Re: [PATCH v2 2/5] perf record: Prevent override of attr->sample_period for libpfm4 events

From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
Date: Fri Sep 04 2020 - 14:50:31 EST


Em Fri, Sep 04, 2020 at 03:48:03PM -0300, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo escreveu:
> Em Fri, Sep 04, 2020 at 09:22:10AM -0700, Ian Rogers escreveu:
> > On Fri, Sep 4, 2020 at 9:03 AM Jiri Olsa <jolsa@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > On Thu, Sep 03, 2020 at 10:41:14PM -0700, Ian Rogers wrote:
> > > > On Wed, Jul 29, 2020 at 4:24 PM Ian Rogers <irogers@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > > > On Tue, Jul 28, 2020 at 9:10 AM Jiri Olsa <jolsa@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > > > > On Tue, Jul 28, 2020 at 05:59:46PM +0200, Jiri Olsa wrote:
> > > > > > > On Tue, Jul 28, 2020 at 01:57:31AM -0700, Ian Rogers wrote:
> > > > > > [jolsa@krava perf]$ sudo ./perf test 17 -v
> > > > > > 17: Setup struct perf_event_attr :
>
> > > > > > running './tests/attr/test-record-C0'
> > > > > > expected sample_period=4000, got 3000
> > > > > > FAILED './tests/attr/test-record-C0' - match failure
>
> > > > > I'm not able to reproduce this. Do you have a build configuration or
> > > > > something else to look at? The test doesn't seem obviously connected
> > > > > with this patch.
>
> > > > Jiri, any update? Thanks,
>
> > > sorry, I rebased and ran it again and it passes for me now,
> > > so it got fixed along the way
>
> > No worries, thanks for the update! It'd be nice to land this and the
> > other libpfm fixes.
>
> I applied it and it generated this regression:
>
> FAILED '/home/acme/libexec/perf-core/tests/attr/test-record-pfm-period' - match failure
>
> I'll look at the other patches that are pending in this regard to see
> what needs to be squashed so that we don't break bisect.

So, more context:

running '/home/acme/libexec/perf-core/tests/attr/test-record-pfm-period'
expected exclude_hv=0, got 1
FAILED '/home/acme/libexec/perf-core/tests/attr/test-record-pfm-period' - match failure
test child finished with -1
---- end ----
Setup struct perf_event_attr: FAILED!
[root@five ~]#

Ian, can you take a look at this?

- Arnaldo