[PATCH 2/2] perf, tools: Don't force MetricExprs to lower case

Andi Kleen
2017-09-12T19:56:55Z

From: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>

There are still problems with BPF misinterpreting some events
that include .c. An earlier fix made it work for stand alone
aliases, but it still fails for more complex constructs.

REJECT keeps trying and trying a shorter string until
.c is matched and it appears like a valid BPF path.

% perf stat -e cpu/uops_executed.core,cmask=1/ true
bpf: builtin compilation failed: -95, try external compiler
ERROR: problems with path cpu/uops_executed.c: No such file or directory
event syntax error: 'cpu/uops_executed.core,cmask=1/'
\___ Failed to load cpu/uops_executed.c from source: Error when compiling BPF scriptlet

I tried to fix it, but it exceeds my flex knowledge, because
REJECT does not interact well with BEGIN states.

The BPF syntax in its current form really causes an ambigious
grammar.

A workaround for this is to spell the event upper case,
because upper case .C does not match the BPF rules.

This currently affects some of the ILP metrics. The previous
patch changed the ILP metrics to use upper case. Now if we
don't force everything to lower case the matching works.

This makes ILP work correctly on my IvyBridge:

% ./perf stat -M ILP true

Performance counter stats for 'true':

711,067 UOPS_EXECUTED.THREAD # 2.3 ILP
311,680 cpu/UOPS_EXECUTED.CORE,cmask=1/
311,680 UOPS_EXECUTED.CYCLES_GE_1_UOP_EXEC

0.000371554 seconds time elapsed

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
---
tools/perf/pmu-events/jevents.c | 2 --
1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tools/perf/pmu-events/jevents.c b/tools/perf/pmu-events/jevents.c
index 9eb7047bafe4..07c0f9a46180 100644
--- a/tools/perf/pmu-events/jevents.c
+++ b/tools/perf/pmu-events/jevents.c
@@ -488,8 +488,6 @@ int json_events(const char *fn,
addfield(map, &metric_group, "", "", val);
} else if (json_streq(map, field, "MetricExpr")) {
addfield(map, &metric_expr, "", "", val);
- for (s = metric_expr; *s; s++)
- *s = tolower(*s);
}
/* ignore unknown fields */
}
--
2.9.5