1 files changed, 35 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/tools/perf/arch/x86/util/topdown.c b/tools/perf/arch/x86/util/topdown.c
index 597e963fb3e7..2f3d96aa92a5 100644
--- a/tools/perf/arch/x86/util/topdown.c
+++ b/tools/perf/arch/x86/util/topdown.c
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 // SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
 #include <stdio.h>
 #include "api/fs/fs.h"
+#include "util/pmu.h"
 #include "util/topdown.h"
 
 /*
@@ -26,3 +27,37 @@ void arch_topdown_group_warn(void)
 		"nmi_watchdog enabled with topdown. May give wrong results.\n"
 		"Disable with echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/nmi_watchdog\n");
 }
+
+#define TOPDOWN_SLOTS		0x0400
+
+static bool is_topdown_slots_event(struct evsel *counter)
+{
+	if (!counter->pmu_name)
+		return false;
+
+	if (strcmp(counter->pmu_name, "cpu"))
+		return false;
+
+	if (counter->core.attr.config == TOPDOWN_SLOTS)
+		return true;
+
+	return false;
+}
+
+/*
+ * Check whether a topdown group supports sample-read.
+ *
+ * Only Topdown metic supports sample-read. The slots
+ * event must be the leader of the topdown group.
+ */
+
+bool arch_topdown_sample_read(struct evsel *leader)
+{
+	if (!pmu_have_event("cpu", "slots"))
+		return false;
+
+	if (is_topdown_slots_event(leader))
+		return true;
+
+	return false;
+}