Re: [PATCH v2 7/7] perf test: Test pmu-events aliases

[John Garry]

On 17/03/2020 16:20, Jiri Olsa wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 17, 2020 at 07:02:19PM +0800, John Garry wrote:
>
> SNIP
>
> >   struct perf_pmu_test_event {
> >   	struct pmu_event event;
> > +
> > +	/* extra events for aliases */
> > +	const char *alias_str;
> > +
> > +	/*
> > +	 * Note: For when PublicDescription does not exist in the JSON, we
> > +	 * will have no long_desc in pmu_event.long_desc, but long_desc may
> > +	 * be set in the alias.
> > +	 */
> > +	const char *alias_long_desc;
> >   };
> > +
> >   static struct perf_pmu_test_event test_cpu_events[] = {
> >   	{
> >   		.event = {
> > @@ -20,6 +31,8 @@ static struct perf_pmu_test_event test_cpu_events[] = {
> >   			.desc = "L1 BTB Correction",
> >   			.topic = "branch",
> >   		},
> > +		.alias_str = "event=0x8a",
> > +		.alias_long_desc = "L1 BTB Correction",
> >   	},
> >   	{
> >   		.event = {
> > @@ -28,6 +41,8 @@ static struct perf_pmu_test_event test_cpu_events[] = {
> >   			.desc = "L2 BTB Correction",
> >   			.topic = "branch",
> >   		},
> > +		.alias_str = "event=0x8b",
> > +		.alias_long_desc = "L2 BTB Correction",
> >   	},
> >   	{
> >   		.event = {
> > @@ -36,6 +51,8 @@ static struct perf_pmu_test_event test_cpu_events[] = {
> >   			.desc = "Number of segment register loads",
> >   			.topic = "other",
> >   		},
> > +		.alias_str = "umask=0x80,(null)=0x30d40,event=0x6",
>
> ah so we are using other pmus because of the format definitions

Hi jirka,

> why is there the '(null)' in there?

Well this is just coming from the generated alias string in the pmu 
code, and it does not seem to be handling "period" argument properly. It 
needs to be checked.
Thanks,
John