Re: [PATCH v4 09/10] perf stat: Read tool events last

[Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>]

On Mon, Nov 17, 2025 at 08:38:15PM -0800, Ian Rogers wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 17, 2025 at 6:35 PM Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, Nov 13, 2025 at 10:05:15AM -0800, Ian Rogers wrote:
> > > When reading a metric like memory bandwidth on multiple sockets, the
> > > additional sockets will be on CPUS > 0. Because of the affinity
> > > reading, the counters are read on CPU 0 along with the time, then the
> > > later sockets are read. This can lead to the later sockets having a
> > > bandwidth larger than is possible for the period of time. To avoid
> > > this moving the reading of tool events to occur after all other events
> > > are read.
> >
> > Can you move this change before the affinity updates?  I think it's
> > straight-forward and can be applied independently.
> 
> It is straightforward but will require changes to
> read_counters_with_affinity. I can do a v5 once I know what to do with
> the other patches.

I plan to merge patch 1 to 7 first.  And I think it'd good to have this
one as well.

Thanks,
Namhyung

> >
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
> > > ---
> > >  tools/perf/builtin-stat.c | 29 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
> > >  tools/perf/util/evlist.c  |  4 ----
> > >  2 files changed, 28 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
> > >
> > > diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-stat.c b/tools/perf/builtin-stat.c
> > > index 947f11b8b106..aec93b91fd11 100644
> > > --- a/tools/perf/builtin-stat.c
> > > +++ b/tools/perf/builtin-stat.c
> > > @@ -379,6 +379,9 @@ static int read_counters_with_affinity(void)
> > >               if (evsel__is_bpf(counter))
> > >                       continue;
> > >
> > > +             if (evsel__is_tool(counter))
> > > +                     continue;
> > > +
> > >               if (!counter->err)
> > >                       counter->err = read_counter_cpu(counter, evlist_cpu_itr.cpu_map_idx);
> > >       }
> > > @@ -402,6 +405,24 @@ static int read_bpf_map_counters(void)
> > >       return 0;
> > >  }
> > >
> > > +static int read_tool_counters(void)
> > > +{
> > > +     struct evsel *counter;
> > > +
> > > +     evlist__for_each_entry(evsel_list, counter) {
> > > +             int idx;
> > > +
> > > +             if (!evsel__is_tool(counter))
> > > +                     continue;
> > > +
> > > +             perf_cpu_map__for_each_idx(idx, counter->core.cpus) {
> > > +                     if (!counter->err)
> > > +                             counter->err = read_counter_cpu(counter, idx);
> > > +             }
> > > +     }
> > > +     return 0;
> > > +}
> > > +
> > >  static int read_counters(void)
> > >  {
> > >       int ret;
> > > @@ -415,7 +436,13 @@ static int read_counters(void)
> > >               return ret;
> > >
> > >       // Read non-BPF and non-tool counters next.
> > > -     return read_counters_with_affinity();
> > > +     ret = read_counters_with_affinity();
> > > +     if (ret)
> > > +             return ret;
> > > +
> > > +     // Read the tool counters last. This way the duration_time counter
> > > +     // should always be greater than any other counter's enabled time.
> > > +     return read_tool_counters();
> > >  }
> > >
> > >  static void process_counters(void)
> > > diff --git a/tools/perf/util/evlist.c b/tools/perf/util/evlist.c
> > > index b6df81b8a236..fc3dae7cdfca 100644
> > > --- a/tools/perf/util/evlist.c
> > > +++ b/tools/perf/util/evlist.c
> > > @@ -368,10 +368,6 @@ static bool evlist__use_affinity(struct evlist *evlist)
> > >       struct perf_cpu_map *used_cpus = NULL;
> > >       bool ret = false;
> > >
> > > -     /*
> > > -      * With perf record core.user_requested_cpus is usually NULL.
> > > -      * Use the old method to handle this for now.
> > > -      */
> > >       if (!evlist->core.user_requested_cpus ||
> > >           cpu_map__is_dummy(evlist->core.user_requested_cpus))
> > >               return false;
> > > --
> > > 2.51.2.1041.gc1ab5b90ca-goog
> > >