Re: [PATCH v1 3/5] perf, tools, script: Allow printing period for non freq mode groups

From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
Date: Mon Nov 13 2017 - 13:23:55 EST


Em Mon, Nov 13, 2017 at 10:11:58AM +0100, Jiri Olsa escreveu:
> On Thu, Nov 09, 2017 at 06:55:26AM -0800, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > From: Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > When using leader sampling the values of the not sampled but counted
> > events are shown by perf script in "period".
> >
> > Currently printing period is only allowed when the main event
> > has a period, that is it is in frequency mode.
> >
> > This implies that we cannot dump the values of counted events
> > when the leader event is not in frequency mode.
> >
> > Just remove the check that the period must be set on all
> > events. It will just be printed as 0 instead if it's not
> > available.
>
> it'll be the value of configured period, not 0
>
> int perf_evsel__parse_sample(struct ...
> ...
> data->period = evsel->attr.sample_period;
>
> $ perf record -c 100000
> $ perf script -F event,period | head -3
> Failed to open /tmp/perf-2048.map, continuing without symbols
> 100000 cycles:ppp:
> 100000 cycles:ppp:
>
>
> other than that I think we can remove that check,
> because we will have always sane number in period
>
> Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@xxxxxxxxxx>

Applied, after adding your comments.

- Arnaldo