Re: [PATCH v5 5/5] perf arm-spe: Don't wait for PERF_RECORD_EXIT event

[Leo Yan]

On Fri, Jun 25, 2021 at 02:25:15PM +0100, James Clark wrote:
> 
> 
> On 19/05/2021 08:19, Leo Yan wrote:
> > When decode Arm SPE trace, it waits for PERF_RECORD_EXIT event (the last
> > perf event) for processing trace data, which is needless and even might
> > cause logic error, e.g. it might fail to correlate perf events with Arm
> > SPE events correctly.
> > 
> > So this patch removes the condition checking for PERF_RECORD_EXIT event.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Leo Yan <leo.yan@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> >  tools/perf/util/arm-spe.c | 6 +-----
> >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 5 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/tools/perf/util/arm-spe.c b/tools/perf/util/arm-spe.c
> > index 5c5b438584c4..58b7069c5a5f 100644
> > --- a/tools/perf/util/arm-spe.c
> > +++ b/tools/perf/util/arm-spe.c
> > @@ -717,11 +717,7 @@ static int arm_spe_process_event(struct perf_session *session,
> >  					sample->time);
> >  		}
> >  	} else if (timestamp) {
> > -		if (event->header.type == PERF_RECORD_EXIT) {
> > -			err = arm_spe_process_queues(spe, timestamp);
> > -			if (err)
> > -				return err;
> > -		}
> > +		err = arm_spe_process_queues(spe, timestamp);
> >  	}
> >  
> >  	return err;
> > 
> 
> For the whole set:
> Reviewed-by: James Clark <james.clark@xxxxxxx>
> Tested-by: James Clark <james.clark@xxxxxxx>

> I see a big improvement in decoding involving multiple processes because the timestamps are now
> correlated with the comm and mmap events.
> 
> For example perf-exec samples are visible right before the exec is done, and on an
> application that forks, samples are visible from all processes. For example:
> 
>    perf record -e arm_spe// -- bash -c "stress -c 1"
>    perf script
> 
>    perf-exec  4502 [003] 259755.050409:          1    l1d-access:  ffff80001014b840 sched_clock+0x40 ([kernel.kallsyms])
>    perf-exec  4502 [003] 259755.050409:          1    tlb-access:  ffff80001014b840 sched_clock+0x40 ([kernel.kallsyms])
>    perf-exec  4502 [003] 259755.050409:          1        memory:  ffff80001014b840 sched_clock+0x40 ([kernel.kallsyms])
>    perf-exec  4502 [003] 259755.050411:          1    tlb-access:  ffff800010120fb8 __rcu_read_lock+0x0 ([kernel.kallsyms])
>    bash  4502 [003] 259755.050411:          1   branch-miss:  ffff8000105b2a40 memcpy+0x80 ([kernel.kallsyms])
>    bash  4502 [003] 259755.050411:          1    tlb-access:                 0 [unknown] ([unknown])
>    ...
>    stress  4502 [003] 259755.051468:          1    l1d-access:  ffff800010259a24 __vma_adjust+0x1f4 ([kernel.kallsyms])
>    stress  4502 [003] 259755.051468:          1    tlb-access:  ffff800010259a24 __vma_adjust+0x1f4 ([kernel.kallsyms])
>    stress  4502 [003] 259755.051468:          1        memory:  ffff800010259a24 __vma_adjust+0x1f4 ([kernel.kallsyms])
> 
> Previously samples were only attributed to 'stress', which was obviously wrong.

Thanks a lot for the review and testing, James!

Hi Arnaldo, I confirmed this patch set can be cleanly applied on
the latest acme/perf/core branch, so could you pick up this patch
set?

Thanks,
Leo