Re: [PATCH v4 01/10] tools/perf: support parsing parameterized events

From: Jiri Olsa
Date: Wed Oct 01 2014 - 05:07:28 EST


On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 07:25:20PM -0700, Sukadev Bhattiprolu wrote:
> Jiri Olsa [jolsa@xxxxxxxxxx] wrote:
> | On Wed, Sep 24, 2014 at 12:27:15PM -0700, Sukadev Bhattiprolu wrote:
> | > From: Cody P Schafer <cody@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> | >
> | > Enable event specification like:
> | >
> | > pmu/event_name,param1=0x1,param2=0x4/
> | >
> | > Assuming that
> | >
> | > /sys/bus/event_source/devices/pmu/events/event_name
> | >
> | > Contains something like
> | >
> | > param2=foo,bar=1,param1=baz
> |
> | hum, so what happened to the '?' ... AFAIU from out last discussion,
> | you wanted to mark terms which are mandatory and user must provide
> | values for them.. and I thought the decision was to have following
> | alias record:
> |
> | $ cat /sys/bus/event_source/devices/pmu/events/event_name
> | param2=?,bar=1,param1=?
> |
> | while perf would scream if any of param1/2 wasnt filled like for:
> | pmu/event_name,param1=0x1/
>
> Sorry, I meant to make perf list consistent with sysfs.
>
> Consider these two sysfs entries:
>
> $ cat HPM_0THRD_NON_IDLE_CCYC__PHYS_CORE
> domain=0x2,offset=0xe0,starting_index=core,lpar=0x0
>
> $ cat HPM_0THRD_NON_IDLE_CCYC__VCPU_HOME_CORE
> domain=0x3,offset=0xe0,starting_index=vcpu,lpar=sibling_guest_id
>
> In the first one, starting_index refers to a 'core' while in the second
> it refers to a vcpu. This serves as a "hint" for the parameter's meaning.
>
> By replacing both with 'starting_index=?' we lose that hint.
>
> Should we fix both sysfs and 'perf list' to say
>
> starting_index=?core

Peter, Ingo,
any opinions on this? Overall explanation is in here:
http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=141158688307356&w=2

thanks,
jirka
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