perf evlist: Add can_select_event() method

Add a function to determine whether an event can be selected.

This function is needed to allow a tool to automatically select
additional events, but only if they are available.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1386765443-26966-18-git-send-email-alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

tools/perf/util/evlist.h

@@ -193,4 +193,6 @@ static inline void perf_mmap__write_tail(struct perf_mmap *md,
 	pc->data_tail = tail;
 }
 
+bool perf_evlist__can_select_event(struct perf_evlist *evlist, const char *str);
+
 #endif /* __PERF_EVLIST_H */

tools/perf/util/record.c

@@ -177,3 +177,40 @@ int perf_record_opts__config(struct perf_record_opts *opts)
 {
 	return perf_record_opts__config_freq(opts);
 }
+
+bool perf_evlist__can_select_event(struct perf_evlist *evlist, const char *str)
+{
+	struct perf_evlist *temp_evlist;
+	struct perf_evsel *evsel;
+	int err, fd, cpu;
+	bool ret = false;
+
+	temp_evlist = perf_evlist__new();
+	if (!temp_evlist)
+		return false;
+
+	err = parse_events(temp_evlist, str);
+	if (err)
+		goto out_delete;
+
+	evsel = perf_evlist__last(temp_evlist);
+
+	if (!evlist || cpu_map__empty(evlist->cpus)) {
+		struct cpu_map *cpus = cpu_map__new(NULL);
+
+		cpu =  cpus ? cpus->map[0] : 0;
+		cpu_map__delete(cpus);
+	} else {
+		cpu = evlist->cpus->map[0];
+	}
+
+	fd = sys_perf_event_open(&evsel->attr, -1, cpu, -1, 0);
+	if (fd >= 0) {
+		close(fd);
+		ret = true;
+	}
+
+out_delete:
+	perf_evlist__delete(temp_evlist);
+	return ret;
+}