Re: [PATCH v4 2/3] perf stat: Add JSON output option

From: Ian Rogers
Date: Tue May 31 2022 - 19:14:19 EST


On Tue, May 31, 2022 at 3:46 PM Namhyung Kim <namhyung@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hi Ian,
>
> On Tue, May 24, 2022 at 10:38 PM Ian Rogers <irogers@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > From: Claire Jensen <cjense@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > CSV output is tricky to format and column layout changes are susceptible
> > to breaking parsers. New JSON-formatted output has variable names to
> > identify fields that are consistent and informative, making
> > the output parseable.
> >
> > CSV output example:
> >
> > 1.20,msec,task-clock:u,1204272,100.00,0.697,CPUs utilized
> > 0,,context-switches:u,1204272,100.00,0.000,/sec
> > 0,,cpu-migrations:u,1204272,100.00,0.000,/sec
> > 70,,page-faults:u,1204272,100.00,58.126,K/sec
> >
> > JSON output example:
> >
> > {"counter-value" : "3805.723968", "unit" : "msec", "event" :
> > "cpu-clock", "event-runtime" : 3805731510100.00, "pcnt-running"
> > : 100.00, "metric-value" : 4.007571, "metric-unit" : "CPUs utilized"}
> > {"counter-value" : "6166.000000", "unit" : "", "event" :
> > "context-switches", "event-runtime" : 3805723045100.00, "pcnt-running"
> > : 100.00, "metric-value" : 1.620191, "metric-unit" : "K/sec"}
> > {"counter-value" : "466.000000", "unit" : "", "event" :
> > "cpu-migrations", "event-runtime" : 3805727613100.00, "pcnt-running"
> > : 100.00, "metric-value" : 122.447136, "metric-unit" : "/sec"}
> > {"counter-value" : "208.000000", "unit" : "", "event" :
> > "page-faults", "event-runtime" : 3805726799100.00, "pcnt-running"
> > : 100.00, "metric-value" : 54.654516, "metric-unit" : "/sec"}
> >
> > Also added documentation for JSON option.
> > There is some tidy up of CSV code including a potential memory over run
> > in the os.nfields set up. To facilitate this an AGGR_MAX value is added.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Claire Jensen <cjense@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Your sign-off as well?

Doh:
Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@xxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks,
Ian

> Anyway, I think there are places to clean up this part of code
> more but that's not a part of the work. Maybe I need to find
> some time to do that later.
>
> Acked-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Thanks,
> Namhyung