Re: [PATCH] perf stat: Update event skip condition

[Athira Rajeev]

> On 06-Dec-2022, at 4:46 AM, Namhyung Kim <namhyung@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> In print_counter_aggrdata(), it skips some events that has no aggregate
> count.  It's actually for system-wide per-thread mode and merged uncore
> and hybrid events.
> 
> Let's update the condition to check them explicitly.
> 
> Fixes: 91f85f98da7a ("Display event stats using aggr counts")
> Reported-by: Athira Rajeev <atrajeev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> Athira, could you please check this fixes the problem?
> 
> tools/perf/util/stat-display.c | 16 +++++++++-------
> 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/tools/perf/util/stat-display.c b/tools/perf/util/stat-display.c
> index 847acdb5dc40..6c0de52ac4be 100644
> --- a/tools/perf/util/stat-display.c
> +++ b/tools/perf/util/stat-display.c
> @@ -814,7 +814,8 @@ static void print_counter_aggrdata(struct perf_stat_config *config,
> 	os->nr = aggr->nr;
> 	os->evsel = counter;
> 
> -	if (counter->supported && aggr->nr == 0)
> +	/* Skip already merged uncore/hybrid events */
> +	if (counter->merged_stat)
> 		return;

Hi Namhyung,

Thanks for the fix.

This patch removes the merged_stat checks from print_aggr and print_aggr_cgroup.
We also have this check in print_counter which needs to be removed.

With that change, 

Acked-by: Athira Rajeev <atrajeev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

> 
> 	uniquify_counter(config, counter);
> @@ -823,6 +824,13 @@ static void print_counter_aggrdata(struct perf_stat_config *config,
> 	ena = aggr->counts.ena;
> 	run = aggr->counts.run;
> 
> +	/*
> +	 * Skip value 0 when enabling --per-thread globally, otherwise it will
> +	 * have too many 0 output.
> +	 */
> +	if (val == 0 && config->aggr_mode == AGGR_THREAD && config->system_wide)
> +		return;
> +
> 	if (!metric_only) {
> 		if (config->json_output)
> 			fputc('{', output);
> @@ -899,9 +907,6 @@ static void print_aggr(struct perf_stat_config *config,
> 		print_metric_begin(config, evlist, os, s);
> 
> 		evlist__for_each_entry(evlist, counter) {
> -			if (counter->merged_stat)
> -				continue;
> -
> 			print_counter_aggrdata(config, counter, s, os);
> 		}
> 		print_metric_end(config, os);
> @@ -928,9 +933,6 @@ static void print_aggr_cgroup(struct perf_stat_config *config,
> 			print_metric_begin(config, evlist, os, s);
> 
> 			evlist__for_each_entry(evlist, counter) {
> -				if (counter->merged_stat)
> -					continue;
> -
> 				if (counter->cgrp != os->cgrp)
> 					continue;
> 
> -- 
> 2.39.0.rc0.267.gcb52ba06e7-goog
>