[PATCH V4 0/5] New metricgroup output in perf stat default mode

kan.liang
2023-06-16T03:15:41Z

From: Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com>

Changes since V3:
- Move the full name (PMU + metricgroup name) generation from the metric
code to the output code. (Ian)
- Add default tags for Hisi hip08 L1 metrics (John)
- Some patches have been merged. Drop them from the V4.

Changes since V2:
- Fixes memory leak (Ian)
(Ian, I cannot reproduce the memory leak on all my machines. Please
check whether the fix works on your side. Thanks.)
- Add Reviewed-by tags for several patches.

Changes since V1:
- Remove EVSEL_EVENT_MASK and use the __evsel__match which is suggested
by Ian.
- Support TopdownL1 on both e-core and p-core of ADL in the default
mode. (Ian)
- Have separate patches for the modifications of metricgroup and output.
(Ian)
- Does 2nd sort for the Default metricgroup. Remove the logic of
changing the associated metric event. (Ian)
- Move all the metric related code to stat-shadow (Ian)
- Move the commong functions between stat+csv_output and stat+std_output
to the lib directory (Ian)

In the default mode, the current output of the metricgroup include both
events and metrics, which is not necessary and makes the output hard to
read. Also, different ARCHs (even different generations of the ARCH) may
have a different output format because of the different events in a
metrics.

The patch proposes a new output format which only outputting the value
of each metric and the metricgroup name. It can brings a clean and
consistent output format among ARCHs and generations.

The patches 1-2 introduce the new metricgroup output.

The patches 3-4 improve the tests to cover the default mode.

The patch 5 update the event list for Hisi hip08.

Here are some examples for the new output.

STD output:

On SPR

perf stat -a sleep 1

Performance counter stats for 'system wide':

226,054.13 msec cpu-clock # 224.588 CPUs utilized
932 context-switches # 4.123 /sec
224 cpu-migrations # 0.991 /sec
76 page-faults # 0.336 /sec
45,940,682 cycles # 0.000 GHz
36,676,047 instructions # 0.80 insn per cycle
7,044,516 branches # 31.163 K/sec
62,169 branch-misses # 0.88% of all branches
TopdownL1 # 68.7 % tma_backend_bound
# 3.1 % tma_bad_speculation
# 13.0 % tma_frontend_bound
# 15.2 % tma_retiring
TopdownL2 # 2.7 % tma_branch_mispredicts
# 19.6 % tma_core_bound
# 4.8 % tma_fetch_bandwidth
# 8.3 % tma_fetch_latency
# 2.9 % tma_heavy_operations
# 12.3 % tma_light_operations
# 0.4 % tma_machine_clears
# 49.1 % tma_memory_bound

1.006529767 seconds time elapsed

perf stat -a sleep 1

Performance counter stats for 'system wide':

32,127.99 msec cpu-clock # 31.992 CPUs utilized
240 context-switches # 7.470 /sec
32 cpu-migrations # 0.996 /sec
74 page-faults # 2.303 /sec
6,313,960 cpu_core/cycles/ # 0.000 GHz
257,711,907 cpu_atom/cycles/ # 0.008 GHz (54.18%)
4,477,162 cpu_core/instructions/ # 0.71 insn per cycle
37,721,481 cpu_atom/instructions/ # 5.97 insn per cycle (63.33%)
809,747 cpu_core/branches/ # 25.204 K/sec
6,621,226 cpu_atom/branches/ # 206.089 K/sec (63.32%)
39,667 cpu_core/branch-misses/ # 4.90% of all branches
1,032,146 cpu_atom/branch-misses/ # 127.47% of all branches (63.33%)
TopdownL1 (cpu_core) # nan % tma_backend_bound
# 0.0 % tma_bad_speculation
# nan % tma_frontend_bound
# nan % tma_retiring
TopdownL1 (cpu_atom) # 13.6 % tma_bad_speculation (63.36%)
# 41.1 % tma_frontend_bound (63.54%)
# 39.2 % tma_backend_bound
# 39.2 % tma_backend_bound_aux (63.93%)
# 5.4 % tma_retiring (64.15%)

