Re: [PATCH v2 02/10] perf stat: Don't remove all grouped events when CPU maps disagree

["Liang, Kan" <kan.liang@linux.intel.com>]

On 2023-03-02 4:25 p.m., Ian Rogers wrote:
> If the events in an evlist's CPU map differ then the entire group is
> removed. For example:
> 
> ```
> $ perf stat -e '{imc_free_running/data_read/,imc_free_running/data_write/,cs}' -a sleep 1
> WARNING: grouped events cpus do not match, disabling group:
>   anon group { imc_free_running/data_read/, imc_free_running/data_write/, cs }
> ```
> 
> Change the behavior so that just the events not matching the leader
> are removed. So in the example above, just 'cs' will be removed.
> 
> Modify the warning so that it is produced once for each group, rather
> than once for the entire evlist. Shrink the scope and size of the
> warning text buffer.

For the uncore, we usually have to create a group for each uncore PMU.
The number of groups may be big. For example, on ICX, we have 40 CHA
PMUs. For SPR, there should be more CHAs. If we have something like
{cycles,uncore_cha/event=0x1/}, is the warning shown 40 times on ICX?
If so, it should be very annoying.

Maybe it's better to keep the current behavior which only print a
warning once and notify the users that perf will re-group the events.
For the details, they can get it from the -v option.

Thanks,
Kan
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
> ---
>  tools/perf/builtin-stat.c | 24 +++++++++++++++---------
>  1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-stat.c b/tools/perf/builtin-stat.c
> index d70b1ec88594..5c12ae5efce5 100644
> --- a/tools/perf/builtin-stat.c
> +++ b/tools/perf/builtin-stat.c
> @@ -181,14 +181,13 @@ static bool cpus_map_matched(struct evsel *a, struct evsel *b)
>  
>  static void evlist__check_cpu_maps(struct evlist *evlist)
>  {
> -	struct evsel *evsel, *pos, *leader;
> -	char buf[1024];
> +	struct evsel *evsel, *warned_leader = NULL;
>  
>  	if (evlist__has_hybrid(evlist))
>  		evlist__warn_hybrid_group(evlist);
>  
>  	evlist__for_each_entry(evlist, evsel) {
> -		leader = evsel__leader(evsel);
> +		struct evsel *leader = evsel__leader(evsel);
>  
>  		/* Check that leader matches cpus with each member. */
>  		if (leader == evsel)
> @@ -197,19 +196,26 @@ static void evlist__check_cpu_maps(struct evlist *evlist)
>  			continue;
>  
>  		/* If there's mismatch disable the group and warn user. */
> -		WARN_ONCE(1, "WARNING: grouped events cpus do not match, disabling group:\n");
> -		evsel__group_desc(leader, buf, sizeof(buf));
> -		pr_warning("  %s\n", buf);
> -
> +		if (warned_leader != leader) {
> +			char buf[200];
> +
> +			pr_warning("WARNING: grouped events cpus do not match.\n"
> +				"Events with CPUs not matching the leader will "
> +				"be removed from the group.\n");
> +			evsel__group_desc(leader, buf, sizeof(buf));
> +			pr_warning("  %s\n", buf);
> +			warned_leader = leader;
> +		}
>  		if (verbose > 0) {
> +			char buf[200];
> +
>  			cpu_map__snprint(leader->core.cpus, buf, sizeof(buf));
>  			pr_warning("     %s: %s\n", leader->name, buf);
>  			cpu_map__snprint(evsel->core.cpus, buf, sizeof(buf));
>  			pr_warning("     %s: %s\n", evsel->name, buf);
>  		}
>  
> -		for_each_group_evsel(pos, leader)
> -			evsel__remove_from_group(pos, leader);
> +		evsel__remove_from_group(evsel, leader);
>  	}
>  }
>