Re: [PATCH v8 00/52] AMD, ARM, Intel metric generation with Python

[Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>]

Hello Sandipan and Ravi,

On Wed, Nov 12, 2025 at 07:19:48PM -0800, Ian Rogers wrote:
> Metrics in the perf tool come in via json. Json doesn't allow
> comments, line breaks, etc. making it an inconvenient way to write
> metrics. Further, it is useful to detect when writing a metric that
> the event specified is supported within the event json for a
> model. From the metric python code Event(s) are used, with fallback
> events provided, if no event is found then an exception is thrown and
> that can either indicate a failure or an unsupported model. To avoid
> confusion all the metrics and their metricgroups are prefixed with
> 'lpm_', where LPM is an abbreviation of Linux Perf Metric. While extra
> characters aren't ideal, this separates the metrics from other vendor
> provided metrics.
> 
> * The first 14 patches introduce infrastructure and fixes for the
>   addition of metrics written in python for Arm64, AMD Zen and Intel
>   CPUs. The ilist.py and perf python module are fixed to work better
>   with metrics on hybrid architectures.
> 
> * The next 13 patches generate additional metrics for AMD zen.  Rapl
>   and Idle metrics aren't specific to AMD but are placed here for ease
>   and convenience. Uncore L3 metrics are added along with the majority
>   of core metrics.

Any opinion on these new metrics?  I'd like to have them unless you have
objections.  Please let me know if there are concerns.

