Re: [PATCH] tools/perf/metricgroup: Fix printing event names of metric group with multiple events incase of overlapping events

[Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>]

On Wed, Jan 08, 2020 at 02:41:35PM +0530, kajoljain wrote:

SNIP

> > > -    int i = 0;
> > > +    int i = 0, j = 0;
> > >       bool leader_found;
> > >         evlist__for_each_entry (perf_evlist, ev) {
> > > +        j++;
> > > +        if (j <= iterator_perf_evlist)
> > > +            continue;
> > >           if (!strcmp(ev->name, ids[i])) {
> > >               if (!metric_events[i])
> > >                   metric_events[i] = ev;
> > > @@ -146,6 +151,7 @@ static struct evsel *find_evsel_group(struct
> > > evlist *perf_evlist,
> > >               }
> > >           }
> > >       }
> > > +    iterator_perf_evlist = j;
> > >         return metric_events[0];
> > >   }
> > > 
> > 
> > Thanks for reporting and fixing this issue.
> > 
> > I just have one question, do we really need a *static variable* to track
> > the matched events? Perhaps using an input parameter?
> 
> Hi Jin,
> 
> The other way I come up with to solve this issue is, making change in
> perf_evlist itself by adding some flag in event name, to keep track of
> matched events.
> 
> As if we change event name itself, next time when we compare it won't
> matched. But in that case we need to remove those flag later. Which will
> increase the
> 
> complexity. If you have any suggestions, please let me know.

we already keep evsel::cpu_iter for similar concept

so I guess we could have some iterator_perf_evlist variable in evlist..
that is if we don't find other solution (other than static varable)

thanks,
jirka