Re: [RFC] perf evlist: Warn if event group has mixed sw/hw events

[Namhyung Kim]

Hi,

On Tue, Oct 27, 2020 at 12:49 AM Alexander Shishkin
<alexander.shishkin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
> > On Mon, Oct 26, 2020 at 11:19:37PM +0900, Namhyung Kim wrote:
> >> This patch just added a warning before running it.  I'd really want to
> >> fix the kernel if possible but don't have a good idea.  Thoughts?
> >
> > The easiest fix would be some multi threading in perf stat opening, then then
> > extra latencies could be mostly hidden. One thread per group would probably
> > be overkill, but just a few threads would lower the penalty significantly.
> >
> > I think that would be better than this patch and it's likely not that much
> > more complicated, as this is already a lot of code.
> >
> >> +{
> >> +    const char *known_sw_pmu[] = {
> >> +            "software", "tracepoint", "breakpoint", "kprobe", "uprobe", "msr"
> >
> > That's a non scalable approach. New pmus get added regularly. It would be better to
> > indicate this in a generic way from the kernel.
>
> That, and also, intel_pt is a software PMU and a few of its features
> depend on intel_pt/.../ being a group leader.

Thanks for the info, that's good to know.

So do you mean intel_pt requires other HW events in the same group?

Thanks
Namhyung