Re: [PATCH v1 00/51] shadow metric clean up and improvements
From: Liang, Kan
Date: Mon Feb 27 2023 - 17:05:05 EST
On 2023-02-19 4:27 a.m., Ian Rogers wrote:
> 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.
>
> Ian Rogers (51):
Thanks Ian for the clean up and improvements. The patches 1-38 looks
good to me.
Reviewed-by: Kan Liang<kan.liang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
I like the idea of utilizing the json metrics. But the changes for the
later patches seem change the current user-visible behavior for some cases.
Thanks,
Kan
> 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
>