Re: [PATCH v2 0/7] Share events between metrics

[Jiri Olsa]

On Thu, May 21, 2020 at 02:22:35PM -0300, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote:
> Em Thu, May 21, 2020 at 01:43:25PM +0200, Jiri Olsa escreveu:
> > On Wed, May 20, 2020 at 11:20:04AM -0700, Ian Rogers wrote:
> > 
> > SNIP
> > 
> > > There are 5 out of 12 metric groups where no events are shared, such
> > > as Power, however, disabling grouping of events always reduces the
> > > number of events.
> > > 
> > > The result for Memory_BW needs explanation:
> > > 
> > > Metric group: Memory_BW
> > >  - No merging (old default, now --metric-no-merge): 9
> > >  - Merging over metrics (new default)             : 5
> > >  - No event groups and merging (--metric-no-group): 11
> > > 
> > > Both with and without merging the groups fail to be set up and so the
> > > event counts here are for broken metrics. The --metric-no-group number
> > > is accurate as all the events are scheduled. Ideally a constraint
> > > would be added for these metrics in the json code to avoid grouping.
> > > 
> > > v2. rebases on kernel/git/acme/linux.git branch tmp.perf/core, fixes a
> > > missing comma with metric lists (reported-by Jiri Olsa
> > > <jolsa@xxxxxxxxxx>) and adds early returns to metricgroup__add_metric
> > > (suggested-by Jiri Olsa).
> > 
> > Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Applied and pushed to tmp.perf/core, will move to perf/core as soon as
> testing finishes,

I checked tmp.perf/core and I'm getting segfault for 'perf test expr'

	 7: Simple expression parser                              :
	Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
	0x000000000067841e in hashmap_find_entry (map=0x7fffffffd0c0, key=0xc83b30, hash=9893851511679796638, pprev=0x0, entry=0x7fffffffc658) at hashmap.c:131
	131             for (prev_ptr = &map->buckets[hash], cur = *prev_ptr;
	(gdb) bt
	#0  0x000000000067841e in hashmap_find_entry (map=0x7fffffffd0c0, key=0xc83b30, hash=9893851511679796638, pprev=0x0, entry=0x7fffffffc658) at hashmap.c:131
	#1  0x000000000067853a in hashmap__insert (map=0x7fffffffd0c0, key=0xc83b30, value=0x0, strategy=HASHMAP_SET, old_key=0x7fffffffc718, 
	    old_value=0x7fffffffc710) at hashmap.c:160
	#2  0x00000000005d3209 in hashmap__set (map=0x7fffffffd0c0, key=0xc83b30, value=0x0, old_key=0x7fffffffc718, old_value=0x7fffffffc710)
	    at /home/jolsa/kernel/linux-perf/tools/perf/util/hashmap.h:107
	#3  0x00000000005d3386 in expr__add_id (ctx=0x7fffffffd0c0, name=0xc83b30 "FOO", val=0) at util/expr.c:45
	#4  0x00000000005d27ee in expr_parse (final_val=0x0, ctx=0x7fffffffd0c0, scanner=0xc87990) at util/expr.y:63
	#5  0x00000000005d35b7 in __expr__parse (val=0x0, ctx=0x7fffffffd0c0, expr=0x75a84b "FOO + BAR + BAZ + BOZO", start=259, runtime=1) at util/expr.c:102
	#6  0x00000000005d36c6 in expr__find_other (expr=0x75a84b "FOO + BAR + BAZ + BOZO", one=0x75a791 "FOO", ctx=0x7fffffffd0c0, runtime=1) at util/expr.c:121
	#7  0x00000000004e3aaf in test__expr (t=0xa7bd40 <generic_tests+384>, subtest=-1) at tests/expr.c:55
	#8  0x00000000004b5651 in run_test (test=0xa7bd40 <generic_tests+384>, subtest=-1) at tests/builtin-test.c:393
	#9  0x00000000004b5787 in test_and_print (t=0xa7bd40 <generic_tests+384>, force_skip=false, subtest=-1) at tests/builtin-test.c:423
	#10 0x00000000004b61c4 in __cmd_test (argc=1, argv=0x7fffffffd7f0, skiplist=0x0) at tests/builtin-test.c:628
	#11 0x00000000004b6911 in cmd_test (argc=1, argv=0x7fffffffd7f0) at tests/builtin-test.c:772
	#12 0x00000000004e977b in run_builtin (p=0xa7eee8 <commands+552>, argc=3, argv=0x7fffffffd7f0) at perf.c:312
	#13 0x00000000004e99e8 in handle_internal_command (argc=3, argv=0x7fffffffd7f0) at perf.c:364
	#14 0x00000000004e9b2f in run_argv (argcp=0x7fffffffd64c, argv=0x7fffffffd640) at perf.c:408
	#15 0x00000000004e9efb in main (argc=3, argv=0x7fffffffd7f0) at perf.c:538

attached patch fixes it for me, but I'm not sure this
should be necessary

jirka


---
diff --git a/tools/perf/tests/expr.c b/tools/perf/tests/expr.c
index 1cb02ca2b15f..21693fe516c1 100644
--- a/tools/perf/tests/expr.c
+++ b/tools/perf/tests/expr.c
@@ -52,6 +52,7 @@ int test__expr(struct test *t __maybe_unused, int subtest __maybe_unused)
 	TEST_ASSERT_VAL("missing operand", ret == -1);
 
 	expr__ctx_clear(&ctx);
+	expr__ctx_init(&ctx);
 	TEST_ASSERT_VAL("find other",
 			expr__find_other("FOO + BAR + BAZ + BOZO", "FOO",
 					 &ctx, 1) == 0);
@@ -64,6 +65,7 @@ int test__expr(struct test *t __maybe_unused, int subtest __maybe_unused)
 						    (void **)&val_ptr));
 
 	expr__ctx_clear(&ctx);
+	expr__ctx_init(&ctx);
 	TEST_ASSERT_VAL("find other",
 			expr__find_other("EVENT1\\,param\\=?@ + EVENT2\\,param\\=?@",
 					 NULL, &ctx, 3) == 0);