Re: [PATCH v1 00/51] shadow metric clean up and improvements

From: Ian Rogers
Date: Sun Feb 19 2023 - 10:43:43 EST


On Sun, Feb 19, 2023, 3:17 AM Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Em Sun, Feb 19, 2023 at 01:27:57AM -0800, Ian Rogers escreveu:
> > Recently the shadow stat metrics broke due to repeated aggregation and
> > a quick fix was applied:
> > https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20230209064447.83733-1-irogers@xxxxxxxxxx/
> > This is the longer fix but one that comes with some extras. To avoid
> > fixing issues for hard coded metrics, the topdown, SMI cost and
> > transaction flags are moved into json metrics. A side effect of this
> > is that TopdownL1 metrics will now be displayed when supported, if no
> > "perf stat" events are specified.
> >
> > Another fix included here is for event grouping as raised in:
> > https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CA+icZUU_ew7pzWJJZLbj1xsU6MQTPrj8tkFfDhNdTDRQfGUBMQ@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx/
> > Metrics are now tagged with NMI and SMT flags, meaning that the events
> > shouldn't be grouped if the NMI watchdog is enabled or SMT is enabled.
> >
> > Given the two issues, the metrics are re-generated and the patches
> > also include the latest Intel vendor events. The changes to the metric
> > generation code can be seen in:
> > https://github.com/intel/perfmon/pull/56
> >
> > Hard coded metrics support thresholds, the patches add this ability to
> > json metrics so that the hard coded metrics can be removed. Migrate
> > remaining hard coded metrics to looking up counters from the
> > evlist/aggregation count. Finally, get rid of the saved_value logic
> > and thereby look to fix the aggregation issues.
> >
> > Some related fix ups and code clean ups are included in the changes,
> > in particular to aid with the code's readability and to keep topdown
> > documentation in sync.
>
> That is great work but won't have a reasonable time sitting on
> linux-next to make it into 6.3.
>
> I have just applied it locally for the usual set of tests, that I'll
> report back here.


Ugh. I'm guessing it won't be useful if I point out more things broken
with the current workaround, like metrics with --repeat :-/

