Em Fri, May 04, 2018 at 01:57:33PM -0400, Liang, Kan escreveu:
> 
> 
> On 5/1/2018 12:33 PM, Jiri Olsa wrote:
> > On Tue, May 01, 2018 at 07:31:36AM -0700, [email protected] wrote:
> > > From: Kan Liang <[email protected]>
> > > 
> > > Perf stat doesn't count the uncore event aliases from the same uncore
> > > block in a group, for example:
> > > 
> > >    perf stat -e '{unc_m_cas_count.all,unc_m_clockticks}' -a -I 1000
> > >    #           time             counts unit events
> > >         1.000447342      <not counted>      unc_m_cas_count.all
> > >         1.000447342      <not counted>      unc_m_clockticks
> > >         2.000740654      <not counted>      unc_m_cas_count.all
> > >         2.000740654      <not counted>      unc_m_clockticks
> > > 
> > > The output is very misleading. It gives a wrong impression that the
> > > uncore event doesn't work.
> > > 
> > > An uncore block could be composed by several PMUs. An uncore event alias
> > > is a joint name which means the same event runs on all PMUs of a block.
> > > Perf doesn't support mixed events from different PMUs in the same group.
> > > It is wrong to put uncore event aliases in a big group.
> > > 
> > > The right way is to split the big group into multiple small groups which
> > > only include the events from the same PMU.
> > > Only uncore event aliases from the same uncore block should be specially
> > > handled here. It doesn't make sense to mix the uncore events with other
> > > uncore events from different blocks or even core events in a group.
> > > 
> > > With the patch:
> > >    #           time             counts unit events
> > >       1.001557653            140,833      unc_m_cas_count.all
> > >       1.001557653      1,330,231,332      unc_m_clockticks
> > >       2.002709483             85,007      unc_m_cas_count.all
> > >       2.002709483      1,429,494,563      unc_m_clockticks
> > > 
> > > Reported-by: Andi Kleen <[email protected]>
> > > Signed-off-by: Kan Liang <[email protected]>
> > > ---
> > > 
> > > Changes since V4:
> > > - Add WARN_ON when failing to alloc an array for leaders
> > > - Add comments to explain why it has to go through the whole group
> > 
> > Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <[email protected]>
> > 
> 
> Thanks Jirka.
> 
> Hi Arnaldo,
> 
> Are you OK with the patch?
> It looks like Jirka has another patch which will touch the same code.
> If it's OK for you, could you please merge the patch? So he can do the
> changes on top of this patch.

Yeah, I'm applying to my perf/core branch and pushing it out now.

- Arnaldo

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