[PATCH v1 0/9] jevents/pmu-events improvements

From: Ian Rogers
Date: Tue Dec 13 2022 - 00:03:38 EST


Add an optimization to jevents using the metric code, rewrite metrics
in terms of each other in order to minimize size and improve
readability. For example, on Power8
other_stall_cpi is rewritten from:
"PM_CMPLU_STALL / PM_RUN_INST_CMPL - PM_CMPLU_STALL_BRU_CRU / PM_RUN_INST_CMPL - PM_CMPLU_STALL_FXU / PM_RUN_INST_CMPL - PM_CMPLU_STALL_VSU / PM_RUN_INST_CMPL - PM_CMPLU_STALL_LSU / PM_RUN_INST_CMPL - PM_CMPLU_STALL_NTCG_FLUSH / PM_RUN_INST_CMPL - PM_CMPLU_STALL_NO_NTF / PM_RUN_INST_CMPL"
to:
"stall_cpi - bru_cru_stall_cpi - fxu_stall_cpi - vsu_stall_cpi - lsu_stall_cpi - ntcg_flush_cpi - no_ntf_stall_cpi"
Which more closely matches the definition on Power9.

A limitation of the substitutions are that they depend on strict
equality and the shape of the tree. This means that for "a + b + c"
then a substitution of "a + b" will succeed while "b + c" will fail
(the LHS for "+ c" is "a + b").

Separate out the events and metrics in the pmu-events tables saving
14.8% in the table size while making it that metrics no longer need to
iterate over all events and vice versa. These changes remove evsel's
direct metric support as the pmu_event no longer has a metric to
populate it. This is a minor issue as the code wasn't working
properly, metrics for this are rare and can still be properly ran
using '-M'.

Add an ability to just build certain models into the code. This
functionality is appropriate for operating systems like ChromeOS, that
aim to minimize binary size and know all the target CPU models.

Ian Rogers (9):
perf jevents metric: Correct Function equality
perf jevents metric: Add ability to rewrite metrics in terms of others
perf jevents: Rewrite metrics in the same file with each other
perf pmu-events: Separate metric out of pmu_event
perf stat: Remove evsel metric_name/expr
perf jevents: Combine table prefix and suffix writing
perf pmu-events: Introduce pmu_metrics_table
perf jevents: Generate metrics and events as separate tables
perf jevents: Add model list option

tools/perf/arch/arm64/util/pmu.c | 23 +-
tools/perf/arch/powerpc/util/header.c | 4 +-
tools/perf/builtin-list.c | 20 +-
tools/perf/builtin-stat.c | 1 -
tools/perf/pmu-events/Build | 3 +-
tools/perf/pmu-events/empty-pmu-events.c | 111 ++++++-
tools/perf/pmu-events/jevents.py | 353 ++++++++++++++++++-----
tools/perf/pmu-events/metric.py | 75 ++++-
tools/perf/pmu-events/metric_test.py | 10 +
tools/perf/pmu-events/pmu-events.h | 26 +-
tools/perf/tests/expand-cgroup.c | 4 +-
tools/perf/tests/parse-metric.c | 4 +-
tools/perf/tests/pmu-events.c | 68 ++---
tools/perf/util/cgroup.c | 1 -
tools/perf/util/evsel.c | 2 -
tools/perf/util/evsel.h | 2 -
tools/perf/util/metricgroup.c | 203 +++++++------
tools/perf/util/metricgroup.h | 4 +-
tools/perf/util/parse-events.c | 2 -
tools/perf/util/pmu.c | 44 +--
tools/perf/util/pmu.h | 10 +-
tools/perf/util/print-events.c | 32 +-
tools/perf/util/print-events.h | 3 +-
tools/perf/util/python.c | 7 -
tools/perf/util/stat-shadow.c | 112 -------
tools/perf/util/stat.h | 1 -
26 files changed, 663 insertions(+), 462 deletions(-)

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