Re: [PATCH v2 06/18] perf s390 s390_cpumcfdg_dump: Don't scan all PMUs
From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
Date: Fri Aug 25 2023 - 21:39:56 EST
Em Fri, Aug 25, 2023 at 03:56:54PM -0700, Ian Rogers escreveu:
> On Fri, Aug 25, 2023 at 1:56 PM Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > [root@kernelqe3 linux]# git bisect bad
> > 2e255b4f9f41f137d9e3dc4fae3603a9c2c3dd28 is the first bad commit
> > commit 2e255b4f9f41f137d9e3dc4fae3603a9c2c3dd28
> > Author: Ian Rogers <irogers@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Date: Wed Aug 23 21:13:16 2023 -0700
> >
> > perf jevents: Group events by PMU
> >
> > Prior to this change a cpuid would map to a list of events where the PMU
> > would be encoded alongside the event information. This change breaks
> > apart each group of events so that there is a group per PMU. A new table
> > is added with the PMU's name and the list of events, the original table
> > now holding an array of these per PMU tables.
> >
> > These changes are to make it easier to get per PMU information about
> > events, rather than the current approach of scanning all events. The
> > perf binary size with BPF skeletons on x86 is reduced by about 1%. The
> > unidentified PMU is now always expanded to "cpu".
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@xxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Gaosheng Cui <cuigaosheng1@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: James Clark <james.clark@xxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Jing Zhang <renyu.zj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: John Garry <john.g.garry@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Kajol Jain <kjain@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Kan Liang <kan.liang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@xxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Ravi Bangoria <ravi.bangoria@xxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Rob Herring <robh@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230824041330.266337-5-irogers@xxxxxxxxxx
> > Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > tools/perf/pmu-events/jevents.py | 181 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------
> > tools/perf/tests/pmu-events.c | 30 ++++---
> > 2 files changed, 154 insertions(+), 57 deletions(-)
> > [root@kernelqe3 linux]#
>
> This change defaulted events without a specified PMU to being for the
> PMU 'cpu', so that events in pmu-events.c were associated with a PMU
> and we could find per-PMU information easily. The test events have no
> PMU and so this has broken s390 where the the PMU should be "cpum_cf".
> It has probably also broken x86 hybrid and arm where their default PMU
> isn't cpu. I'll work on a fix, but the problem will be limited to the
> test.
Ok, please use tmp.perf-tools-next as the basis for your work, that is
what I have right now.
- Arnaldo