1.004244114 seconds time elapsed

JSON output

on SPR

perf stat --json -a sleep 1
{"counter-value" : "225904.823297", "unit" : "msec", "event" : "cpu-clock", "event-runtime" : 225904323425, "pcnt-running" : 100.00, "metric-value" : "224.456872", "metric-unit" : "CPUs utilized"}
{"counter-value" : "986.000000", "unit" : "", "event" : "context-switches", "event-runtime" : 225904108985, "pcnt-running" : 100.00, "metric-value" : "4.364670", "metric-unit" : "/sec"}
{"counter-value" : "224.000000", "unit" : "", "event" : "cpu-migrations", "event-runtime" : 225904016141, "pcnt-running" : 100.00, "metric-value" : "0.991568", "metric-unit" : "/sec"}
{"counter-value" : "76.000000", "unit" : "", "event" : "page-faults", "event-runtime" : 225903913270, "pcnt-running" : 100.00, "metric-value" : "0.336425", "metric-unit" : "/sec"}
{"counter-value" : "48433482.000000", "unit" : "", "event" : "cycles", "event-runtime" : 225903792732, "pcnt-running" : 100.00, "metric-value" : "0.000214", "metric-unit" : "GHz"}
{"counter-value" : "38620409.000000", "unit" : "", "event" : "instructions", "event-runtime" : 225903657830, "pcnt-running" : 100.00, "metric-value" : "0.797391", "metric-unit" : "insn per cycle"}
{"counter-value" : "7369473.000000", "unit" : "", "event" : "branches", "event-runtime" : 225903464328, "pcnt-running" : 100.00, "metric-value" : "32.622026", "metric-unit" : "K/sec"}
{"counter-value" : "54747.000000", "unit" : "", "event" : "branch-misses", "event-runtime" : 225903234523, "pcnt-running" : 100.00, "metric-value" : "0.742889", "metric-unit" : "of all branches"}
{"event-runtime" : 225902840555, "pcnt-running" : 100.00, "metricgroup" : "TopdownL1"}
{"metric-value" : "69.950631", "metric-unit" : "% tma_backend_bound"}
{"metric-value" : "2.771783", "metric-unit" : "% tma_bad_speculation"}
{"metric-value" : "12.026074", "metric-unit" : "% tma_frontend_bound"}
{"metric-value" : "15.251513", "metric-unit" : "% tma_retiring"}
{"event-runtime" : 225902840555, "pcnt-running" : 100.00, "metricgroup" : "TopdownL2"}
{"metric-value" : "2.351757", "metric-unit" : "% tma_branch_mispredicts"}
{"metric-value" : "19.729771", "metric-unit" : "% tma_core_bound"}
{"metric-value" : "4.555207", "metric-unit" : "% tma_fetch_bandwidth"}
{"metric-value" : "7.470867", "metric-unit" : "% tma_fetch_latency"}
{"metric-value" : "2.938808", "metric-unit" : "% tma_heavy_operations"}
{"metric-value" : "12.312705", "metric-unit" : "% tma_light_operations"}
{"metric-value" : "0.420026", "metric-unit" : "% tma_machine_clears"}
{"metric-value" : "50.220860", "metric-unit" : "% tma_memory_bound"}

