Re: [PATCH v1] perf test: Avoid hard coded metrics in stat std output test

[Ian Rogers]

On Fri, Apr 19, 2024 at 6:54 AM Liang, Kan <kan.liang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> On 2024-04-17 2:32 p.m., Ian Rogers wrote:
> > Hard coded metric names fail on ARM testing.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> >  tools/perf/tests/shell/stat+std_output.sh | 2 +-
> >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/tools/perf/tests/shell/stat+std_output.sh b/tools/perf/tests/shell/stat+std_output.sh
> > index cbf2894b2c84..845f83213855 100755
> > --- a/tools/perf/tests/shell/stat+std_output.sh
> > +++ b/tools/perf/tests/shell/stat+std_output.sh
> > @@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ stat_output=$(mktemp /tmp/__perf_test.stat_output.std.XXXXX)
> >
> >  event_name=(cpu-clock task-clock context-switches cpu-migrations page-faults stalled-cycles-frontend stalled-cycles-backend cycles instructions branches branch-misses)
> >  event_metric=("CPUs utilized" "CPUs utilized" "/sec" "/sec" "/sec" "frontend cycles idle" "backend cycles idle" "GHz" "insn per cycle" "/sec" "of all branches")
> > -skip_metric=("stalled cycles per insn" "tma_" "retiring" "frontend_bound" "bad_speculation" "backend_bound")
> > +skip_metric=($(perf list --raw Default 2> /dev/null))
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> The "perf list --raw Default" only gives the topdown metrics.
> The "stalled cycles per insn" is not covered.
> The check should skip the line of "stalled cycles per insn" as well.
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>      3,856,436,920 stalled-cycles-frontend   #   74.09% frontend cycles idle
>      1,600,790,871 stalled-cycles-backend    #   30.75% backend  cycles idle
>      2,603,501,247 instructions              #    0.50  insns per cycle
>                                              #    1.48  stalled cycles
> per insn
>        484,357,498 branches                  #  283.455 M/sec
> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/tools/perf/builtin-stat.c#n24
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> The newer Intel CPU doesn't have the stalled-cycles-* events. But it
> seems power and older x86 CPU have the events.

Oh, sigh. This test should really ignore lines like that. How much do
we care about these metrics? The RISC-V event parsing change:
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20240416061533.921723-1-irogers@xxxxxxxxxx/
means that legacy hardware events will be uncommon and we need to
adapt the hard coded metrics in stat-shadow.c to json ones. Once they
are json metrics they will be in Default.

Thanks,
Ian

> Thanks,
> Kan
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> >
> >  cleanup() {
> >    rm -f "${stat_output}"