leo Yan <leo.yan@linux.dev>
Cc: Oliver Upton <oliver.upton@linux.dev>
Cc: Benjamin Gray <bgray@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Athira Jajeev <atrajeev@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Cc: Sun Haiyong <sunhaiyong@loongson.cn>
Cc: Tiezhu Yang <yangtiezhu@loongson.cn>
Cc: Xu Yang <xu.yang_2@nxp.com>
Cc: John Garry <john.g.garry@oracle.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Veronika Molnarova <vmolnaro@redhat.com>
Cc: Dr. David Alan Gilbert <linux@treblig.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-perf-users@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

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");