Re: [PATCH] perf tools: Add missing Intel CPU events to parser

[Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>]

On 25/03/20 4:22 pm, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote:
> Em Wed, Mar 25, 2020 at 02:53:50PM +0100, Jiri Olsa escreveu:
>> On Wed, Mar 25, 2020 at 10:15:49AM -0300, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote:
>>> Em Wed, Mar 25, 2020 at 11:33:45AM +0100, Jiri Olsa escreveu:
>>>> On Tue, Mar 24, 2020 at 05:04:43PM +0200, Adrian Hunter wrote:
>>>>> perf list expects CPU events to be parseable by name, e.g.
>>>
>>>>>     # perf list | grep el-capacity-read
>>>>>       el-capacity-read OR cpu/el-capacity-read/          [Kernel PMU event]
>>>
>>>>> But the event parser does not recognize them that way, e.g.
>>>
>>>>>     # perf test -v "Parse event"
>>>>>     <SNIP>
>>>>>     running test 54 'cycles//u'
>>>>>     running test 55 'cycles:k'
>>>>>     running test 0 'cpu/config=10,config1,config2=3,period=1000/u'
>>>>>     running test 1 'cpu/config=1,name=krava/u,cpu/config=2/u'
>>>>>     running test 2 'cpu/config=1,call-graph=fp,time,period=100000/,cpu/config=2,call-graph=no,time=0,period=2000/'
>>>>>     running test 3 'cpu/name='COMPLEX_CYCLES_NAME:orig=cycles,desc=chip-clock-ticks',period=0x1,event=0x2/ukp'
>>>>>     -> cpu/event=0,umask=0x11/
>>>>>     -> cpu/event=0,umask=0x13/
>>>>>     -> cpu/event=0x54,umask=0x1/
>>>>>     failed to parse event 'el-capacity-read:u,cpu/event=el-capacity-read/u', err 1, str 'parser error'
>>>>>     event syntax error: 'el-capacity-read:u,cpu/event=el-capacity-read/u'
>>>>>                            \___ parser error test child finished with 1
>>>>>     ---- end ----
>>>>>     Parse event definition strings: FAILED!
>>>
>>>>> Fix by adding missing Intel CPU events to the event parser.
>>>>> Missing events were found by using:
>>>
>>>>>     grep -r EVENT_ATTR_STR arch/x86/events/intel/core.c
>>>>>
>>>>> Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
>>>>
>>>> Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
>>>
>>> So, I'm not being able to reproduce this, what an I missing?
>>
>> I think you need to be on some really recent intel
>> which defines events which we did not covered yet
>> like el-capacity-write in icelake
> 
> That is why I tried with el-capacity, which is moved to the parser as
> well, I've replaced el-capacity-read, which I don't have in this Kaby
> Lake machine, with el-capacity, that is present:
> 
> [root@seventh ~]# perf list | grep el-capacity
>   el-capacity OR cpu/el-capacity/                    [Kernel PMU event]
> [root@seventh ~]#

I just checked that and it seems to be a "feature" of the parser that it
gets confused between el-capacity and el-capacity-read.

Making them explicit in parse-events.l makes the problem go away, but I
wonder now if the parser could be better in this regard.

Any ideas?