Re: [PATCH v2 21/21] perf metric: Allow modifiers on metrics.

From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
Date: Tue Oct 19 2021 - 11:13:58 EST


Em Tue, Oct 19, 2021 at 12:06:17PM -0300, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo escreveu:
> Em Fri, Oct 15, 2021 at 10:21:32AM -0700, Ian Rogers escreveu:
> > By allowing modifiers on metrics we can, for example, gather the
> > same metric for kernel and user mode. On a SkylakeX with
> > TopDownL1 this gives:
> >
> > $ perf stat -M TopDownL1:u,TopDownL1:k -a sleep 2
> >
> > Performance counter stats for 'system wide':
>
> Hi Ian, can you please take a look on this? this is on my perf/core
> branch.

I processed the first version of this series, reviewed by Andi, can you
please submit the diff from one to the other?

- Arnaldo

> - Arnaldo
>
> [root@five ~]# perf test -vv "for cgroups"
> 70: Event expansion for cgroups :
> --- start ---
> test child forked, pid 992568
> Using CPUID AuthenticAMD-25-21-0
> libpfm was not enabled
> metric expr 1 / IPC for CPI
> parsing metric: 1 / IPC
> metric expr instructions / cycles for IPC
> parsing metric: instructions / cycles
> found event instructions
> found event cycles
> Parsing metric events '{instructions/metric-id=instructions/,cycles/metric-id=cycles/}:W'
> copying metric event for cgroup 'A': instructions (idx=0)
> copying metric event for cgroup 'B': instructions (idx=0)
> copying metric event for cgroup 'C': instructions (idx=0)
> free(): double free detected in tcache 2
> test child interrupted
> ---- end ----
> Event expansion for cgroups: FAILED!
> [root@five ~]#
>
> ⬢[acme@toolbox perf]$ git bisect bad
> c067335fcbfc67c36663dabdb9ccaa96badf9359 is the first bad commit
> commit c067335fcbfc67c36663dabdb9ccaa96badf9359
> Author: Ian Rogers <irogers@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Thu Oct 7 09:56:47 2021 -0700
>
> perf metric: Allow modifiers on metrics.
>
> By allowing modifiers on metrics we can, for example, gather the
> same metric for kernel and user mode. On a SkylakeX with
> TopDownL1 this gives:
>

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- Arnaldo