Re: [PATCH v5 4/5] perf metric: Add utilities to work on ids map.

[Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>]

On Wed, Dec 2, 2020 at 4:40 PM Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com> wrote:
>
> Add utilities to new/free an ids hashmap, as well as to union. Add
> testing of the union. Unioning hashmaps will be used when parsing the
> metric, if a value is known then the hashmap is unnecessary, otherwise
> we need to union together all the event ids to compute their values for
> reporting.
>
> Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
> ---
[SNIP]

What about adding a comment that it should not access ids1 and ids2
after this function since they can be released?

> +struct hashmap *ids__union(struct hashmap *ids1, struct hashmap *ids2)
> +{
> +       size_t bkt;
> +       struct hashmap_entry *cur;
> +       int ret;
> +       struct expr_id_data *old_data = NULL;
> +       char *old_key = NULL;
> +
> +       if (!ids1)
> +               return ids2;
> +
> +       if (!ids2)
> +               return ids1;
> +
> +       if (hashmap__size(ids1) <  hashmap__size(ids2)) {
> +               struct hashmap *tmp = ids1;
> +
> +               ids1 = ids2;
> +               ids2 = tmp;
> +       }
> +       hashmap__for_each_entry(ids2, cur, bkt) {
> +               ret = hashmap__set(ids1, cur->key, cur->value,
> +                               (const void **)&old_key, (void **)&old_data);
> +               free(old_key);
> +               free(old_data);
> +
> +               if (ret)
> +                       break;
> +       }
> +       hashmap__free(ids2);
> +       return ids1;
> +}