On hybrid

perf stat --json -a sleep 1
{"counter-value" : "32131.530625", "unit" : "msec", "event" : "cpu-clock", "event-runtime" : 32131536951, "pcnt-running" : 100.00, "metric-value" : "31.992642", "metric-unit" : "CPUs utilized"}
{"counter-value" : "328.000000", "unit" : "", "event" : "context-switches", "event-runtime" : 32131525778, "pcnt-running" : 100.00, "metric-value" : "10.208042", "metric-unit" : "/sec"}
{"counter-value" : "32.000000", "unit" : "", "event" : "cpu-migrations", "event-runtime" : 32131515104, "pcnt-running" : 100.00, "metric-value" : "0.995906", "metric-unit" : "/sec"}
{"counter-value" : "353.000000", "unit" : "", "event" : "page-faults", "event-runtime" : 32131501396, "pcnt-running" : 100.00, "metric-value" : "10.986094", "metric-unit" : "/sec"}
{"counter-value" : "18685492.000000", "unit" : "", "event" : "cpu_core/cycles/", "event-runtime" : 16061585292, "pcnt-running" : 100.00, "metric-value" : "0.000582", "metric-unit" : "GHz"}
{"counter-value" : "255620352.000000", "unit" : "", "event" : "cpu_atom/cycles/", "event-runtime" : 8690268422, "pcnt-running" : 54.00, "metric-value" : "0.007955", "metric-unit" : "GHz"}
{"counter-value" : "15489913.000000", "unit" : "", "event" : "cpu_core/instructions/", "event-runtime" : 16061582200, "pcnt-running" : 100.00, "metric-value" : "0.828981", "metric-unit" : "insn per cycle"}
{"counter-value" : "38790161.000000", "unit" : "", "event" : "cpu_atom/instructions/", "event-runtime" : 10163133324, "pcnt-running" : 63.00, "metric-value" : "2.075951", "metric-unit" : "insn per cycle"}
{"counter-value" : "2908031.000000", "unit" : "", "event" : "cpu_core/branches/", "event-runtime" : 16061563416, "pcnt-running" : 100.00, "metric-value" : "90.503967", "metric-unit" : "K/sec"}
{"counter-value" : "6814948.000000", "unit" : "", "event" : "cpu_atom/branches/", "event-runtime" : 10161711336, "pcnt-running" : 63.00, "metric-value" : "212.095343", "metric-unit" : "K/sec"}
{"counter-value" : "97638.000000", "unit" : "", "event" : "cpu_core/branch-misses/", "event-runtime" : 16061535261, "pcnt-running" : 100.00, "metric-value" : "3.357530", "metric-unit" : "of all branches"}
{"counter-value" : "1017066.000000", "unit" : "", "event" : "cpu_atom/branch-misses/", "event-runtime" : 10159971797, "pcnt-running" : 63.00, "metric-value" : "34.974386", "metric-unit" : "of all branches"}
{"event-runtime" : 16061513607, "pcnt-running" : 100.00, "metricgroup" : "TopdownL1 (cpu_core)"}
{"metric-value" : "nan", "metric-unit" : "% tma_backend_bound"}
{"metric-value" : "0.000000", "metric-unit" : "% tma_bad_speculation"}
{"metric-value" : "nan", "metric-unit" : "% tma_frontend_bound"}
{"metric-value" : "nan", "metric-unit" : "% tma_retiring"}
{"event-runtime" : 10157398501, "pcnt-running" : 63.00, "metricgroup" : "TopdownL1 (cpu_atom)"}
{"metric-value" : "13.719821", "metric-unit" : "% tma_bad_speculation"}
{"event-runtime" : 10178698656, "pcnt-running" : 63.00, "metric-value" : "41.016738", "metric-unit" : "% tma_frontend_bound"}
{"event-runtime" : 10240582902, "pcnt-running" : 63.00, "metric-value" : "39.327764", "metric-unit" : "% tma_backend_bound"}
{"metric-value" : "39.327764", "metric-unit" : "% tma_backend_bound_aux"}
{"event-runtime" : 10284284920, "pcnt-running" : 64.00, "metric-value" : "5.374638", "metric-unit" : "% tma_retiring"}

