Re: [PATCH] perf stat: fix per-pkg event reporting bug

[Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>]

On Thu, Sep 03, 2015 at 05:05:32AM -0700, Stephane Eranian wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 3, 2015 at 5:01 AM, Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> wrote:
> > On Thu, Sep 03, 2015 at 04:48:52AM -0700, Stephane Eranian wrote:
> >> On Thu, Sep 3, 2015 at 3:01 AM, Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> wrote:
> >> > On Wed, Sep 02, 2015 at 03:17:51PM +0200, Stephane Eranian wrote:
> >> >
> >> > SNIP
> >> >
> >> >> +     /*
> >> >> +      * we do not consider an event that has not run as a good
> >> >> +      * instance to mark a package as used (skip=1). Otherwise
> >> >> +      * we may run into a situation where the first CPU in a package
> >> >> +      * is not running anything, yet the second is, and this function
> >> >> +      * would mark the package as used after the first CPU and would
> >> >> +      * not read the values from the second CPU.
> >> >> +      */
> >> >> +     if (!(vals->run && vals->ena))
> >> >> +             return 0;
> >> >> +
> >> >>       s = cpu_map__get_socket(cpus, cpu);
> >> >>       if (s < 0)
> >> >>               return -1;
> >> >> @@ -235,7 +247,7 @@ process_counter_values(struct perf_stat_config *config, struct perf_evsel *evsel
> >> >>       static struct perf_counts_values zero;
> >> >>       bool skip = false;
> >> >>
> >> >> -     if (check_per_pkg(evsel, cpu, &skip)) {
> >> >> +     if (check_per_pkg(evsel, aggr, cpu, &skip)) {
> >> >
> >> > should we pass 'count' instead o 'aggr' ?
> >> >
> >> the reason I passed counts_values is in case this function needs to be
> >> called from other places which do
> >> not use aggr mode.
> >
> > sure, but 'aggr' is being computed within process_counter_values
> >
> > process_counter_values gets 'count' argument with values read
> > for given cpu/thread for further processing, and it seems to
> > me that 'count' values should be passed to check_per_pkg
> >
> You do not want to aggregate values, you want to look at the individual events
> for each CPU because you need to look at their run/ena fields.

yes, but for 'count' not 'aggr'

jirka


---
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/stat.c b/tools/perf/util/stat.c
index f1d83599217b..2d065d065b67 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/stat.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/stat.c
@@ -247,7 +247,7 @@ process_counter_values(struct perf_stat_config *config, struct perf_evsel *evsel
 	static struct perf_counts_values zero;
 	bool skip = false;
 
-	if (check_per_pkg(evsel, aggr, cpu, &skip)) {
+	if (check_per_pkg(evsel, count, cpu, &skip)) {
 		pr_err("failed to read per-pkg counter\n");
 		return -1;
 	}