Re: [PATCH] perf, tools: Fix metrics calculation with event qualifiers

From: Jiri Olsa
Date: Wed Apr 09 2014 - 10:08:14 EST


On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 01:07:27PM -0700, Andi Kleen wrote:
> From: Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Currently in perf IPC and other metrics cannot be directly shown
> separately for both user and kernel in a single run. The problem was
> that the metrics matching code did not check event qualifiers.
>
> With this patch the following case works correctly.
>
> % perf stat -e cycles:k,cycles:u,instructions:k,instructions:u true
>
> Performance counter stats for 'true':
>
> 531,718 cycles:k
> 203,895 cycles:u
> 338,151 instructions:k # 0.64 insns per cycle
> 105,961 instructions:u # 0.52 insns per cycle
>
> 0.002989739 seconds time elapsed
>
> Previously it would misreport the ratios because they were matching
> the wrong value.
>
> The patch is fairly big, but quite mechanic as it just
> adds context indexes everywhere.
>
> I didn't support Hypervisor. It's not clear it's worth it.
>
> Reported-by: William Cohen <wcohen@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@xxxxxxxxxx>

thanks,
jirka
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