Re: [PATCH] tools/perf/metricgroup: Fix printing event names of metric group with multiple events incase of overlapping events

[Jiri Olsa]

On Mon, Jan 20, 2020 at 02:23:19PM +0530, kajoljain wrote:
> 
> On 1/8/20 9:32 PM, Jiri Olsa wrote:
> > On Wed, Jan 08, 2020 at 02:41:35PM +0530, kajoljain wrote:
> > 
> > SNIP
> > 
> > > > > -    int i = 0;
> > > > > +    int i = 0, j = 0;
> > > > >        bool leader_found;
> > > > >          evlist__for_each_entry (perf_evlist, ev) {
> > > > > +        j++;
> > > > > +        if (j <= iterator_perf_evlist)
> > > > > +            continue;
> > > > >            if (!strcmp(ev->name, ids[i])) {
> > > > >                if (!metric_events[i])
> > > > >                    metric_events[i] = ev;
> > > > > @@ -146,6 +151,7 @@ static struct evsel *find_evsel_group(struct
> > > > > evlist *perf_evlist,
> > > > >                }
> > > > >            }
> > > > >        }
> > > > > +    iterator_perf_evlist = j;
> > > > >          return metric_events[0];
> > > > >    }
> > > > > 
> > > > Thanks for reporting and fixing this issue.
> > > > 
> > > > I just have one question, do we really need a *static variable* to track
> > > > the matched events? Perhaps using an input parameter?
> > > Hi Jin,
> > > 
> > > The other way I come up with to solve this issue is, making change in
> > > perf_evlist itself by adding some flag in event name, to keep track of
> > > matched events.
> > > 
> > > As if we change event name itself, next time when we compare it won't
> > > matched. But in that case we need to remove those flag later. Which will
> > > increase the
> > > 
> > > complexity. If you have any suggestions, please let me know.
> > we already keep evsel::cpu_iter for similar concept
> > 
> > so I guess we could have some iterator_perf_evlist variable in evlist..
> > that is if we don't find other solution (other than static varable)
> 
> Hi Jiri,
> 
>          Thanks for reviewing the patch. I checked 'evsel::cpu_iter'
> variable, I think it added recently and I am not able to find any similar
> kind of variable in
> 
>          evlist. Please let me know if my understanding is fine. Do you want
> me to add new variable in evlist itself or there is any other way possible.

please check Arnaldo's tree:
  git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/acme/linux.git perf/core

jirka