linux-kernel - [PATCH v1 4/4] perf metric: Don't remove scale from counts

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Message-Id: <20240209204947.3873294-5-irogers@google.com>
Date: Fri,  9 Feb 2024 12:49:47 -0800
From: Ian Rogers <irogers@...gle.com>
To: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, 
	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...nel.org>, Namhyung Kim <namhyung@...nel.org>, 
	Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>, 
	Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@...ux.intel.com>, Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...nel.org>, 
	Ian Rogers <irogers@...gle.com>, Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@...el.com>, 
	John Garry <john.g.garry@...cle.com>, Kan Liang <kan.liang@...ux.intel.com>, 
	James Clark <james.clark@....com>, K Prateek Nayak <kprateek.nayak@....com>, Kaige Ye <ye@...ge.org>, 
	linux-perf-users@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH v1 4/4] perf metric: Don't remove scale from counts

Counts were switched from the scaled saved value form to the
aggregated count to avoid double accounting. When this happened the
removing of scaling for a count should have been removed, however, it
wasn't and this wasn't observed as it normally doesn't matter because
a counter's scale is 1. A problem was observed with RAPL events that
are scaled.

Fixes: 37cc8ad77cf8 ("perf metric: Directly use counts rather than saved_value")
Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@...gle.com>
---
 tools/perf/util/stat-shadow.c | 7 +------
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tools/perf/util/stat-shadow.c b/tools/perf/util/stat-shadow.c
index e31426167852..cf573ff3fa84 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/stat-shadow.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/stat-shadow.c
@@ -414,12 +414,7 @@ static int prepare_metric(struct evsel **metric_events,
 				val = NAN;
 				source_count = 0;
 			} else {
-				/*
-				 * If an event was scaled during stat gathering,
-				 * reverse the scale before computing the
-				 * metric.
-				 */
-				val = aggr->counts.val * (1.0 / metric_events[i]->scale);
+				val = aggr->counts.val;
 				source_count = evsel__source_count(metric_events[i]);
 			}
 		}
-- 
2.43.0.687.g38aa6559b0-goog