[REGRESSION] 'perf mem record' on a Intel hybrid system broken

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

Hi Namhyung,

root@number:/tmp# perf mem record -a sleep 1s
Error:
The sys_perf_event_open() syscall returned with 22 (Invalid argument) for event (cpu_core/mem-loads,ldlat=30/).
"dmesg | grep -i perf" may provide additional information.

root@number:/tmp# dmesg | tail
[18865.729882] ixgbe 0000:05:00.0 enp5s0: NIC Link is Up 10 Gbps, Flow Control: RX/TX
[18865.848172] mlx5_core 0000:01:00.0 enp1s0f0np0: Link down
[18866.057990] mlx5_core 0000:01:00.1 enp1s0f1np1: Link down
[19066.396215] input: JBL RACE TWS (AVRCP) as /devices/virtual/input/input27
[19078.378477] usb 2-3: current rate 16000 is different from the runtime rate 48000
[21158.375680] usb 2-3: current rate 16000 is different from the runtime rate 48000
[31386.186675] input: JBL RACE TWS (AVRCP) as /devices/virtual/input/input28
[31409.098352] usb 2-3: current rate 16000 is different from the runtime rate 48000
[36409.737615] sysrq: Emergency Sync
[36409.742619] Emergency Sync complete
root@number:/tmp#

	That I bisected down to:

⬢ [acme@toolbox perf-tools-next]$ git bisect good 
af954f76eea56453713ae657f6812d4063f9bc57 is the first bad commit
commit af954f76eea56453713ae657f6812d4063f9bc57
Author: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Date:   Tue Oct 15 23:23:57 2024 -0700

    perf tools: Check fallback error and order
    
    The perf_event_open might fail due to various reasons, so blindly
    reducing precise_ip level might not be the best way to deal with it.
    
    It seems the kernel return -EOPNOTSUPP when PMU doesn't support the
    given precise level.  Let's try again with the correct error code.
    
    This caused a problem on AMD, as it stops on precise_ip of 2 for IBS but
    user events with exclude_kernel=1 cannot make progress.  Let's add the
    evsel__handle_error_quirks() to this case specially.  I plan to work on
    the kernel side to improve this situation but it'd still need some
    special handling for IBS.
    
    Reviewed-by: James Clark <james.clark@linaro.org>
    Reviewed-by: Ravi Bangoria <ravi.bangoria@amd.com>
    Acked-by: Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com>
    Cc: James Clark <james.clark@arm.com>
    Cc: Atish Patra <atishp@atishpatra.org>
    Cc: Mingwei Zhang <mizhang@google.com>
    Cc: Kajol Jain <kjain@linux.ibm.com>
    Cc: Thomas Richter <tmricht@linux.ibm.com>
    Cc: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@rivosinc.com>
    Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241016062359.264929-8-namhyung@kernel.org
    Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>

If I revert that patch:

⬢ [acme@toolbox perf-tools-next]$ git log --oneline -5
9a9f2d6da1ea5ef5 (HEAD -> perf-tools-next) Revert "perf tools: Check fallback error and order"
d12d4cfc5033cd8c perf script python: Improve physical mem type resolution
3f79d822e331022f perf disasm: Return a proper error when not determining the file type
1a5b914261f0ebee tools features: Don't check for libunwind devel files by default
40384c840ea1944d (tag: v6.13-rc1, perf-tools/perf-tools) Linux 6.13-rc1
⬢ [acme@toolbox perf-tools-next]$

And rebuild, it works again:

root@number:/tmp# perf mem record -a sleep 1s
[ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ]
[ perf record: Captured and wrote 13.014 MB perf.data (10316 samples) ]
root@number:/tmp# perf evlist
cpu_atom/mem-loads,ldlat=30/P
cpu_atom/mem-stores/P
cpu_core/mem-loads-aux/
cpu_core/mem-loads,ldlat=30/
cpu_core/mem-stores/P
dummy:u
# Tip: use 'perf evlist -g' to show group information
root@number:/tmp# perf evlist -v
cpu_atom/mem-loads,ldlat=30/P: type: 10 (cpu_atom), size: 136, config: 0x5d0 (mem-loads), { sample_period, sample_freq }: 4000, sample_type: IP|TID|TIME|ADDR|CPU|PERIOD|IDENTIFIER|DATA_SRC|WEIGHT_STRUCT, read_format: ID|LOST, disabled: 1, freq: 1, precise_ip: 3, sample_id_all: 1, { bp_addr, config1 }: 0x1f
cpu_atom/mem-stores/P: type: 10 (cpu_atom), size: 136, config: 0x6d0 (mem-stores), { sample_period, sample_freq }: 4000, sample_type: IP|TID|TIME|ADDR|CPU|PERIOD|IDENTIFIER|DATA_SRC|WEIGHT_STRUCT, read_format: ID|LOST, disabled: 1, freq: 1, precise_ip: 3, sample_id_all: 1
cpu_core/mem-loads-aux/: type: 4 (cpu_core), size: 136, config: 0x8203 (mem-loads-aux), { sample_period, sample_freq }: 4000, sample_type: IP|TID|TIME|ADDR|CPU|PERIOD|IDENTIFIER|DATA_SRC|WEIGHT_STRUCT, read_format: ID|LOST, disabled: 1, freq: 1, precise_ip: 3, sample_id_all: 1
cpu_core/mem-loads,ldlat=30/: type: 4 (cpu_core), size: 136, config: 0x1cd (mem-loads), { sample_period, sample_freq }: 4000, sample_type: IP|TID|TIME|ADDR|CPU|PERIOD|IDENTIFIER|DATA_SRC|WEIGHT_STRUCT, read_format: ID|LOST, freq: 1, precise_ip: 2, sample_id_all: 1, { bp_addr, config1 }: 0x1f
cpu_core/mem-stores/P: type: 4 (cpu_core), size: 136, config: 0x2cd (mem-stores), { sample_period, sample_freq }: 4000, sample_type: IP|TID|TIME|ADDR|CPU|PERIOD|IDENTIFIER|DATA_SRC|WEIGHT_STRUCT, read_format: ID|LOST, disabled: 1, freq: 1, precise_ip: 3, sample_id_all: 1
dummy:u: type: 1 (software), size: 136, config: 0x9 (PERF_COUNT_SW_DUMMY), { sample_period, sample_freq }: 1, sample_type: IP|TID|TIME|ADDR|CPU|IDENTIFIER|DATA_SRC|WEIGHT_STRUCT, read_format: ID|LOST, exclude_kernel: 1, exclude_hv: 1, mmap: 1, comm: 1, task: 1, mmap_data: 1, sample_id_all: 1, exclude_guest: 1, mmap2: 1, comm_exec: 1, ksymbol: 1, bpf_event: 1
# Tip: use 'perf evlist -g' to show group information
root@number:/tmp# perf evlist -g
cpu_atom/mem-loads,ldlat=30/P
cpu_atom/mem-stores/P
{cpu_core/mem-loads-aux/,cpu_core/mem-loads,ldlat=30/}
cpu_core/mem-stores/P
dummy:u
root@number:/tmp#

Now trying to investigate this,

- Arnaldo