Re: [perf metricgroup] fcc9c5243c: perf-sanity-tests.Parse_and_process_metrics.fail

[Ian Rogers]

On Sun, Oct 18, 2020 at 1:51 AM kernel test robot <rong.a.chen@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> Greeting,
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> FYI, we noticed the following commit (built with gcc-9):
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> commit: fcc9c5243c478f104014daf4d23db86098d2aef0 ("perf metricgroup: Hack a fix for aliases when covering multiple PMUs")
> url: https://github.com/0day-ci/linux/commits/John-Garry/perf-pmu-events-Support-event-aliasing-for-system-PMUs/20201008-182049
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>
> in testcase: perf-sanity-tests
> version: perf-x86_64-c85fb28b6f99-1_20201008
> with following parameters:
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>         perf_compiler: gcc
>         ucode: 0xdc
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>
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> on test machine: 4 threads Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-6500 CPU @ 3.20GHz with 32G memory
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> caused below changes (please refer to attached dmesg/kmsg for entire log/backtrace):

I believe this is a Skylake and there is a known bug in the Skylake
metric DRAM_Parallel_Reads as described here:
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAP-5=fXejVaQa9qfW66cY77qB962+jbe8tT5bsLoOOcFmODnWQ@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx/
Fixing the bug needs more knowledge than what is available in manuals.
Hopefully Intel can take a look.

Thanks,
Ian

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> If you fix the issue, kindly add following tag
> Reported-by: kernel test robot <rong.a.chen@xxxxxxxxx>
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> 2020-10-16 19:31:52 sudo /usr/src/perf_selftests-x86_64-rhel-8.3-fcc9c5243c478f104014daf4d23db86098d2aef0/tools/perf/perf test 67
> 67: Parse and process metrics                             : FAILED!
> 2020-10-16 19:31:52 sudo /usr/src/perf_selftests-x86_64-rhel-8.3-fcc9c5243c478f104014daf4d23db86098d2aef0/tools/perf/perf test 68
> 68: x86 rdpmc                                             : Ok
> 2020-10-16 19:31:52 sudo /usr/src/perf_selftests-x86_64-rhel-8.3-fcc9c5243c478f104014daf4d23db86098d2aef0/tools/perf/perf test 69
> 69: Convert perf time to TSC                              : Ok
> 2020-10-16 19:31:52 sudo /usr/src/perf_selftests-x86_64-rhel-8.3-fcc9c5243c478f104014daf4d23db86098d2aef0/tools/perf/perf test 70
> 70: DWARF unwind                                          : Ok
> 2020-10-16 19:31:52 sudo /usr/src/perf_selftests-x86_64-rhel-8.3-fcc9c5243c478f104014daf4d23db86098d2aef0/tools/perf/perf test 71
> 71: x86 instruction decoder - new instructions            : Ok
> 2020-10-16 19:31:52 sudo /usr/src/perf_selftests-x86_64-rhel-8.3-fcc9c5243c478f104014daf4d23db86098d2aef0/tools/perf/perf test 72
> 72: Intel PT packet decoder                               : Ok
> 2020-10-16 19:31:52 sudo /usr/src/perf_selftests-x86_64-rhel-8.3-fcc9c5243c478f104014daf4d23db86098d2aef0/tools/perf/perf test 73
> 73: x86 bp modify                                         : Ok
> 2020-10-16 19:31:53 sudo /usr/src/perf_selftests-x86_64-rhel-8.3-fcc9c5243c478f104014daf4d23db86098d2aef0/tools/perf/perf test 74
> 74: probe libc's inet_pton & backtrace it with ping       : Ok
> 2020-10-16 19:31:54 sudo /usr/src/perf_selftests-x86_64-rhel-8.3-fcc9c5243c478f104014daf4d23db86098d2aef0/tools/perf/perf test 75
> 75: Zstd perf.data compression/decompression              : Ok
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>
>
> To reproduce:
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>         git clone https://github.com/intel/lkp-tests.git
>         cd lkp-tests
>         bin/lkp install job.yaml  # job file is attached in this email
>         bin/lkp run     job.yaml
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>
> Thanks,
> Rong Chen
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