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From: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
To: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
	 Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>,
	Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>,
	 Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>,
	Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>,  Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>,
	Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>,
	 "Dr. David Alan Gilbert" <linux@treblig.org>,
	Yang Li <yang.lee@linux.alibaba.com>,
	 James Clark <james.clark@linaro.org>,
	Thomas Falcon <thomas.falcon@intel.com>,
	 Thomas Richter <tmricht@linux.ibm.com>,
	linux-perf-users@vger.kernel.org,  linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>,
	 Dapeng Mi <dapeng1.mi@linux.intel.com>
Subject: [PATCH v3 8/9] perf stat: Read tool events last
Date: Wed,  5 Nov 2025 23:12:39 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20251106071241.141234-9-irogers@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20251106071241.141234-1-irogers@google.com>

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.

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 5f31cd5bb03b..75ff08c5f0ed 100644
--- a/tools/perf/builtin-stat.c
+++ b/tools/perf/builtin-stat.c
@@ -373,6 +373,9 @@ 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);
 	}
@@ -396,6 +399,24 @@ 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;
@@ -409,7 +430,13 @@ 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


  parent reply	other threads:[~2025-11-06  7:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2025-11-06  7:12 [PATCH v3 0/9] perf stat fixes and improvements Ian Rogers
2025-11-06  7:12 ` [PATCH v3 1/9] libperf cpumap: Reduce allocations and sorting in intersect Ian Rogers
2025-11-06  7:12 ` [PATCH v3 2/9] perf pmu: perf_cpu_map__new_int to avoid parsing a string Ian Rogers
2025-11-06  7:12 ` [PATCH v3 3/9] perf tool_pmu: Use old_count when computing count values for time events Ian Rogers
2025-11-06  7:12 ` [PATCH v3 4/9] perf stat-shadow: Read tool events directly Ian Rogers
2025-11-06  7:12 ` [PATCH v3 5/9] perf stat: Reduce scope of ru_stats Ian Rogers
2025-11-06  7:12 ` [PATCH v3 6/9] perf tool_pmu: More accurately set the cpus for tool events Ian Rogers
2025-11-06  7:12 ` [PATCH v3 7/9] perf evlist: Reduce affinity use and move into iterator, fix no affinity Ian Rogers
2025-11-06  7:12 ` Ian Rogers [this message]
2025-11-06  7:12 ` [PATCH v3 9/9] perf stat: Add no-affinity flag Ian Rogers
2025-11-06 17:31   ` Andi Kleen

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