linux-kernel - [PATCH 5/9] perf stat: Fix --metric-only --json output

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Date:   Mon,  7 Nov 2022 13:33:10 -0800
From:   Namhyung Kim <namhyung@...nel.org>
To:     Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...nel.org>,
        Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...nel.org>
Cc:     Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Ian Rogers <irogers@...gle.com>,
        Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@...el.com>,
        linux-perf-users@...r.kernel.org,
        Kan Liang <kan.liang@...ux.intel.com>,
        Zhengjun Xing <zhengjun.xing@...ux.intel.com>,
        James Clark <james.clark@....com>
Subject: [PATCH 5/9] perf stat: Fix --metric-only --json output

Currently it prints all metric headers for JSON output.  But actually it
skips some metrics with valid_only_metric().  So the output looks like:

  $ perf stat --metric-only --json true
  {"unit" : "CPUs utilized", "unit" : "/sec", "unit" : "/sec", "unit" : "/sec", "unit" : "GHz", "unit" : "insn per cycle", "unit" : "/sec", "unit" : "branch-misses of all branches"}
  {"metric-value" : "3.861"}{"metric-value" : "0.79"}{"metric-value" : "3.04"}

As you can see there are 8 units in the header but only 3 metric-values
are there.  It should skip the unused headers as well.  Also each unit
should be printed as a separate object like metric values.

With this patch:

  $ perf stat --metric-only --json true
  {"unit" : "GHz"}{"unit" : "insn per cycle"}{"unit" : "branch-misses of all branches"}
  {"metric-value" : "4.166"}{"metric-value" : "0.73"}{"metric-value" : "2.96"}

Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@...nel.org>
---
 tools/perf/util/stat-display.c | 22 +++-------------------
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tools/perf/util/stat-display.c b/tools/perf/util/stat-display.c
index 115477461224..515fb6db3d67 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/stat-display.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/stat-display.c
@@ -430,12 +430,12 @@ static void print_metric_header(struct perf_stat_config *config,
 	    os->evsel->priv != os->evsel->evlist->selected->priv)
 		return;
 
-	if (!valid_only_metric(unit) && !config->json_output)
+	if (!valid_only_metric(unit))
 		return;
 	unit = fixunit(tbuf, os->evsel, unit);
 
 	if (config->json_output)
-		fprintf(os->fh, "\"unit\" : \"%s\"", unit);
+		fprintf(os->fh, "{\"unit\" : \"%s\"}", unit);
 	else if (config->csv_output)
 		fprintf(os->fh, "%s%s", unit, config->csv_sep);
 	else
@@ -847,10 +847,6 @@ static void print_metric_headers(struct perf_stat_config *config,
 		.new_line = new_line_metric,
 		.force_header = true,
 	};
-	bool first = true;
-
-	if (config->json_output && !config->interval)
-		fprintf(config->output, "{");
 
 	if (prefix && !config->json_output)
 		fprintf(config->output, "%s", prefix);
@@ -871,18 +867,12 @@ static void print_metric_headers(struct perf_stat_config *config,
 	evlist__for_each_entry(evlist, counter) {
 		os.evsel = counter;
 
-		if (!first && config->json_output)
-			fprintf(config->output, ", ");
-		first = false;
-
 		perf_stat__print_shadow_stats(config, counter, 0,
 					      0,
 					      &out,
 					      &config->metric_events,
 					      &rt_stat);
 	}
-	if (config->json_output)
-		fprintf(config->output, "}");
 	fputc('\n', config->output);
 }
 
@@ -954,14 +944,8 @@ static void print_interval(struct perf_stat_config *config,
 		}
 	}
 
-	if ((num_print_interval == 0 || config->interval_clear)
-			 && metric_only && !config->json_output)
+	if ((num_print_interval == 0 || config->interval_clear) && metric_only)
 		print_metric_headers(config, evlist, " ", true);
-	if ((num_print_interval == 0 || config->interval_clear)
-			 && metric_only && config->json_output) {
-		fprintf(output, "{");
-		print_metric_headers(config, evlist, " ", true);
-	}
 	if (++num_print_interval == 25)
 		num_print_interval = 0;
 }
-- 
2.38.1.431.g37b22c650d-goog