Re: [PATCH 2/5] perf stat: Add --for-each-cgroup option

[Jiri Olsa]

On Wed, Sep 23, 2020 at 07:51:33AM +0900, Namhyung Kim wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 23, 2020 at 6:40 AM Jiri Olsa <jolsa@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, Sep 21, 2020 at 06:46:07PM +0900, Namhyung Kim wrote:
> >
> > SNIP
> >
> > > +int evlist__expand_cgroup(struct evlist *evlist, const char *str)
> > > +{
> > > +     struct evlist *orig_list, *tmp_list;
> > > +     struct evsel *pos, *evsel, *leader;
> > > +     struct cgroup *cgrp = NULL;
> > > +     const char *p, *e, *eos = str + strlen(str);
> > > +     int ret = -1;
> > > +
> > > +     if (evlist->core.nr_entries == 0) {
> > > +             fprintf(stderr, "must define events before cgroups\n");
> > > +             return -EINVAL;
> > > +     }
> > > +
> > > +     orig_list = evlist__new();
> > > +     tmp_list = evlist__new();
> > > +     if (orig_list == NULL || tmp_list == NULL) {
> > > +             fprintf(stderr, "memory allocation failed\n");
> > > +             return -ENOMEM;
> > > +     }
> > > +
> > > +     /* save original events and init evlist */
> > > +     perf_evlist__splice_list_tail(orig_list, &evlist->core.entries);
> > > +     evlist->core.nr_entries = 0;
> > > +
> > > +     for (;;) {
> > > +             p = strchr(str, ',');
> > > +             e = p ? p : eos;
> > > +
> > > +             /* allow empty cgroups, i.e., skip */
> > > +             if (e - str) {
> > > +                     /* termination added */
> > > +                     char *name = strndup(str, e - str);
> > > +                     if (!name)
> > > +                             goto out_err;
> > > +
> > > +                     cgrp = cgroup__new(name);
> > > +                     free(name);
> > > +                     if (cgrp == NULL)
> > > +                             goto out_err;
> > > +             } else {
> > > +                     cgrp = NULL;
> > > +             }
> > > +
> > > +             leader = NULL;
> > > +             evlist__for_each_entry(orig_list, pos) {
> > > +                     evsel = evsel__clone(pos);
> > > +                     if (evsel == NULL)
> > > +                             goto out_err;
> > > +
> > > +                     cgroup__put(evsel->cgrp);
> > > +                     evsel->cgrp = cgroup__get(cgrp);
> > > +
> > > +                     if (evsel__is_group_leader(pos))
> > > +                             leader = evsel;
> > > +                     evsel->leader = leader;
> >
> > hum, will this work if there's standalone event after group? like:
> >
> >   {cycles,instructions},cache-misses
> >
> > cache-misses will get cycles as group leader no?
> 
> AFAIK non-group events are treated as a leader of its own group.
> So evsel__is_group_leader() will return true for cache-misses.

right, then it's fine

thanks,
jirka