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

From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
Date: Tue Nov 27 2018 - 07:36:35 EST


Em Fri, Nov 16, 2018 at 02:35:55PM +0100, Jiri Olsa escreveu:
> 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, applied.

- Arnaldo