Thanks,
Ian

> - Arnaldo
>
> > Ian Rogers (51):
> > perf tools: Ensure evsel name is initialized
> > perf metrics: Improve variable names
> > perf pmu-events: Remove aggr_mode from pmu_event
> > perf pmu-events: Change aggr_mode to be an enum
> > perf pmu-events: Change deprecated to be a bool
> > perf pmu-events: Change perpkg to be a bool
> > perf expr: Make the online topology accessible globally
> > perf pmu-events: Make the metric_constraint an enum
> > perf pmu-events: Don't '\0' terminate enum values
> > perf vendor events intel: Refresh alderlake events
> > perf vendor events intel: Refresh alderlake-n metrics
> > perf vendor events intel: Refresh broadwell metrics
> > perf vendor events intel: Refresh broadwellde metrics
> > perf vendor events intel: Refresh broadwellx metrics
> > perf vendor events intel: Refresh cascadelakex events
> > perf vendor events intel: Add graniterapids events
> > perf vendor events intel: Refresh haswell metrics
> > perf vendor events intel: Refresh haswellx metrics
> > perf vendor events intel: Refresh icelake events
> > perf vendor events intel: Refresh icelakex metrics
> > perf vendor events intel: Refresh ivybridge metrics
> > perf vendor events intel: Refresh ivytown metrics
> > perf vendor events intel: Refresh jaketown events
> > perf vendor events intel: Refresh knightslanding events
> > perf vendor events intel: Refresh sandybridge events
> > perf vendor events intel: Refresh sapphirerapids events
> > perf vendor events intel: Refresh silvermont events
> > perf vendor events intel: Refresh skylake events
> > perf vendor events intel: Refresh skylakex metrics
> > perf vendor events intel: Refresh tigerlake events
> > perf vendor events intel: Refresh westmereep-dp events
> > perf jevents: Add rand support to metrics
> > perf jevent: Parse metric thresholds
> > perf pmu-events: Test parsing metric thresholds with the fake PMU
> > perf list: Support for printing metric thresholds
> > perf metric: Compute and print threshold values
> > perf expr: More explicit NAN handling
> > perf metric: Add --metric-no-threshold option
> > perf stat: Add TopdownL1 metric as a default if present
> > perf stat: Implement --topdown using json metrics
> > perf stat: Remove topdown event special handling
> > perf doc: Refresh topdown documentation
> > perf stat: Remove hard coded transaction events
> > perf stat: Use metrics for --smi-cost
> > perf stat: Remove perf_stat_evsel_id
> > perf stat: Move enums from header
> > perf stat: Hide runtime_stat
> > perf stat: Add cpu_aggr_map for loop
> > perf metric: Directly use counts rather than saved_value
> > perf stat: Use counts rather than saved_value
> > perf stat: Remove saved_value/runtime_stat
> >
> > tools/perf/Documentation/perf-stat.txt | 27 +-
> > tools/perf/Documentation/topdown.txt | 70 +-
> > tools/perf/arch/powerpc/util/header.c | 2 +-
> > tools/perf/arch/x86/util/evlist.c | 6 +-
> > tools/perf/arch/x86/util/topdown.c | 78 +-
> > tools/perf/arch/x86/util/topdown.h | 1 -
> > tools/perf/builtin-list.c | 13 +-
> > tools/perf/builtin-script.c | 9 +-
> > tools/perf/builtin-stat.c | 233 +-
> > .../arch/x86/alderlake/adl-metrics.json | 3190 ++++++++++-------
> > .../pmu-events/arch/x86/alderlake/cache.json | 36 +-
> > .../arch/x86/alderlake/floating-point.json | 27 +
> > .../arch/x86/alderlake/frontend.json | 9 +
> > .../pmu-events/arch/x86/alderlake/memory.json | 3 +-
> > .../arch/x86/alderlake/pipeline.json | 14 +-
> > .../arch/x86/alderlake/uncore-other.json | 28 +-
> > .../arch/x86/alderlaken/adln-metrics.json | 811 +++--
> > .../arch/x86/broadwell/bdw-metrics.json | 1439 ++++----
> > .../arch/x86/broadwellde/bdwde-metrics.json | 1405 ++++----
> > .../arch/x86/broadwellx/bdx-metrics.json | 1626 +++++----
> > .../arch/x86/broadwellx/uncore-cache.json | 74 +-
> > .../x86/broadwellx/uncore-interconnect.json | 64 +-
> > .../arch/x86/broadwellx/uncore-other.json | 4 +-
> > .../arch/x86/cascadelakex/cache.json | 24 +-
> > .../arch/x86/cascadelakex/clx-metrics.json | 2198 ++++++------
> > .../arch/x86/cascadelakex/frontend.json | 8 +-
> > .../arch/x86/cascadelakex/pipeline.json | 16 +
> > .../arch/x86/cascadelakex/uncore-memory.json | 18 +-
> > .../arch/x86/cascadelakex/uncore-other.json | 120 +-
> > .../arch/x86/cascadelakex/uncore-power.json | 8 +-
> > .../arch/x86/graniterapids/cache.json | 54 +
> > .../arch/x86/graniterapids/frontend.json | 10 +
> > .../arch/x86/graniterapids/memory.json | 174 +
> > .../arch/x86/graniterapids/other.json | 29 +
> > .../arch/x86/graniterapids/pipeline.json | 102 +
> > .../x86/graniterapids/virtual-memory.json | 26 +
> > .../arch/x86/haswell/hsw-metrics.json | 1220 ++++---
