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From: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
To: "Paul A. Clarke" <pc@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>,
	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>,
	lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
	Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>,
	Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>,
	Michael Petlan <mpetlan@redhat.com>,
	Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>, Kajol Jain <kjain@linux.ibm.com>,
	John Garry <john.garry@huawei.com>,
	Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>,
	Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/18] perf metric: Add support to reuse metric
Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2020 23:41:34 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200715214134.GW183694@krava> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200715183327.GA21935@oc3272150783.ibm.com>

On Wed, Jul 15, 2020 at 01:33:27PM -0500, Paul A. Clarke wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 12, 2020 at 03:26:16PM +0200, Jiri Olsa wrote:
> > hi,
> > this patchset is adding the support to reused metric in another 
> > metric. The metric needs to be referenced by 'metric:' prefix.
> > 
> > For example, to define IPC by using CPI with change like:
> > 
> >          "BriefDescription": "Instructions Per Cycle (per Logical Processor)",
> >  -       "MetricExpr": "INST_RETIRED.ANY / CPU_CLK_UNHALTED.THREAD",
> >  +       "MetricExpr": "1/metric:CPI",
> >          "MetricGroup": "TopDownL1",
> >          "MetricName": "IPC"
> > 
> > I won't be able to find all the possible places we could
> > use this at, so I wonder you guys (who was asking for this)
> > would try it and come up with comments if there's something
> > missing or we could already use it at some places.
> > 
> > It's based on Arnaldo's tmp.perf/core.
> > 
> > v2 changes:
> >   - collected Ian's acks for few patches [Ian]
> >   - renamed expr__add_id to expr__add_id_val [Ian]
> >   - renamed expr_parse_data to expr_id_data [Ian]
> >   - added recursion check [Ian]
> >   - added metric test for DCache_L2 metric [Ian]
> >   - added some renames as discussed in review [Ian]
> > 
> > Also available in here:
> >   git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jolsa/perf.git
> >   perf/metric
> 
> I'm having trouble testing this.
> 
> I checked out this tree, and am able to build with a JSON metrics definition
> file which uses other metrics.  I put this aside, though, because of the
> following issue.
> 
> I built the kernel from this same tree and booted it successfully.
> However, the metrics are not working correctly.  (I may very well be
> doing something wrong.)

if you'll share the metric change I can help debugging that

> 
> The base system is RHEL8, but it's now booted with the new kernel.
> ```
> # uname -a
> Linux system 5.8.0-rc4-g7dd02cf0b #1 SMP Wed Jul 15 12:31:45 EDT 2020 ppc64le ppc64le ppc64le GNU/Linux
> # perf stat --metrics cpi_breakdown ./load
> failed: way too many variables

hm, this ^^^ error string was removed in:
  43fe337c86a9 perf expr: Migrate expr ids table to a hashmap

looks like you're not running the correct perf binary

thanks for testing this,
jirka


  reply	other threads:[~2020-07-15 21:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 58+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-07-12 13:26 [PATCH 00/18] perf metric: Add support to reuse metric Jiri Olsa
2020-07-12 13:26 ` [PATCH 01/18] perf metric: Rename expr__add_id to expr__add_val Jiri Olsa
2020-07-14 21:05   ` Ian Rogers
2020-07-16 15:25     ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2020-07-12 13:26 ` [PATCH 02/18] perf metric: Add struct expr_id_data to keep expr value Jiri Olsa
2020-07-14 21:06   ` Ian Rogers
2020-07-16 15:26     ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2020-07-12 13:26 ` [PATCH 03/18] perf metric: Add expr__add_id function Jiri Olsa
2020-07-16 15:29   ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2020-07-16 18:51     ` Jiri Olsa
2020-07-12 13:26 ` [PATCH 04/18] perf metric: Change expr__get_id to return struct expr_id_data Jiri Olsa
2020-07-12 13:26 ` [PATCH 05/18] perf metric: Add expr__del_id function Jiri Olsa
2020-07-14 21:07   ` Ian Rogers
2020-07-12 13:26 ` [PATCH 06/18] perf metric: Add find_metric function Jiri Olsa
2020-07-14 21:09   ` Ian Rogers
2020-07-12 13:26 ` [PATCH 07/18] perf metric: Add add_metric function Jiri Olsa
2020-07-14 21:11   ` Ian Rogers
2020-07-15 21:01     ` Jiri Olsa
2020-07-12 13:26 ` [PATCH 08/18] perf metric: Rename __metricgroup__add_metric to __add_metric Jiri Olsa
2020-07-14 21:11   ` Ian Rogers
2020-07-12 13:26 ` [PATCH 09/18] perf metric: Collect referenced metrics in struct metric_ref_node Jiri Olsa
2020-07-15  0:07   ` Ian Rogers
2020-07-15 21:13     ` Jiri Olsa
2020-07-15 22:05       ` Ian Rogers
2020-07-12 13:26 ` [PATCH 10/18] perf metric: Collect referenced metrics in struct metric_expr Jiri Olsa
2020-07-15  0:09   ` Ian Rogers
2020-07-12 13:26 ` [PATCH 11/18] perf metric: Add referenced metrics to hash data Jiri Olsa
2020-07-13 16:27   ` John Garry
2020-07-13 16:56     ` Jiri Olsa
2020-07-15 18:25   ` Ian Rogers
2020-07-15 21:36     ` Jiri Olsa
2020-07-17 13:51       ` Jiri Olsa
2020-07-12 13:26 ` [PATCH 12/18] perf metric: Compute referenced metrics Jiri Olsa
2020-07-15  0:12   ` Ian Rogers
2020-07-12 13:26 ` [PATCH 13/18] perf metric: Add events for the current group Jiri Olsa
2020-07-15 17:00   ` Ian Rogers
2020-07-15 21:19     ` Jiri Olsa
2020-07-15 22:14       ` Ian Rogers
2020-07-16 10:44         ` Jiri Olsa
2020-07-12 13:26 ` [PATCH 14/18] perf metric: Add cache_miss_cycles to metric parse test Jiri Olsa
2020-07-15 17:04   ` Ian Rogers
2020-07-12 13:26 ` [PATCH 15/18] perf metric: Add DCache_L2 " Jiri Olsa
2020-07-15 17:01   ` Ian Rogers
2020-07-12 13:26 ` [PATCH 16/18] perf metric: Add recursion check when processing nested metrics Jiri Olsa
2020-07-15 17:40   ` Ian Rogers
2020-07-15 21:29     ` Jiri Olsa
2020-07-12 13:26 ` [PATCH 17/18] perf metric: Rename struct egroup to metric Jiri Olsa
2020-07-15 17:42   ` Ian Rogers
2020-07-12 13:26 ` [PATCH 18/18] perf metric: Rename group_list to list Jiri Olsa
2020-07-15 18:04   ` Ian Rogers
2020-07-15 21:32     ` Jiri Olsa
2020-07-15 18:33 ` [PATCH 00/18] perf metric: Add support to reuse metric Paul A. Clarke
2020-07-15 21:41   ` Jiri Olsa [this message]
2020-07-16  1:25     ` Paul A. Clarke
2020-07-16 11:31       ` Jiri Olsa
2020-07-16  7:50 ` John Garry
2020-07-16 11:32   ` Jiri Olsa
2020-07-17 20:03     ` Jiri Olsa

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