Re: [PATCH 2/9] perf tools: Support the auxiliary event

[Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>]

Em Tue, Feb 02, 2021 at 12:09:06PM -0800, kan.liang@linux.intel.com escreveu:
> From: Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com>
> diff --git a/tools/perf/util/evsel.c b/tools/perf/util/evsel.c
> index c26ea822..c48f6de 100644
> --- a/tools/perf/util/evsel.c
> +++ b/tools/perf/util/evsel.c
> @@ -2689,6 +2689,9 @@ int evsel__open_strerror(struct evsel *evsel, struct target *target,
>  		if (perf_missing_features.aux_output)
>  			return scnprintf(msg, size, "The 'aux_output' feature is not supported, update the kernel.");
>  		break;
> +	case ENODATA:
> +		return scnprintf(msg, size, "Cannot collect data source with the load latency event alone. "
> +				 "Please add an auxiliary event in front of the load latency event.");

Are you sure this is the only case where ENODATA comes out from
perf_event_open()? Well, according to your comment in:

  61b985e3e775a3a7 ("perf/x86/intel: Add perf core PMU support for Sapphire Rapids")

It should be at that point in time, so its safe to merge as-is, but then
I think this is fragile, what if someone else, in the future, not
knowing that ENODATA is supposed to be used only with that ancient CPU,
Sapphire Rapids, uses it? :-)

Please consider adding a check before assuming ENODATA is for this
specific case.

Back to processing the other patches.

- Arnaldo

>  	default:
>  		break;
>  	}
> diff --git a/tools/perf/util/mem-events.c b/tools/perf/util/mem-events.c
> index 19007e4..3edfb88 100644
> --- a/tools/perf/util/mem-events.c
> +++ b/tools/perf/util/mem-events.c
> @@ -56,6 +56,11 @@ char * __weak perf_mem_events__name(int i)
>  	return (char *)e->name;
>  }
>  
> +__weak bool is_mem_loads_aux_event(struct evsel *leader __maybe_unused)
> +{
> +	return false;
> +}
> +
>  int perf_mem_events__parse(const char *str)
>  {
>  	char *tok, *saveptr = NULL;
> diff --git a/tools/perf/util/mem-events.h b/tools/perf/util/mem-events.h
> index 5ef1782..045a507 100644
> --- a/tools/perf/util/mem-events.h
> +++ b/tools/perf/util/mem-events.h
> @@ -9,6 +9,7 @@
>  #include <linux/refcount.h>
>  #include <linux/perf_event.h>
>  #include "stat.h"
> +#include "evsel.h"
>  
>  struct perf_mem_event {
>  	bool		record;
> @@ -39,6 +40,7 @@ int perf_mem_events__init(void);
>  
>  char *perf_mem_events__name(int i);
>  struct perf_mem_event *perf_mem_events__ptr(int i);
> +bool is_mem_loads_aux_event(struct evsel *leader);
>  
>  void perf_mem_events__list(void);
>  
> diff --git a/tools/perf/util/parse-events.l b/tools/perf/util/parse-events.l
> index 9db5097..0b36285 100644
> --- a/tools/perf/util/parse-events.l
> +++ b/tools/perf/util/parse-events.l
> @@ -356,6 +356,7 @@ bpf-output					{ return sym(yyscanner, PERF_TYPE_SOFTWARE, PERF_COUNT_SW_BPF_OUT
>  cycles-ct				|
>  cycles-t				|
>  mem-loads				|
> +mem-loads-aux				|
>  mem-stores				|
>  topdown-[a-z-]+				|
>  tx-capacity-[a-z-]+			|
> diff --git a/tools/perf/util/record.c b/tools/perf/util/record.c
> index e70c9dd..d0735fb 100644
> --- a/tools/perf/util/record.c
> +++ b/tools/perf/util/record.c
> @@ -15,6 +15,8 @@
>  #include "record.h"
>  #include "../perf-sys.h"
>  #include "topdown.h"
> +#include "map_symbol.h"
> +#include "mem-events.h"
>  
>  /*
>   * evsel__config_leader_sampling() uses special rules for leader sampling.
> @@ -25,7 +27,8 @@ static struct evsel *evsel__read_sampler(struct evsel *evsel, struct evlist *evl
>  {
>  	struct evsel *leader = evsel->leader;
>  
> -	if (evsel__is_aux_event(leader) || arch_topdown_sample_read(leader)) {
> +	if (evsel__is_aux_event(leader) || arch_topdown_sample_read(leader) ||
> +	    is_mem_loads_aux_event(leader)) {
>  		evlist__for_each_entry(evlist, evsel) {
>  			if (evsel->leader == leader && evsel != evsel->leader)
>  				return evsel;
> -- 
> 2.7.4
> 

-- 

- Arnaldo