CSV output

On SPR

perf stat -x, -a sleep 1
225851.20,msec,cpu-clock,225850700108,100.00,224.431,CPUs utilized
976,,context-switches,225850504803,100.00,4.321,/sec
224,,cpu-migrations,225850410336,100.00,0.992,/sec
76,,page-faults,225850304155,100.00,0.337,/sec
52288305,,cycles,225850188531,100.00,0.000,GHz
37977214,,instructions,225850071251,100.00,0.73,insn per cycle
7299859,,branches,225849890722,100.00,32.322,K/sec
51102,,branch-misses,225849672536,100.00,0.70,of all branches
,225849327050,100.00,,,,TopdownL1
,,,,,70.1,% tma_backend_bound
,,,,,2.7,% tma_bad_speculation
,,,,,12.5,% tma_frontend_bound
,,,,,14.6,% tma_retiring
,225849327050,100.00,,,,TopdownL2
,,,,,2.3,% tma_branch_mispredicts
,,,,,19.6,% tma_core_bound
,,,,,4.6,% tma_fetch_bandwidth
,,,,,7.9,% tma_fetch_latency
,,,,,2.9,% tma_heavy_operations
,,,,,11.7,% tma_light_operations
,,,,,0.5,% tma_machine_clears
,,,,,50.5,% tma_memory_bound

On Hybrid

perf stat -x, -a sleep 1
32139.34,msec,cpu-clock,32139351409,100.00,32.001,CPUs utilized
225,,context-switches,32139342672,100.00,7.001,/sec
32,,cpu-migrations,32139337772,100.00,0.996,/sec
72,,page-faults,32139328384,100.00,2.240,/sec
6766433,,cpu_core/cycles/,16067551558,100.00,0.000,GHz
256500230,,cpu_atom/cycles/,8695757391,54.00,0.008,GHz
4688595,,cpu_core/instructions/,16067558976,100.00,0.69,insn per cycle
37487490,,cpu_atom/instructions/,10165193856,63.00,5.54,insn per cycle
845211,,cpu_core/branches/,16067540225,100.00,26.298,K/sec
6571193,,cpu_atom/branches/,10155940853,63.00,204.459,K/sec
41359,,cpu_core/branch-misses/,16067516493,100.00,4.89,of all branches
1020231,,cpu_atom/branch-misses/,10159363620,63.00,120.71,of all branches
,16067494476,100.00,,,,TopdownL1 (cpu_core)
,,,,,,% tma_backend_bound
,,,,,0.0,% tma_bad_speculation
,,,,,,% tma_frontend_bound
,,,,,,% tma_retiring
,10160989992,63.00,,,,TopdownL1 (cpu_atom)
,,,,,13.8,% tma_bad_speculation
,10188319019,63.00,,,41.3,% tma_frontend_bound
,10258326591,63.00,,,38.6,% tma_backend_bound
,,,,,38.6,% tma_backend_bound_aux
,10282689488,64.00,,,5.4,% tma_retiring

Kan Liang (5):
perf metrics: Sort the Default metricgroup
perf stat: New metricgroup output for the default mode
perf test: Move all the check functions of stat csv output to lib
perf test: Add test case for the standard perf stat output
perf vendor events arm64: Add default tags for Hisi hip08 L1 metrics

tools/perf/builtin-stat.c | 1 +
.../arch/arm64/hisilicon/hip08/metrics.json | 12 +-
tools/perf/tests/shell/lib/stat_output.sh | 169 ++++++++++++++++
tools/perf/tests/shell/stat+csv_output.sh | 188 ++----------------
tools/perf/tests/shell/stat+std_output.sh | 108 ++++++++++
tools/perf/util/evsel.h | 1 +
tools/perf/util/metricgroup.c | 26 +++
tools/perf/util/metricgroup.h | 3 +
tools/perf/util/stat-display.c | 108 +++++++++-
tools/perf/util/stat-shadow.c | 131 ++++++++++--
tools/perf/util/stat.h | 15 ++
11 files changed, 563 insertions(+), 199 deletions(-)
create mode 100755 tools/perf/tests/shell/lib/stat_output.sh
create mode 100755 tools/perf/tests/shell/stat+std_output.sh

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