> > .../arch/x86/haswellx/hsx-metrics.json | 1397 ++++----
> > .../pmu-events/arch/x86/icelake/cache.json | 16 +
> > .../arch/x86/icelake/floating-point.json | 31 +
> > .../arch/x86/icelake/icl-metrics.json | 1932 +++++-----
> > .../pmu-events/arch/x86/icelake/pipeline.json | 23 +-
> > .../arch/x86/icelake/uncore-other.json | 56 +
> > .../arch/x86/icelakex/icx-metrics.json | 2153 +++++------
> > .../arch/x86/icelakex/uncore-memory.json | 2 +-
> > .../arch/x86/icelakex/uncore-other.json | 4 +-
> > .../arch/x86/ivybridge/ivb-metrics.json | 1270 ++++---
> > .../arch/x86/ivytown/ivt-metrics.json | 1311 ++++---
> > .../pmu-events/arch/x86/jaketown/cache.json | 6 +-
> > .../arch/x86/jaketown/floating-point.json | 2 +-
> > .../arch/x86/jaketown/frontend.json | 12 +-
> > .../arch/x86/jaketown/jkt-metrics.json | 602 ++--
> > .../arch/x86/jaketown/pipeline.json | 2 +-
> > .../arch/x86/jaketown/uncore-cache.json | 22 +-
> > .../x86/jaketown/uncore-interconnect.json | 74 +-
> > .../arch/x86/jaketown/uncore-memory.json | 4 +-
> > .../arch/x86/jaketown/uncore-other.json | 22 +-
> > .../arch/x86/jaketown/uncore-power.json | 8 +-
> > .../arch/x86/knightslanding/cache.json | 94 +-
> > .../arch/x86/knightslanding/pipeline.json | 8 +-
> > .../arch/x86/knightslanding/uncore-other.json | 8 +-
> > tools/perf/pmu-events/arch/x86/mapfile.csv | 29 +-
> > .../arch/x86/sandybridge/cache.json | 8 +-
> > .../arch/x86/sandybridge/floating-point.json | 2 +-
> > .../arch/x86/sandybridge/frontend.json | 12 +-
> > .../arch/x86/sandybridge/pipeline.json | 2 +-
> > .../arch/x86/sandybridge/snb-metrics.json | 601 ++--
> > .../arch/x86/sapphirerapids/cache.json | 24 +-
> > .../x86/sapphirerapids/floating-point.json | 32 +
> > .../arch/x86/sapphirerapids/frontend.json | 8 +
> > .../arch/x86/sapphirerapids/pipeline.json | 19 +-
> > .../arch/x86/sapphirerapids/spr-metrics.json | 2283 ++++++------
> > .../arch/x86/sapphirerapids/uncore-other.json | 60 +
> > .../arch/x86/silvermont/frontend.json | 2 +-
> > .../arch/x86/silvermont/pipeline.json | 2 +-
> > .../pmu-events/arch/x86/skylake/cache.json | 25 +-
> > .../pmu-events/arch/x86/skylake/frontend.json | 8 +-
> > .../pmu-events/arch/x86/skylake/other.json | 1 +
> > .../pmu-events/arch/x86/skylake/pipeline.json | 16 +
> > .../arch/x86/skylake/skl-metrics.json | 1877 ++++++----
> > .../arch/x86/skylake/uncore-other.json | 1 +
> > .../pmu-events/arch/x86/skylakex/cache.json | 8 +-
> > .../arch/x86/skylakex/frontend.json | 8 +-
> > .../arch/x86/skylakex/pipeline.json | 16 +
> > .../arch/x86/skylakex/skx-metrics.json | 2097 +++++------
> > .../arch/x86/skylakex/uncore-memory.json | 2 +-
> > .../arch/x86/skylakex/uncore-other.json | 96 +-
> > .../arch/x86/skylakex/uncore-power.json | 6 +-
> > .../arch/x86/tigerlake/floating-point.json | 31 +
> > .../arch/x86/tigerlake/pipeline.json | 18 +
> > .../arch/x86/tigerlake/tgl-metrics.json | 1942 +++++-----
> > .../arch/x86/tigerlake/uncore-other.json | 28 +-
> > .../arch/x86/westmereep-dp/cache.json | 2 +-
> > .../x86/westmereep-dp/virtual-memory.json | 2 +-
> > tools/perf/pmu-events/jevents.py | 58 +-
> > tools/perf/pmu-events/metric.py | 8 +-
> > tools/perf/pmu-events/pmu-events.h | 35 +-
> > tools/perf/tests/expand-cgroup.c | 3 +-
> > tools/perf/tests/expr.c | 7 +-
> > tools/perf/tests/parse-metric.c | 21 +-
> > tools/perf/tests/pmu-events.c | 49 +-
> > tools/perf/util/cpumap.h | 3 +
> > tools/perf/util/cputopo.c | 14 +
> > tools/perf/util/cputopo.h | 5 +
> > tools/perf/util/evsel.h | 2 +-
> > tools/perf/util/expr.c | 16 +-
> > tools/perf/util/expr.y | 12 +-
> > tools/perf/util/metricgroup.c | 178 +-
> > tools/perf/util/metricgroup.h | 5 +-
> > tools/perf/util/pmu.c | 17 +-
> > tools/perf/util/print-events.h | 1 +
> > tools/perf/util/smt.c | 11 +-
> > tools/perf/util/smt.h | 12 +-
> > tools/perf/util/stat-display.c | 117 +-
> > tools/perf/util/stat-shadow.c | 1287 ++-----
> > tools/perf/util/stat.c | 74 -
> > tools/perf/util/stat.h | 96 +-
> > tools/perf/util/synthetic-events.c | 2 +-
> > tools/perf/util/topdown.c | 68 +-
> > tools/perf/util/topdown.h | 11 +-
> > 120 files changed, 18025 insertions(+), 15590 deletions(-)
> > create mode 100644 tools/perf/pmu-events/arch/x86/graniterapids/cache.json
> > create mode 100644 tools/perf/pmu-events/arch/x86/graniterapids/frontend.json
> > create mode 100644 tools/perf/pmu-events/arch/x86/graniterapids/memory.json
> > create mode 100644 tools/perf/pmu-events/arch/x86/graniterapids/other.json
> > create mode 100644 tools/perf/pmu-events/arch/x86/graniterapids/pipeline.json
> > create mode 100644 tools/perf/pmu-events/arch/x86/graniterapids/virtual-memory.json
> >
> > --
> > 2.39.2.637.g21b0678d19-goog
> >
>
> --
>
> - Arnaldo