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Message-ID: <Yjo3Y+zLljKU1lVO@kernel.org>
Date:   Tue, 22 Mar 2022 17:53:55 -0300
From:   Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...nel.org>
To:     "Liang, Kan" <kan.liang@...ux.intel.com>
Cc:     Ian Rogers <irogers@...gle.com>,
        Zhengjun Xing <zhengjun.xing@...ux.intel.com>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
        Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>,
        Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@...ux.intel.com>,
        Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...hat.com>,
        Namhyung Kim <namhyung@...nel.org>,
        Maxime Coquelin <mcoquelin.stm32@...il.com>,
        Alexandre Torgue <alexandre.torgue@...s.st.com>,
        Andi Kleen <ak@...ux.intel.com>,
        James Clark <james.clark@....com>,
        John Garry <john.garry@...wei.com>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-perf-users@...r.kernel.org,
        Stephane Eranian <eranian@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] perf parse-events: Move slots only with topdown

Em Tue, Mar 22, 2022 at 07:48:48AM -0400, Liang, Kan escreveu:
> On 3/21/2022 6:33 PM, Ian Rogers wrote:
> > If slots isn't with a topdown event then moving it is unnecessary. For
> > example {instructions, slots} is re-ordered:
> > 
> > $ perf stat -e '{instructions,slots}' -a sleep 1
> > 
> >   Performance counter stats for 'system wide':
> > 
> >         936,600,825      slots
> >         144,440,968      instructions
> > 
> >         1.006061423 seconds time elapsed
> > 
> > Which can break tools expecting the command line order to match the
> > printed order. It is necessary to move the slots event first when it
> > appears with topdown events. Add extra checking so that the slots event
> > is only moved in the case of there being a topdown event like:
> > 
> > $ perf stat -e '{instructions,slots,topdown-fe-bound}' -a sleep 1
> > 
> >   Performance counter stats for 'system wide':
> > 
> >          2427568570      slots
> >           300927614      instructions
> >           551021649      topdown-fe-bound
> > 
> >         1.001771803 seconds time elapsed
> > 
> > Fixes: 94dbfd6781a0 ("perf parse-events: Architecture specific leader override")
> > Reported-by: Kan Liang <kan.liang@...ux.intel.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@...gle.com>
> 
> Thanks Ian. The patch works well.
> 
> Tested-by: Kan Liang <kan.liang@...ux.intel.com>

Thanks, applied.

- Arnaldo

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