perf pmu: Add override support for event list CPUID

Add a PERF_CPUID variable to override the CPUID of the current CPU
(within the current architecture). This is useful for testing, so that
all event lists can be tested on a single system.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Madhavan Srinivasan <maddy@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1473978296-20712-10-git-send-email-sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/tools/perf/util/pmu.c b/tools/perf/util/pmu.c
index 9dc3506d23fc..79242cf9bb79 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/pmu.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/pmu.c
@@ -501,10 +501,16 @@ static void pmu_add_cpu_aliases(struct list_head *head)
         struct pmu_event *pe;
         char *cpuid;
 
-        cpuid = get_cpuid_str();
+        cpuid = getenv("PERF_CPUID");
+        if (cpuid)
+                cpuid = strdup(cpuid);
+        if (!cpuid)
+                cpuid = get_cpuid_str();
         if (!cpuid)
                 return;
 
+        pr_debug("Using CPUID %s\n", cpuid);
+
         i = 0;
         while (1) {
                 map = &pmu_events_map[i++];