[PATCH V2] perf tools: Add missing Intel CPU events to parser

From: Adrian Hunter
Date: Thu Mar 26 2020 - 04:02:32 EST


perf list expects CPU events to be parseable by name, e.g.

# perf list | grep el-capacity-read
el-capacity-read OR cpu/el-capacity-read/ [Kernel PMU event]

But the event parser does not recognize them that way, e.g.

# perf test -v "Parse event"
<SNIP>
running test 54 'cycles//u'
running test 55 'cycles:k'
running test 0 'cpu/config=10,config1,config2=3,period=1000/u'
running test 1 'cpu/config=1,name=krava/u,cpu/config=2/u'
running test 2 'cpu/config=1,call-graph=fp,time,period=100000/,cpu/config=2,call-graph=no,time=0,period=2000/'
running test 3 'cpu/name='COMPLEX_CYCLES_NAME:orig=cycles,desc=chip-clock-ticks',period=0x1,event=0x2/ukp'
-> cpu/event=0,umask=0x11/
-> cpu/event=0,umask=0x13/
-> cpu/event=0x54,umask=0x1/
failed to parse event 'el-capacity-read:u,cpu/event=el-capacity-read/u', err 1, str 'parser error'
event syntax error: 'el-capacity-read:u,cpu/event=el-capacity-read/u'
\___ parser error test child finished with 1
---- end ----
Parse event definition strings: FAILED!

This happens because the parser splits names by '-' in order to deal
with cache events. For example 'L1-dcache' is a token in
parse-events.l which is matched to 'L1-dcache-load-miss' by the
following rule:

PE_NAME_CACHE_TYPE '-' PE_NAME_CACHE_OP_RESULT '-' PE_NAME_CACHE_OP_RESULT opt_event_config

And so there is special handling for 2-part PMU names i.e.

PE_PMU_EVENT_PRE '-' PE_PMU_EVENT_SUF sep_dc

but no handling for 3-part names, which are instead added as tokens e.g.

topdown-[a-z-]+

While it would be possible to add a rule for 3-part names, that would
not work if the first parts were also a valid PMU name e.g.
'el-capacity-read' would be matched to 'el-capacity' before the parser
reached the 3rd part.

The parser would need significant change to rationalize all this, so
instead fix for now by adding missing Intel CPU events with 3-part names
to the event parser as tokens.

Missing events were found by using:

grep -r EVENT_ATTR_STR arch/x86/events/intel/core.c

Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@xxxxxxxxx>
---


Changes in V2:

Add only 3-part names
Clarify commit message


tools/perf/util/parse-events.l | 12 +++++++-----
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tools/perf/util/parse-events.l b/tools/perf/util/parse-events.l
index 7b1c8ee537cf..baa48f28d57d 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/parse-events.l
+++ b/tools/perf/util/parse-events.l
@@ -342,11 +342,13 @@ bpf-output { return sym(yyscanner, PERF_TYPE_SOFTWARE, PERF_COUNT_SW_BPF_OUT
* Because the prefix cycles is mixed up with cpu-cycles.
* loads and stores are mixed up with cache event
*/
-cycles-ct { return str(yyscanner, PE_KERNEL_PMU_EVENT); }
-cycles-t { return str(yyscanner, PE_KERNEL_PMU_EVENT); }
-mem-loads { return str(yyscanner, PE_KERNEL_PMU_EVENT); }
-mem-stores { return str(yyscanner, PE_KERNEL_PMU_EVENT); }
-topdown-[a-z-]+ { return str(yyscanner, PE_KERNEL_PMU_EVENT); }
+cycles-ct |
+cycles-t |
+mem-loads |
+mem-stores |
+topdown-[a-z-]+ |
+tx-capacity-[a-z-]+ |
+el-capacity-[a-z-]+ { return str(yyscanner, PE_KERNEL_PMU_EVENT); }

L1-dcache|l1-d|l1d|L1-data |
L1-icache|l1-i|l1i|L1-instruction |
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