Re: [RFC] perf arm-spe: Track task context switch for cpu-mode events

[James Clark]

On 05/10/2021 11:06, German Gomez wrote:
> Hi Leo,
> 
> On 04/10/2021 07:26, Leo Yan wrote:
>> Hi James,
>>
>> On Thu, Sep 30, 2021 at 04:08:52PM +0100, James Clark wrote:
>>> On 23/09/2021 15:23, Leo Yan wrote:
>>>> On Thu, Sep 16, 2021 at 02:01:21PM -0700, Namhyung Kim wrote:
>> [...]
>> I'd like to use the comparison method for the test:
>> We should enable PID tracing and capture in the perf.data, when decode
>> the trace data, we can based on context packet and based on the switch
>> events to generate out two results, so we can check how the difference
>> between these results.
> 
> Yesterday we did some testing and found that there seems to be an exact
> match between using context packets and switch events. However this only
> applies when tracing in userspace (by adding the 'u' suffix to the perf
> event). Otherwise we still see as much as 2% of events having the wrong
> PID around the time of the switch.
> 
> In order to measure this I applied Namhyung's patch and James's patch
> from [1]. 

I thought that this had been applied already so I need to follow this up.

James

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> [1] https://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-perf-users/msg12543.html
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