Re: [PATCH 5/5] perf annotate: Add --skip-empty option

[Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>]

On Sat, Aug 03, 2024 at 02:13:32PM -0700, Namhyung Kim wrote:
> Like in perf report, we want to hide empty events in the perf annotate
> output.  This is consistent when the option is set in perf report.
> 
> For example, the following command would use 3 events including dummy.
> 
>   $ perf mem record -a -- perf test -w noploop
> 
>   $ perf evlist
>   cpu/mem-loads,ldlat=30/P
>   cpu/mem-stores/P
>   dummy:u
> 
> Just using perf annotate with --group will show the all 3 events.

Seems unrelated, just before compiling with this patch:

root@x1:~# perf mem record -a -- perf test -w noploop
Memory events are enabled on a subset of CPUs: 4-11
[ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ]
[ perf record: Captured and wrote 10.506 MB perf.data (2775 samples) ]
root@x1:~#

root@x1:~# perf annotate --group --stdio2 sched_clock
root@x1:~# perf annotate --stdio2 sched_clock
Samples: 178  of event 'cpu_atom/mem-stores/P', 4000 Hz, Event count (approx.): 565268, [percent: local period]
sched_clock() /usr/lib/debug/lib/modules/6.8.11-200.fc39.x86_64/vmlinux
Percent      0xffffffff810511e0 <sched_clock>:
               endbr64        
   5.76        incl    pcpu_hot+0x8
   5.47      → callq   sched_clock_noinstr
  88.78        decl    pcpu_hot+0x8
             ↓ je      1e     
             → jmp     __x86_return_thunk
         1e: → callq   __SCT__preempt_schedule_notrace
             → jmp     __x86_return_thunk
root@x1:~# perf annotate --group --stdio2 sched_clock
root@x1:~# perf annotate --group --stdio sched_clock
root@x1:~# perf annotate --group sched_clock
root@x1:~#

root@x1:~# perf evlist
cpu_atom/mem-loads,ldlat=30/P
cpu_atom/mem-stores/P
dummy:u
root@x1:~#

root@x1:~# perf report --header-only | grep cmdline
# cmdline : /home/acme/bin/perf mem record -a -- perf test -w noploop 
root@x1:~#

I thought it would be some hybrid oddity but seems to be just --group
related, seems like it stops if the first event has no samples? Because
it works with another symbol:

root@x1:~# perf annotate --group --stdio2 do_lookup_x | head -25
Samples: 20  of events 'cpu_atom/mem-loads,ldlat=30/P, cpu_atom/mem-stores/P, dummy:u', 4000 Hz, Event count (approx.): 769079, [percent: local period]
do_lookup_x() /usr/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2
Percent                       0x9900 <do_lookup_x>:       
                                pushq      %rbp                 
                                movq       %rsp,%rbp            
                                pushq      %r15                 
                                pushq      %r14                 
                                pushq      %r13                 
                                pushq      %r12                 
                                pushq      %rbx                 
                                subq       $0x88,%rsp           
                                movq       %rdi,-0x50(%rbp)     
                                movl       8(%r9),%edi          
                                movq       0x10(%rbp),%r12      
                                movq       0x28(%rbp),%r10      
                                movq       %rdx,-0x70(%rbp)     
                                movq       %rcx,-0x58(%rbp)     
                                movq       %rdi,%r11            
   0.00    5.73    0.00         movq       %r8,-0x68(%rbp)      
                                movq       (%r9),%r8            
                                movl       %esi,%eax            
   8.30    0.00    0.00         movl       0x30(%rbp),%r9d      
                                movl       %esi,%r15d           
                                shrl       $6, %eax             
                                movq       %r8,%r13             
root@x1:~#

Just leaving a note here, no time to fully investigate this now,

- Arnaldo