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authorKan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com>2018-05-07 23:13:43 +0200
committerArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>2018-05-16 15:01:54 +0200
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perf parse-events: Handle uncore event aliases in small groups properly
Perf stat doesn't count the uncore event aliases from the same uncore block in a group, for example: perf stat -e '{unc_m_cas_count.all,unc_m_clockticks}' -a -I 1000 # time counts unit events 1.000447342 <not counted> unc_m_cas_count.all 1.000447342 <not counted> unc_m_clockticks 2.000740654 <not counted> unc_m_cas_count.all 2.000740654 <not counted> unc_m_clockticks The output is very misleading. It gives a wrong impression that the uncore event doesn't work. An uncore block could be composed by several PMUs. An uncore event alias is a joint name which means the same event runs on all PMUs of a block. Perf doesn't support mixed events from different PMUs in the same group. It is wrong to put uncore event aliases in a big group. The right way is to split the big group into multiple small groups which only include the events from the same PMU. Only uncore event aliases from the same uncore block should be specially handled here. It doesn't make sense to mix the uncore events with other uncore events from different blocks or even core events in a group. With the patch: # time counts unit events 1.001557653 140,833 unc_m_cas_count.all 1.001557653 1,330,231,332 unc_m_clockticks 2.002709483 85,007 unc_m_cas_count.all 2.002709483 1,429,494,563 unc_m_clockticks Reported-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com> Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Cc: Agustin Vega-Frias <agustinv@codeaurora.org> Cc: Ganapatrao Kulkarni <ganapatrao.kulkarni@cavium.com> Cc: Jin Yao <yao.jin@linux.intel.com> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Shaokun Zhang <zhangshaokun@hisilicon.com> Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1525727623-19768-1-git-send-email-kan.liang@linux.intel.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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diff --git a/tools/perf/util/evsel.h b/tools/perf/util/evsel.h
index 92ec009a292d..b13f5f234c8f 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/evsel.h
+++ b/tools/perf/util/evsel.h
@@ -127,6 +127,7 @@ struct perf_evsel {
bool precise_max;
bool ignore_missing_thread;
bool forced_leader;
+ bool use_uncore_alias;
/* parse modifier helper */
int exclude_GH;
int nr_members;