Re: [PATCH] perf stat: Fix shadow stats for clock events

From: Jiri Olsa
Date: Fri Nov 16 2018 - 08:36:03 EST


On Fri, Nov 16, 2018 at 09:58:43AM +0530, Ravi Bangoria wrote:
> Commit 0aa802a79469 ("perf stat: Get rid of extra clock display
> function") introduced scale and unit for clock events. Thus,
> perf_stat__update_shadow_stats() now saves scaled values of
> clock events in msecs, instead of original nsecs. But while
> calculating values of shadow stats we still consider clock
> event values in nsecs. This results in a wrong shadow stat
> values. Ex,
>
> # ./perf stat -e task-clock,cycles ls
> <SNIP>
> 2.60 msec task-clock:u # 0.877 CPUs utilized
> 2,430,564 cycles:u # 1215282.000 GHz
>
> Fix this by saving original nsec values for clock events in
> perf_stat__update_shadow_stats(). After patch:
>
> # ./perf stat -e task-clock,cycles ls
> <SNIP>
> 3.14 msec task-clock:u # 0.839 CPUs utilized
> 3,094,528 cycles:u # 0.985 GHz
>
> Reported-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@xxxxxxxxx>
> Suggested-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Fixes: 0aa802a79469 ("perf stat: Get rid of extra clock display function")
> Signed-off-by: Ravi Bangoria <ravi.bangoria@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@xxxxxxxxxx>

thanks,
jirka

> ---
> tools/perf/util/stat-shadow.c | 3 ++-
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/tools/perf/util/stat-shadow.c b/tools/perf/util/stat-shadow.c
> index f0a8cec55c47..3c22c58b3e90 100644
> --- a/tools/perf/util/stat-shadow.c
> +++ b/tools/perf/util/stat-shadow.c
> @@ -209,11 +209,12 @@ void perf_stat__update_shadow_stats(struct perf_evsel *counter, u64 count,
> int cpu, struct runtime_stat *st)
> {
> int ctx = evsel_context(counter);
> + u64 count_ns = count;
>
> count *= counter->scale;
>
> if (perf_evsel__is_clock(counter))
> - update_runtime_stat(st, STAT_NSECS, 0, cpu, count);
> + update_runtime_stat(st, STAT_NSECS, 0, cpu, count_ns);
> else if (perf_evsel__match(counter, HARDWARE, HW_CPU_CYCLES))
> update_runtime_stat(st, STAT_CYCLES, ctx, cpu, count);
> else if (perf_stat_evsel__is(counter, CYCLES_IN_TX))
> --
> 2.17.1
>