Date:   Fri, 26 Oct 2018 11:04:45 -0400
From:   Sébastien Boisvert <sboisvert@...le.com>
To:     Thomas Richter <tmricht@...ux.ibm.com>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-perf-users@...r.kernel.org,
        acme@...nel.org
Cc:     brueckner@...ux.vnet.ibm.com, schwidefsky@...ibm.com,
        heiko.carstens@...ibm.com, kan.liang@...ux.intel.com,
        stable@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] perf/stat: Handle different PMU names with common prefix

On 2018-10-23 11:16 a.m., Thomas Richter wrote:
> On s390 the CPU Measurement Facility for counters now supports
> 2 PMUs named cpum_cf (CPU Measurement Facility for counters) and
> cpum_cf_diag (CPU Measurement Facility for diagnostic counters)
> for one and the same CPU.
> 
> Running command
> 
>  [root@...lp76 perf]# ./perf stat -e tx_c_tend \
> 	 -- ~/mytests/cf-tx-events 1
> 

Is tx_c_tend related to these ?

  tx-abort OR cpu/tx-abort/                          [Kernel PMU event]
  tx-capacity OR cpu/tx-capacity/                    [Kernel PMU event]
  tx-commit OR cpu/tx-commit/                        [Kernel PMU event]
  tx-conflict OR cpu/tx-conflict/                    [Kernel PMU event]
  tx-start OR cpu/tx-start/                          [Kernel PMU event]


>  Measuring transactions
>  TX_C_TABORT_NO_SPECIAL: 0 expected:0
>  TX_C_TABORT_SPECIAL: 0 expected:0
>  TX_C_TEND: 1 expected:1
>  TX_NC_TABORT: 11 expected:11
>  TX_NC_TEND: 1 expected:1
> 
>  Performance counter stats for '/root/mytests/cf-tx-events 1':
> 
>   2      tx_c_tend
> 
>       0.002120091 seconds time elapsed
> 
>       0.000121000 seconds user
>       0.002127000 seconds sys
> 
>  [root@...lp76 perf]#
> 
> displays output which is unexpected (and wrong):
> 
>   2      tx_c_tend
> 
> The test program definitely triggers only one transaction, as shown
> in line 'TX_C_TEND: 1 expected:1'.

OK, something is done twice in perf stat, but should be done once.

> 
> This is caused by the following call sequence:
> 
> pmu_lookup() scans and installs a PMU.
> +--> pmu_aliases() parses all aliases in directory
> 		.../<pmu-name>/events/* which are file names.
>      +--> pmu_aliases_parse() Read each file in directory and create
>                       an new alias entry. This is done with
>           +--> perf_pmu__new_alias() and
> 	       +--> __perf_pmu__new_alias() which also check for
> 	                   identical alias names.
> 
> After pmu_aliases() returns, a complete list of event names
> for this pmu has been created. Now function
> 
> pmu_add_cpu_aliases()   is called to add the events listed in the json
> |                       files to the alias list of the cpu.
> +--> perf_pmu__find_map()  Returns a pointer to the json events.
> 
> Now function pmu_add_cpu_aliases() scans through all events listed
> in the JSON files for this CPU.

Are these JSON files temporary in nature ?

> Each json event pmu name is compared with the current PMU being
> built up and if they mismatch, the json event is added to the
> current PMUs alias list.
> To avoid duplicate entries the following comparison is done:
> 
> 	if (!is_arm_pmu_core(name)) {
> 	     pname = pe->pmu ? pe->pmu : "cpu";
> 	     if (strncmp(pname, name, strlen(pname)))
> 		     continue;
>      }

Is this the test to know whether a PMU event must be added or not ?

> 
> The culprit is the strncmp() function.
> 
> Using current s390 PMU naming, the first PMU is 'cpum_cf'
> and a long list of events is added, among them 'tx_c_tend'
> 
> When the second PMU named 'cpum_cf_diag' is added, only one event
> named 'CF_DIAG' is added by the pmu_aliases()  function.
> 
> Now function pmu_add_cpu_aliases() is invoked for PMU 'cpum_cf_diag'.
> Since the CPUID string is the same for both PMUs, json file events
> for PMU named 'cpum_cf' are added to the PMU 'cpm_cf_diag'
> 
> This happens because the strncmp() actually compares:
>>      strncmp("cpum_cf", "cpum_cf_diag", 6);

I fail to see how these argument values can be generated by this code:

 	     pname = pe->pmu ? pe->pmu : "cpu";
 	     if (strncmp(pname, name, strlen(pname)))

The 3rd argument is the length of the first argument, pname.

With "cpum_cf", it should be 7, not 6.



> 
> The first parameter is the pmu name taken from the event in
> the json file. The second parameter is the pmu name of the PMU
> currently being built.
> They are different, but the length of the compare only tests the
> common prefix and this returns 0(true) when it should return false.
> 

The 6 comes from strlen(pname). In that case, it is neither the length of
"cpum_cf" (7) or "cpum_cf_diag" (12).

> Now all events for PMU cpum_cf are added to the alias list for pmu
> cpum_cf_diag.
> 
> Later on in function parse_events_add_pmu() the event 'tx_c_end' is
> searched in all available PMUs and found twice, adding it two
> times to the evsel_list global variable which is the root
> of all events. This results in a counter value of 2 instead
> of 1.

The counter value of 2 is 1 + 1 since both PMU events 'tx_c_end' that
were added got a +1.

> 
> Output with this patch:
> 
>  [root@...lp76 perf]# ./perf stat -e tx_c_tend \
> 			-- ~/mytests/cf-tx-events 1
>  Measuring transactions
>  TX_C_TABORT_NO_SPECIAL: 0 expected:0
>  TX_C_TABORT_SPECIAL: 0 expected:0
>  TX_C_TEND: 1 expected:1
>  TX_NC_TABORT: 11 expected:11
>  TX_NC_TEND: 1 expected:1
> 
>  Performance counter stats for '/root/mytests/cf-tx-events 1':
> 
>                   1      tx_c_tend
> 

OK, now that's 1, like in your expected test value:

  TX_C_TEND: 1 expected:1

>       0.001815365 seconds time elapsed
> 
>       0.000123000 seconds user
>       0.001756000 seconds sys
> 
>  [root@...lp76 perf]#
> 
> Fixes: 292c34c10249 ("perf pmu: Fix core PMU alias list for X86 platform")
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Richter <tmricht@...ux.ibm.com>
> Reviewed-by: Hendrik Brueckner <brueckner@...ux.ibm.com>
> Cc: Kan Liang <kan.liang@...ux.intel.com>
> Cc: <stable@...r.kernel.org> # 4.18+
> ---
>  tools/perf/util/pmu.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/tools/perf/util/pmu.c b/tools/perf/util/pmu.c
> index 7799788f662f..7e49baad304d 100644
> --- a/tools/perf/util/pmu.c
> +++ b/tools/perf/util/pmu.c
> @@ -773,7 +773,7 @@ static void pmu_add_cpu_aliases(struct list_head *head, struct perf_pmu *pmu)
>  
>  		if (!is_arm_pmu_core(name)) {
>  			pname = pe->pmu ? pe->pmu : "cpu";
> -			if (strncmp(pname, name, strlen(pname)))
> +			if (strcmp(pname, name))
>  				continue;
>  		}
>  
> 

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