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authorKan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com>2018-04-24 11:20:11 -0700
committerArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>2018-04-24 16:11:59 -0300
commit30060eaed769039c6e523b9d159f2b2858fa8907 (patch)
tree64780c69fc67ee2e7f147b3e07063e49a6522744 /tools/perf
parent292c34c10249c64a70def442f0d977bf9d466ed7 (diff)
perf stat: Print out hint for mixed PMU group error
Perf doesn't support mixed events from different PMUs (except software event) in a group. For this case, only "<not counted>" or "<not supported>" are printed out. There is no hint which guides users to fix the issue. Checking the PMU type of events to determine if they are from the same PMU. There may be false alarm for the checking. E.g. the core PMU has different PMU type. But it should not happen often. The false alarm can also be tolerated, because: - It only happens on error path. - It just provides a possible solution for the issue. Signed-off-by: Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com> Cc: Agustin Vega-Frias <agustinv@codeaurora.org> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Cc: Ganapatrao Kulkarni <ganapatrao.kulkarni@cavium.com> Cc: Jin Yao <yao.jin@linux.intel.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Shaokun Zhang <zhangshaokun@hisilicon.com> Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1524594014-79243-2-git-send-email-kan.liang@linux.intel.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'tools/perf')
-rw-r--r--tools/perf/builtin-stat.c35
1 files changed, 34 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-stat.c b/tools/perf/builtin-stat.c
index 147a27e8c937..30e6b374e095 100644
--- a/tools/perf/builtin-stat.c
+++ b/tools/perf/builtin-stat.c
@@ -172,6 +172,7 @@ static bool interval_count;
static const char *output_name;
static int output_fd;
static int print_free_counters_hint;
+static int print_mixed_hw_group_error;
struct perf_stat {
bool record;
@@ -1126,6 +1127,30 @@ static void abs_printout(int id, int nr, struct perf_evsel *evsel, double avg)
fprintf(output, "%s%s", csv_sep, evsel->cgrp->name);
}
+static bool is_mixed_hw_group(struct perf_evsel *counter)
+{
+ struct perf_evlist *evlist = counter->evlist;
+ u32 pmu_type = counter->attr.type;
+ struct perf_evsel *pos;
+
+ if (counter->nr_members < 2)
+ return false;
+
+ evlist__for_each_entry(evlist, pos) {
+ /* software events can be part of any hardware group */
+ if (pos->attr.type == PERF_TYPE_SOFTWARE)
+ continue;
+ if (pmu_type == PERF_TYPE_SOFTWARE) {
+ pmu_type = pos->attr.type;
+ continue;
+ }
+ if (pmu_type != pos->attr.type)
+ return true;
+ }
+
+ return false;
+}
+
static void printout(int id, int nr, struct perf_evsel *counter, double uval,
char *prefix, u64 run, u64 ena, double noise,
struct runtime_stat *st)
@@ -1178,8 +1203,11 @@ static void printout(int id, int nr, struct perf_evsel *counter, double uval,
counter->supported ? CNTR_NOT_COUNTED : CNTR_NOT_SUPPORTED,
csv_sep);
- if (counter->supported)
+ if (counter->supported) {
print_free_counters_hint = 1;
+ if (is_mixed_hw_group(counter))
+ print_mixed_hw_group_error = 1;
+ }
fprintf(stat_config.output, "%-*s%s",
csv_output ? 0 : unit_width,
@@ -1757,6 +1785,11 @@ static void print_footer(void)
" echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/nmi_watchdog\n"
" perf stat ...\n"
" echo 1 > /proc/sys/kernel/nmi_watchdog\n");
+
+ if (print_mixed_hw_group_error)
+ fprintf(output,
+ "The events in group usually have to be from "
+ "the same PMU. Try reorganizing the group.\n");
}
static void print_counters(struct timespec *ts, int argc, const char **argv)