Re: [PATCH v1 0/5] NMI warning and debug improvements

From: Ian Rogers
Date: Tue Apr 01 2025 - 18:05:22 EST


On Mon, Mar 17, 2025 at 9:14 PM Ian Rogers <irogers@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> The NMI warning wouldn't fire even if all the events were for one PMU
> type. Remove a nearby, and no longer useful, mixed hardware event
> group function. Improve the evlist to string function and dump it in
> verbose mode after the reordered events warning.
>
> As commonly happens legacy events like instructions will be uniquified
> to hybrid events like cpu_core/instructions/, even though the
> encodings differ. To make this correct either:
> https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20250312211623.2495798-1-irogers@xxxxxxxxxx/
> or:
> https://lore.kernel.org/linux-perf-users/20250109222109.567031-1-irogers@xxxxxxxxxx/
> needs merging.
>
> Ian Rogers (5):
> perf stat: Better hybrid support for the NMI watchdog warning
> perf stat: Remove print_mixed_hw_group_error
> perf evlist: Refactor evlist__scnprintf_evsels
> perf evlist: Add groups to evlist__format_evsels
> perf parse-events: Add debug dump of evlist if reordered

Ping.

Thanks,
Ian

> tools/perf/builtin-record.c | 9 ++++---
> tools/perf/util/evlist.c | 32 +++++++++++++++---------
> tools/perf/util/evlist.h | 3 ++-
> tools/perf/util/parse-events.c | 16 +++++++++---
> tools/perf/util/stat-display.c | 45 ++++++++++------------------------
> tools/perf/util/stat.h | 1 -
> 6 files changed, 55 insertions(+), 51 deletions(-)
>
> --
> 2.49.0.rc1.451.g8f38331e32-goog
>