Thanks,
Namhyung

> 
> * The next 20 patches add additional metrics for Intel. Rapl and Idle
>   metrics aren't specific to Intel but are placed here for ease and
>   convenience. Smi and tsx metrics are added so they can be dropped
>   from the per model json files. There are four uncore sets of metrics
>   and eleven core metrics. Add a CheckPmu function to metric to
>   simplify detecting the presence of hybrid PMUs in events. Metrics
>   with experimental events are flagged as experimental in their
>   description.
> 
> * The next 2 patches add additional metrics for Arm64, where the
>   topdown set decomposes yet further. The metrcs primarily use json
>   events, where the json contains architecture standard events. Not
>   all events are in the json, such as for a53 where the events are in
>   sysfs. Workaround this by adding the sysfs events to the metrics but
>   longer-term such events should be added to the json.
> 
> * The final patch validates that all events provided to an Event
>   object exist in a json file somewhere. This is to avoid mistakes
>   like unfortunate typos.
> 
> This series has benefitted from the input of Leo Yan
>  <leo.yan@arm.com>, Sandipan Das <sandidas@amd.com>, Thomas Falcon
>  <thomas.falcon@intel.com> and Perry Taylor <perry.taylor@intel.com>.
> 
> v8. Combine the previous 4 series for clarity. Rebase on top of the
>     more recent legacy metric and event changes. Make the python more
>     pep8 and pylint compliant.
> 
> Foundations:
> v6. Fix issue with '\-' escape not being '\\-' (reported-by Sandipan
>     Das <sandidas@amd.com>) which didn't alter the generated json.
>     https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20250904043208.995243-1-irogers@google.com/
> 
> v5. Rebase on top of legacy hardware/cache changes that now generate
>     events using python:
>     https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20250828205930.4007284-1-irogers@google.com/
>     the v5 series is:
>     https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20250829030727.4159703-1-irogers@google.com/
> 
> v4. Rebase and small Build/Makefile tweak
>     https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20240926173554.404411-1-irogers@google.com/
> 
> v3. Some code tidying, make the input directory a command line
>     argument, but no other functional or output changes.
>     https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20240314055051.1960527-1-irogers@google.com/
> 
> v2. Fixes two type issues in the python code but no functional or
>     output changes.
>     https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20240302005950.2847058-1-irogers@google.com/
> 
> v1. https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20240302005950.2847058-1-irogers@google.com/
> 
> AMD:
> v6. Fix issue with '\-' escape not being '\\-' (reported-by Sandipan
>     Das <sandidas@amd.com>) which didn't alter the generated json.
>     https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20250904044047.999031-1-irogers@google.com/
> 
> v5. Rebase. Add uop cache hit/miss rates patch. Prefix all metric
>     names with lpm_ (short for Linux Perf Metric) so that python
>     generated metrics are clearly namespaced.
>     https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20250829033138.4166591-1-irogers@google.com/
> 
> v4. Rebase.
>     https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20240926174101.406874-1-irogers@google.com/
> 
> v3. Some minor code cleanup changes.
>     https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20240314055839.1975063-1-irogers@google.com/
> 
> v2. Drop the cycles breakdown in favor of having it as a common
>     metric, suggested by Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com>.
>     https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20240301184737.2660108-1-irogers@google.com/
> 
> v1. https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20240229001537.4158049-1-irogers@google.com/
> 
> Intel:
> v6. Fix issue with '\-' escape not being '\\-' (reported-by Sandipan
>     Das <sandidas@amd.com>) which didn't alter the generated json.
>     https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20250904044653.1002362-1-irogers@google.com/
> 
> v5. Rebase. Fix description for smi metric (Kan). Prefix all metric
>     names with lpm_ (short for Linux Perf Metric) so that python
>     generated metrics are clearly namespaced. Kan requested a
>     namespace in his review:
>     https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/43548903-b7c8-47c4-b1da-0258293ecbd4@linux.intel.com/
>     The v5 series is:
>     https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20250829041104.4186320-1-irogers@google.com/
> 
> v4. Experimental metric descriptions. Add mesh bandwidth metric. Rebase.
>     https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20240926175035.408668-1-irogers@google.com/
> 
> v3. Swap tsx and CheckPMU patches that were in the wrong order. Some
>     minor code cleanup changes. Drop reference to merged fix for
>     umasks/occ_sel in PCU events and for cstate metrics.
>     https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20240314055919.1979781-1-irogers@google.com/
> 
> v2. Drop the cycles breakdown in favor of having it as a common
>     metric, spelling and other improvements suggested by Kan Liang
>     <kan.liang@linux.intel.com>.
>     https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20240301185559.2661241-1-irogers@google.com/
> 
> v1. https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20240229001806.4158429-1-irogers@google.com/
> 
> ARM:
> v7. Switch a use of cycles to cpu-cycles due to ARM having too many
>     cycles events.
