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Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2023 10:29:12 -0500
From: "Liang, Kan" <kan.liang@...ux.intel.com>
To: Ian Rogers <irogers@...gle.com>,
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
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Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 00/11] Better fixes for grouping of events
On 2023-03-08 5:59 p.m., Ian Rogers wrote:
> The rules for grouping events have grown more complex. Topdown events
> must be grouped, but flags like --metric-no-group and flags on metrics
> don't respect this. Uncore events may be expanded using wild cards for
> PMU names, but then the events need reordering so the group members
> are adjacent. Rather than fixing metrics, this change fixes the main
> event parsing code to first sort and then regroup evsels.
>
> As this is shared functionality changes to it should cause
> concern. The change is done with the intent of simplifying and making
> more robust the grouping logic, examples are given. If additional
> changes are necessary, they are most likely necessary to the
> evsel__group_pmu_name logic as the code avoids breaking groups that
> are on the same "group" PMU. The group_pmu_name is a variant of the
> pmu_name tweaked in the case of software and aux events, that use
> groups in a slightly different manner to conventional events.
>
> The code was manually tested as well as passing perf test on a Intel
> tigerlake CPU with intel-pt.
>
> v4. Move the Intel pmu->auxtrace initialization to the existing
> perf_pmu__get_default_config as suggested by Adrian Hunter.
> v3. Rename pmu_name to group_pmu_name and add patch to warn when
> events are regrouped as requested by Namhyung.
> v2. Fix up the commit message on 4/10 (thanks Arnaldo). Drop
> unnecessary v1 5/10 (thanks Kan). evlist->core.nr_groups wasn't
> being correctly maintained after the sort/regrouping and so the
> new patch 10/10 removes that variable and computes it from the
> evlist when necessary, generally just tests.
>
> Ian Rogers (11):
> libperf evlist: Avoid a use of evsel idx
> perf stat: Don't remove all grouped events when CPU maps disagree
> perf pmu: Earlier PMU auxtrace initialization
> perf stat: Modify the group test
> perf evsel: Allow const evsel for certain accesses
> perf evsel: Add function to compute group PMU name
> perf parse-events: Pass ownership of the group name
> perf parse-events: Sort and group parsed events
> perf evsel: Remove use_uncore_alias
> perf evlist: Remove nr_groups
> perf parse-events: Warn when events are regrouped
>
Thanks Ian. The patch series looks good to me.
Reviewed-by: Kan Liang <kan.liang@...ux.intel.com>
Thanks,
Kan
> tools/lib/perf/evlist.c | 31 ++-
> tools/lib/perf/include/internal/evlist.h | 1 -
> tools/lib/perf/include/perf/evlist.h | 1 +
> tools/perf/arch/x86/util/auxtrace.c | 4 -
> tools/perf/arch/x86/util/evlist.c | 39 ++--
> tools/perf/arch/x86/util/pmu.c | 8 +-
> tools/perf/builtin-record.c | 2 +-
> tools/perf/builtin-report.c | 2 +-
> tools/perf/builtin-stat.c | 24 +-
> tools/perf/tests/bpf.c | 1 -
> tools/perf/tests/parse-events.c | 24 +-
> tools/perf/tests/pfm.c | 12 +-
> tools/perf/tests/pmu-events.c | 2 +-
> tools/perf/util/evlist.c | 2 +-
> tools/perf/util/evlist.h | 8 +-
> tools/perf/util/evsel.c | 27 ++-
> tools/perf/util/evsel.h | 8 +-
> tools/perf/util/header.c | 3 +-
> tools/perf/util/metricgroup.c | 3 +-
> tools/perf/util/parse-events.c | 268 +++++++++++------------
> tools/perf/util/parse-events.h | 14 +-
> tools/perf/util/parse-events.y | 28 +--
> tools/perf/util/pfm.c | 1 -
> tools/perf/util/pmu.c | 6 +-
> tools/perf/util/python.c | 2 +-
> tools/perf/util/stat-shadow.c | 2 +-
> 26 files changed, 277 insertions(+), 246 deletions(-)
>
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