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Date:   Mon, 21 Nov 2022 10:22:01 +0000
From:   John Garry <john.g.garry@...cle.com>
To:     Jing Zhang <renyu.zj@...ux.alibaba.com>,
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
        linux-perf-users@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        John Garry <john.garry@...wei.com>,
        Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>,
        James Clark <james.clark@....com>,
        Mike Leach <mike.leach@...aro.org>,
        Leo Yan <leo.yan@...aro.org>, Ian Rogers <irogers@...gle.com>
Cc:     Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
        Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...nel.org>,
        Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>,
        Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@...ux.intel.com>,
        Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...nel.org>,
        Namhyung Kim <namhyung@...nel.org>,
        Andrew Kilroy <andrew.kilroy@....com>,
        Shuai Xue <xueshuai@...ux.alibaba.com>,
        Zhuo Song <zhuo.song@...ux.alibaba.com>
Subject: Re: [External] : [RFC PATCH v2 1/6] perf vendor events arm64: Add
 topdown L1 metrics for neoverse-n2


> 
> 
> #./perf stat -e FRONTEND_BOUND sleep 1
> event syntax error: 'FRONTEND_BOUND'

For metrics, use -M, not -e

If this doesn't help, verify generated pmu-events/pmu-events.c is same 
after you make the change to try to use std arch events for metrics. 
Note that I never tested running my change.

Thanks,
John

>                       \___ parser error
> Run 'perf list' for a list of valid events
> 
>   Usage: perf stat [<options>] [<command>]
> 
>      -e, --event <event>   event selector. use 'perf list' to list available events
> 
> 
> 
> diff --git a/tools/perf/pmu-events/arch/arm64/arm/neoverse-n2/pipeline.json b/tools/perf/pmu-events/arch/arm64/arm/neoverse-n2/pipeli
> index f9fae15..1089ca0 100644
> --- a/tools/perf/pmu-events/arch/arm64/arm/neoverse-n2/pipeline.json
> +++ b/tools/perf/pmu-events/arch/arm64/arm/neoverse-n2/pipeline.json
> @@ -6,18 +6,24 @@
>           "ArchStdEvent": "STALL_BACKEND"
>       },
>       {
> -        "ArchStdEvent": "STALL_SLOT_FRONTEND"
> +        "ArchStdEvent": "STALL_SLOT_FRONTEND",
> +        "MetricExpr": "STALL_SLOT_FRONTEND - CPU_CYCLES"
>       },
>       {
>