[PATCH 1/5] perf stat: Fix per-pkg event reporting bug

[Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo]

From: Stephane Eranian <eranian@xxxxxxxxxx>

Per-pkg events need to be captured once per processor socket. The code
in check_per_pkg() ensures only one value per processor package is used.
However there is a problem with this function in case the first CPU of
the package does not measure anything for the per-pkg event, but other
CPUs do.

Consider the following:

  $ create cgroup FOO; echo $$ >FOO/tasks; taskset -c 1 noploop &
  $ perf stat -a -I 1000 -e intel_cqm/llc_occupancy/ -G FOO sleep 100
    1.00000 <not counted> Bytes intel_cqm/llc_occupancy/  FOO

The reason for this is that CPU0 in the cgroup has nothing running on it.
Yet check_per_plg() will mark socket0 as processed and no other event
value will be considered for the socket.

This patch fixes the problem by having check_per_pkg() only consider
events which actually ran.

Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Kan Liang <kan.liang@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1441286620-10117-1-git-send-email-eranian@xxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
 tools/perf/util/stat.c | 16 ++++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tools/perf/util/stat.c b/tools/perf/util/stat.c
index 415c359de465..2d065d065b67 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/stat.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/stat.c
@@ -196,7 +196,8 @@ static void zero_per_pkg(struct perf_evsel *counter)
 		memset(counter->per_pkg_mask, 0, MAX_NR_CPUS);
 }
 
-static int check_per_pkg(struct perf_evsel *counter, int cpu, bool *skip)
+static int check_per_pkg(struct perf_evsel *counter,
+			 struct perf_counts_values *vals, int cpu, bool *skip)
 {
 	unsigned long *mask = counter->per_pkg_mask;
 	struct cpu_map *cpus = perf_evsel__cpus(counter);
@@ -218,6 +219,17 @@ static int check_per_pkg(struct perf_evsel *counter, int cpu, bool *skip)
 		counter->per_pkg_mask = mask;
 	}
 
+	/*
+	 * we do not consider an event that has not run as a good
+	 * instance to mark a package as used (skip=1). Otherwise
+	 * we may run into a situation where the first CPU in a package
+	 * is not running anything, yet the second is, and this function
+	 * would mark the package as used after the first CPU and would
+	 * not read the values from the second CPU.
+	 */
+	if (!(vals->run && vals->ena))
+		return 0;
+
 	s = cpu_map__get_socket(cpus, cpu);
 	if (s < 0)
 		return -1;
@@ -235,7 +247,7 @@ process_counter_values(struct perf_stat_config *config, struct perf_evsel *evsel
 	static struct perf_counts_values zero;
 	bool skip = false;
 
-	if (check_per_pkg(evsel, cpu, &skip)) {
+	if (check_per_pkg(evsel, count, cpu, &skip)) {
 		pr_err("failed to read per-pkg counter\n");
 		return -1;
 	}
-- 
2.1.0

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