Re: [PATCH v3 1/2] perf test: Workload test of metric and metricgroups

[John Garry]

On 24/09/2021 20:09, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote:
> Em Fri, Sep 17, 2021 at 11:42:39AM -0700, Ian Rogers escreveu:
> > Test every metric and metricgroup with 'true' as a workload. For
> > metrics, check that we see the metric printed or get unsupported. If the
> > 'true' workload executes too quickly retry with 'perf bench internals
> > synthesize'.
> >
> > v3. Fix test condition (thanks to Paul A. Clarke<pc@xxxxxxxxxx>). Add a
> >      fallback case of a larger workload so that we don't ignore "<not
> >      counted>".
> > v2. Switched the workload to something faster.

Hi Ian,

I just noticed that this test fails on my broadwell machine.

I am using acme perf/core @ 09dd3c22daaf

metricgroup Memory_Bw fails, and it seems because of the "true" argument 
to "perf stat" (or any argument, like sleep 1):

john@localhost:~/kernel-dev9/tools/perf> sudo ./perf stat -M Memory_BW
^C
 Performance counter stats for 'system wide':

             2,184      arb/event=0x84,umask=0x1/ #     0.26 
DRAM_BW_Use
         2,954,938      arb/event=0x81,umask=0x1/ 

       736,368,852 ns   duration_time 

        58,202,980      l1d_pend_miss.pending_cycles #     2.34 MLP 
                 (80.11%)
       136,293,194      l1d_pend_miss.pending 
              (19.89%)
       736,368,852 ns   duration_time 

         1,065,656      longest_lat_cache.miss    #     0.09 
L3_Cache_Fill_BW         (39.71%)
       736,368,852 ns   duration_time 

         5,365,477      l2_lines_in.all           #     0.47 
L2_Cache_Fill_BW         (59.80%)
       736,368,852 ns   duration_time 

         3,557,362      l1d.replacement           #     0.31 
L1D_Cache_Fill_BW        (79.90%)
       736,368,852 ns   duration_time 


       0.736368852 seconds time elapsed


john@localhost:~/kernel-dev9/tools/perf> sudo ./perf stat -M Memory_BW true
Error:
The sys_perf_event_open() syscall returned with 22 (Invalid argument) 
for event (arb/event=0x84,umask=0x1/).
/bin/dmesg | grep -i perf may provide additional information.

john@localhost:~/kernel-dev9/tools/perf>

Anyone any idea on this before I start digging?

Thanks,
John