[PATCH v1 36/51] perf metric: Compute and print threshold values

From: Ian Rogers
Date: Sun Feb 19 2023 - 04:36:57 EST


Compute the threshold metric and use it to color the metric value as
red or green. The threshold expression is used to generate the set of
events as the threshold may require additional events. A later patch
make this behavior optional with a --metric-no-threshold flag.

Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
tools/perf/util/metricgroup.c | 24 +++++++++++++++++++++---
tools/perf/util/metricgroup.h | 1 +
tools/perf/util/stat-shadow.c | 24 ++++++++++++++++--------
3 files changed, 38 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tools/perf/util/metricgroup.c b/tools/perf/util/metricgroup.c
index b1d56a73223d..d83885697125 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/metricgroup.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/metricgroup.c
@@ -129,6 +129,8 @@ struct metric {
const char *modifier;
/** The expression to parse, for example, "instructions/cycles". */
const char *metric_expr;
+ /** Optional threshold expression where zero value is green, otherwise red. */
+ const char *metric_threshold;
/**
* The "ScaleUnit" that scales and adds a unit to the metric during
* output.
@@ -222,6 +224,7 @@ static struct metric *metric__new(const struct pmu_metric *pm,
goto out_err;
}
m->metric_expr = pm->metric_expr;
+ m->metric_threshold = pm->metric_threshold;
m->metric_unit = pm->unit;
m->pctx->sctx.user_requested_cpu_list = NULL;
if (user_requested_cpu_list) {
@@ -901,6 +904,7 @@ static int __add_metric(struct list_head *metric_list,
const struct visited_metric *vm;
int ret;
bool is_root = !root_metric;
+ const char *expr;
struct visited_metric visited_node = {
.name = pm->metric_name,
.parent = visited,
@@ -963,16 +967,29 @@ static int __add_metric(struct list_head *metric_list,
* For both the parent and referenced metrics, we parse
* all the metric's IDs and add it to the root context.
*/
- if (expr__find_ids(pm->metric_expr, NULL, root_metric->pctx) < 0) {
+ ret = 0;
+ expr = pm->metric_expr;
+ if (is_root && pm->metric_threshold) {
+ /*
+ * Threshold expressions are built off the actual metric. Switch
+ * to use that in case of additional necessary events. Change
+ * the visited node name to avoid this being flagged as
+ * recursion.
+ */
+ assert(strstr(pm->metric_threshold, pm->metric_name));
+ expr = pm->metric_threshold;
+ visited_node.name = "__threshold__";
+ }
+ if (expr__find_ids(expr, NULL, root_metric->pctx) < 0) {
/* Broken metric. */
ret = -EINVAL;
- } else {
+ }
+ if (!ret) {
/* Resolve referenced metrics. */
ret = resolve_metric(metric_list, modifier, metric_no_group,
user_requested_cpu_list, system_wide,
root_metric, &visited_node, table);
}
-
if (ret) {
if (is_root)
metric__free(root_metric);
@@ -1554,6 +1571,7 @@ static int parse_groups(struct evlist *perf_evlist, const char *str,
free(metric_events);
goto out;
}
+ expr->metric_threshold = m->metric_threshold;
expr->metric_unit = m->metric_unit;
expr->metric_events = metric_events;
expr->runtime = m->pctx->sctx.runtime;
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/metricgroup.h b/tools/perf/util/metricgroup.h
index 84030321a057..32eb3a5381fb 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/metricgroup.h
+++ b/tools/perf/util/metricgroup.h
@@ -47,6 +47,7 @@ struct metric_expr {
const char *metric_expr;
/** The name of the meric such as "IPC". */
const char *metric_name;
+ const char *metric_threshold;
/**
* The "ScaleUnit" that scales and adds a unit to the metric during
* output. For example, "6.4e-05MiB" means to scale the resulting metric
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/stat-shadow.c b/tools/perf/util/stat-shadow.c
index 806b32156459..a41f186c6ec8 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/stat-shadow.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/stat-shadow.c
@@ -777,6 +777,7 @@ static int prepare_metric(struct evsel **metric_events,

static void generic_metric(struct perf_stat_config *config,
const char *metric_expr,
+ const char *metric_threshold,
struct evsel **metric_events,
struct metric_ref *metric_refs,
char *name,
@@ -789,9 +790,10 @@ static void generic_metric(struct perf_stat_config *config,
{
print_metric_t print_metric = out->print_metric;
struct expr_parse_ctx *pctx;
- double ratio, scale;
+ double ratio, scale, threshold;
int i;
void *ctxp = out->ctx;
+ const char *color = NULL;

pctx = expr__ctx_new();
if (!pctx)
@@ -811,6 +813,12 @@ static void generic_metric(struct perf_stat_config *config,
char *unit;
char metric_bf[64];

+ if (metric_threshold &&
+ expr__parse(&threshold, pctx, metric_threshold) == 0) {
+ color = fpclassify(threshold) == FP_ZERO
+ ? PERF_COLOR_GREEN : PERF_COLOR_RED;
+ }
+
if (metric_unit && metric_name) {
if (perf_pmu__convert_scale(metric_unit,
&unit, &scale) >= 0) {
@@ -823,22 +831,22 @@ static void generic_metric(struct perf_stat_config *config,
scnprintf(metric_bf, sizeof(metric_bf),
"%s %s", unit, metric_name);

- print_metric(config, ctxp, NULL, "%8.1f",
+ print_metric(config, ctxp, color, "%8.1f",
metric_bf, ratio);
} else {
- print_metric(config, ctxp, NULL, "%8.2f",
+ print_metric(config, ctxp, color, "%8.2f",
metric_name ?
metric_name :
out->force_header ? name : "",
ratio);
}
} else {
- print_metric(config, ctxp, NULL, NULL,
+ print_metric(config, ctxp, color, /*unit=*/NULL,
out->force_header ?
(metric_name ? metric_name : name) : "", 0);
}
} else {
- print_metric(config, ctxp, NULL, NULL,
+ print_metric(config, ctxp, color, /*unit=*/NULL,
out->force_header ?
(metric_name ? metric_name : name) : "", 0);
}
@@ -1214,9 +1222,9 @@ void perf_stat__print_shadow_stats(struct perf_stat_config *config,
list_for_each_entry (mexp, &me->head, nd) {
if (num++ > 0)
out->new_line(config, ctxp);
- generic_metric(config, mexp->metric_expr, mexp->metric_events,
- mexp->metric_refs, evsel->name, mexp->metric_name,
- mexp->metric_unit, mexp->runtime,
+ generic_metric(config, mexp->metric_expr, mexp->metric_threshold,
+ mexp->metric_events, mexp->metric_refs, evsel->name,
+ mexp->metric_name, mexp->metric_unit, mexp->runtime,
map_idx, out, st);
}
}
--
2.39.2.637.g21b0678d19-goog