>     https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20250904194139.1540230-1-irogers@google.com/
> 
> v6. Fix issue with '\-' escape not being '\\-' (reported-by Sandipan
>     Das <sandidas@amd.com>) which didn't alter the generated json.
>     https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20250904045253.1007052-1-irogers@google.com/
> 
> v5. Rebase. Address review comments from Leo Yan
>     <leo.yan@arm.com>. Prefix all metric names with lpm_ (short for
>     Linux Perf Metric) so that python generated metrics are clearly
>     namespaced. Use cpu-cycles rather than cycles legacy event for
>     cycles metrics to avoid confusion with ARM PMUs. Add patch that
>     checks events to ensure all possible event names are present in at
>     least one json file.
>     https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20250829053235.21994-1-irogers@google.com/
> 
> v4. Tweak to build dependencies and rebase.
>     https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20240926175709.410022-1-irogers@google.com/
> 
> v3. Some minor code cleanup changes.
>     https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20240314055801.1973422-1-irogers@google.com/
> 
> v2. The cycles metrics are now made common and shared with AMD and
>     Intel, suggested by Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com>. This
>     assumes these patches come after the AMD and Intel sets.
>     https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20240301184942.2660478-1-irogers@google.com/
> 
> v1. https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20240229001325.4157655-1-irogers@google.com/
> 
> Ian Rogers (52):
>   perf python: Correct copying of metric_leader in an evsel
>   perf ilist: Be tolerant of reading a metric on the wrong CPU
>   perf jevents: Allow multiple metricgroups.json files
>   perf jevents: Update metric constraint support
>   perf jevents: Add descriptions to metricgroup abstraction
>   perf jevents: Allow metric groups not to be named
>   perf jevents: Support parsing negative exponents
>   perf jevents: Term list fix in event parsing
>   perf jevents: Add threshold expressions to Metric
>   perf jevents: Move json encoding to its own functions
>   perf jevents: Drop duplicate pending metrics
>   perf jevents: Skip optional metrics in metric group list
>   perf jevents: Build support for generating metrics from python
>   perf jevents: Add load event json to verify and allow fallbacks
>   perf jevents: Add RAPL event metric for AMD zen models
>   perf jevents: Add idle metric for AMD zen models
>   perf jevents: Add upc metric for uops per cycle for AMD
>   perf jevents: Add br metric group for branch statistics on AMD
>   perf jevents: Add software prefetch (swpf) metric group for AMD
>   perf jevents: Add hardware prefetch (hwpf) metric group for AMD
>   perf jevents: Add itlb metric group for AMD
>   perf jevents: Add dtlb metric group for AMD
>   perf jevents: Add uncore l3 metric group for AMD
>   perf jevents: Add load store breakdown metrics ldst for AMD
>   perf jevents: Add ILP metrics for AMD
>   perf jevents: Add context switch metrics for AMD
>   perf jevents: Add uop cache hit/miss rates for AMD
>   perf jevents: Add RAPL metrics for all Intel models
>   perf jevents: Add idle metric for Intel models
>   perf jevents: Add CheckPmu to see if a PMU is in loaded json events
>   perf jevents: Add smi metric group for Intel models
>   perf jevents: Mark metrics with experimental events as experimental
>   perf jevents: Add tsx metric group for Intel models
>   perf jevents: Add br metric group for branch statistics on Intel
>   perf jevents: Add software prefetch (swpf) metric group for Intel
>   perf jevents: Add ports metric group giving utilization on Intel
>   perf jevents: Add L2 metrics for Intel
>   perf jevents: Add load store breakdown metrics ldst for Intel
>   perf jevents: Add ILP metrics for Intel
>   perf jevents: Add context switch metrics for Intel
>   perf jevents: Add FPU metrics for Intel
>   perf jevents: Add Miss Level Parallelism (MLP) metric for Intel
>   perf jevents: Add mem_bw metric for Intel
>   perf jevents: Add local/remote "mem" breakdown metrics for Intel
>   perf jevents: Add dir breakdown metrics for Intel
>   perf jevents: Add C-State metrics from the PCU PMU for Intel
>   perf jevents: Add local/remote miss latency metrics for Intel
>   perf jevents: Add upi_bw metric for Intel
>   perf jevents: Add mesh bandwidth saturation metric for Intel
>   perf jevents: Add collection of topdown like metrics for arm64
>   perf jevents: Add cycles breakdown metric for arm64/AMD/Intel
>   perf jevents: Validate that all names given an Event
> 
>  tools/perf/.gitignore                   |    5 +
>  tools/perf/Makefile.perf                |    2 +
>  tools/perf/pmu-events/Build             |   51 +-
>  tools/perf/pmu-events/amd_metrics.py    |  711 ++++++++++++++
>  tools/perf/pmu-events/arm64_metrics.py  |  187 ++++
>  tools/perf/pmu-events/common_metrics.py |   19 +
>  tools/perf/pmu-events/intel_metrics.py  | 1129 +++++++++++++++++++++++
>  tools/perf/pmu-events/jevents.py        |    7 +-
>  tools/perf/pmu-events/metric.py         |  256 ++++-
>  tools/perf/pmu-events/metric_test.py    |    4 +
>  tools/perf/python/ilist.py              |    8 +-
>  tools/perf/util/evsel.c                 |    1 +
>  tools/perf/util/python.c                |   82 +-
>  13 files changed, 2408 insertions(+), 54 deletions(-)
>  create mode 100755 tools/perf/pmu-events/amd_metrics.py
>  create mode 100755 tools/perf/pmu-events/arm64_metrics.py
>  create mode 100644 tools/perf/pmu-events/common_metrics.py
>  create mode 100755 tools/perf/pmu-events/intel_metrics.py
> 
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