[PATCH] perf stat: Hide invalid uncore event output for aggr mode

From: Namhyung Kim
Date: Wed Jan 25 2023 - 03:12:59 EST


The current display code for perf stat iterates given cpus and build the
aggr map to collect the event data for the aggregation mode.

But uncore events have their own cpu maps and it won't guarantee that
it'd match to the aggr map. For example, per-package uncore events
would generate a single value for each socket. When user asks per-core
aggregation mode, the output would contain 0 values for other cores.

Thus it needs to check the uncore PMU's cpumask and if it matches to the
current aggregation id.

Before:
$ sudo ./perf stat -a --per-core -e power/energy-pkg/ sleep 1

Performance counter stats for 'system wide':

S0-D0-C0 1 3.73 Joules power/energy-pkg/
S0-D0-C1 0 <not counted> Joules power/energy-pkg/
S0-D0-C2 0 <not counted> Joules power/energy-pkg/
S0-D0-C3 0 <not counted> Joules power/energy-pkg/

1.001404046 seconds time elapsed

Some events weren't counted. Try disabling the NMI watchdog:
echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/nmi_watchdog
perf stat ...
echo 1 > /proc/sys/kernel/nmi_watchdog

The core 1, 2 and 3 should not be printed because the event is handled
in a cpu in the core 0 only. With this change, the output becomes like
below.

After:
$ sudo ./perf stat -a --per-core -e power/energy-pkg/ sleep 1

Performance counter stats for 'system wide':

S0-D0-C0 1 2.09 Joules power/energy-pkg/

Fixes: b89761351089 ("perf stat: Update event skip condition for system-wide per-thread mode and merged uncore and hybrid events")
Cc: Athira Jajeev <atrajeev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Michael Petlan <mpetlan@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
tools/perf/util/stat-display.c | 37 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------
1 file changed, 31 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tools/perf/util/stat-display.c b/tools/perf/util/stat-display.c
index 8bd8b0142630..b9dcb13650d0 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/stat-display.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/stat-display.c
@@ -787,6 +787,22 @@ static void uniquify_counter(struct perf_stat_config *config, struct evsel *coun
uniquify_event_name(counter);
}

+static bool check_uncore_event_aggr(struct perf_stat_config *config,
+ struct evsel *counter,
+ struct aggr_cpu_id *id)
+{
+ struct perf_cpu cpu;
+ int idx;
+
+ perf_cpu_map__for_each_cpu(cpu, idx, counter->core.own_cpus) {
+ struct aggr_cpu_id own_id = config->aggr_get_id(config, cpu);
+
+ if (aggr_cpu_id__equal(id, &own_id))
+ return true;
+ }
+ return false;
+}
+
static void print_counter_aggrdata(struct perf_stat_config *config,
struct evsel *counter, int s,
struct outstate *os)
@@ -814,12 +830,21 @@ static void print_counter_aggrdata(struct perf_stat_config *config,
ena = aggr->counts.ena;
run = aggr->counts.run;

- /*
- * Skip value 0 when enabling --per-thread globally, otherwise it will
- * have too many 0 output.
- */
- if (val == 0 && config->aggr_mode == AGGR_THREAD && config->system_wide)
- return;
+ if (val == 0) {
+ /*
+ * Skip value 0 when enabling --per-thread globally,
+ * otherwise it will have too many 0 output.
+ */
+ if (config->aggr_mode == AGGR_THREAD && config->system_wide)
+ return;
+ /*
+ * Skip value 0 when it's an uncore event and the given aggr id
+ * does not belong to the PMU cpumask.
+ */
+ if (counter->core.requires_cpu &&
+ !check_uncore_event_aggr(config, counter, &id))
+ return;
+ }

if (!metric_only) {
if (config->json_output)
--
2.39.1.405.gd4c25cc71f-goog