Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] perf-stat: enable counting events for BPF programs

[Jiri Olsa]

On Tue, Dec 08, 2020 at 01:36:57AM +0000, Song Liu wrote:

SNIP

> > SNIP
> > 
> >> +static int bpf_program_profiler__read(struct evsel *evsel)
> >> +{
> >> +	int num_cpu = evsel__nr_cpus(evsel);
> >> +	struct bpf_perf_event_value values[num_cpu];
> >> +	struct bpf_counter *counter;
> >> +	int reading_map_fd;
> >> +	__u32 key = 0;
> >> +	int err, cpu;
> >> +
> >> +	if (list_empty(&evsel->bpf_counter_list))
> >> +		return -EAGAIN;
> >> +
> >> +	for (cpu = 0; cpu < num_cpu; cpu++) {
> >> +		perf_counts(evsel->counts, cpu, 0)->val = 0;
> >> +		perf_counts(evsel->counts, cpu, 0)->ena = 0;
> >> +		perf_counts(evsel->counts, cpu, 0)->run = 0;
> >> +	}
> >> +	list_for_each_entry(counter, &evsel->bpf_counter_list, list) {
> >> +		struct bpf_prog_profiler_bpf *skel = counter->skel;
> >> +
> >> +		reading_map_fd = bpf_map__fd(skel->maps.accum_readings);
> >> +
> >> +		err = bpf_map_lookup_elem(reading_map_fd, &key, values);
> >> +		if (err) {
> >> +			fprintf(stderr, "failed to read value\n");
> >> +			return err;
> >> +		}
> >> +
> >> +		for (cpu = 0; cpu < num_cpu; cpu++) {
> >> +			perf_counts(evsel->counts, cpu, 0)->val += values[cpu].counter;
> >> +			perf_counts(evsel->counts, cpu, 0)->ena += values[cpu].enabled;
> >> +			perf_counts(evsel->counts, cpu, 0)->run += values[cpu].running;
> >> +		}
> > 
> > so we sum everything up for all provided bpf IDs,
> > should we count/display them separately?
> 
> I think that's the default behavior with --pid x,y,z or --cpu a,b,c. 
> Do we need to separate them?

ah right, and we have --per-thread that splits the output
for specified pids

I think we should add something like that for bpf, so we
could see stats for specific programs

it's ok to do this as a follow up patch in future

thanks,
jirka