linux/tools/perf
Thomas Richter 6dde6429c5 perf stat: Remove duplicate event counting
'perf stat' shows a mismatch in perf stat regarding counter names on
s390:

Run command:

   [root@s35lp76 perf]# ./perf stat -e tx_nc_tend  -v --
                ~/mytesttx 1 >/tmp/111
   tx_nc_tend: 1 573146 573146
   tx_nc_tend: 1 573146 573146

   Performance counter stats for '/root/mytesttx 1':

                 3      tx_nc_tend

       0.001037252 seconds time elapsed

   [root@s35lp76 perf]#

shows transaction counter tx_nc_tend with value 3 but it was triggered
only once as seen by the output of mytesttx.

When looking up the event name tx_nc_tend the following function
sequence is called:

parse_events_multi_pmu_add()
+--> perf_pmu__scan() being called with NULL argument
     +--> pmu_read_sysfs() scans directory ../devices/ for
                           all PMUs
          +--> perf_pmu__find() tries to find a PMU in the
                           global pmu list.
               +--> pmu_lookup() called to read all file
                                 entries when not in global
                                 list.

pmu_lookup() causes the issue. It calls
+---> pmu_aliases() to read all the entries in the PMU directory.
                    On s390 this is named
                    /sys/devices/cpum_cf/events.
      +--> pmu_aliases_parse() reads all files and creates an
                       alias for each file name.

                       So we end up with first entry created by
                       reading the sysfs file
                       [root@s35lp76 perf]# cat /sys/devices/cpum_cf
                                                /events/TX_NC_TEND
                       event=0x008d
                       [root@s35lp76 perf]#

                       Debug output shows this entry
                       tx_nc_tend -> 'cpum_cf'/'event=0x008d
                       '/
                       After all files in this directory have been
                       read and aliases created this function is called:
      +--> pmu_add_cpu_aliases()
                       This function looks up the CPU tables
                       created by the json files.
                       With json files for s390 now available all
                       the aliases are added to
                       the PMU alias list a second time.
                       The second entry is added by
                       reading the json file converted by jevent
                       resulting in file pmu-events/pmu-events.c:

                       {
                         .name = "tx_nc_tend",
                         .event = "event=0x8d",
                         .desc = "Unit: cpum_cf Completed TEND \
                                  instructions \
                                  in non-constrained TX mode",
                         .topic = "extended",
                         .long_desc = "A TEND instruction has \
                                       completed  in a \
                                       non-constrained \
                                       transactional-execution mode",
                         .pmu = "cpum_cf",
                        },

                        Debug output shows this entry
                        tx_nc_tend -> 'cpum_cf'/'event=0x8d'/

Function pmu_aliases_parse() and pmu_add_cpu_aliases() both use
__perf_pmu__new_alias() to add an alias to the PMU alias list. There is
no check if an alias already exist

So we end up with 2 entries for tx_nc_tend in the PMU alias list.

Having set up the PMU alias list for this PMU now
parse_events_multi_add_pmu() reads the complete alias list and adds each
alias with parse_events_add_pmu() to the global perfev_list.  This
causes the alias to be added multiple times to the event list.

Fix this by making __perf_pmu__new_alias() to merge alias definitions if
an alias is already on the alias list.  Also print a debug message when
the alias has mismatches in some fields.

Output before:

  [root@s35lp76 perf]# ./perf stat -e tx_nc_tend  -v \
                        -- ~/mytesttx 1 >/tmp/111
  tx_nc_tend: 1 551446 551446

   Performance counter stats for '/root/mytesttx 1':

                   3      tx_nc_tend

         0.000961134 seconds time elapsed

  [root@s35lp76 perf]#

Output after:

  [root@s35lp76 perf]#  ./perf stat -e tx_nc_tend  -v \
                        -- ~/mytesttx 1 >/tmp/111
  tx_nc_tend: 1 551446 551446

   Performance counter stats for '/root/mytesttx 1':

                   1      tx_nc_tend

         0.000961134 seconds time elapsed

  [root@s35lp76 perf]#

Signed-off-by: Thomas Richter <tmricht@linux.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Hendrik Brueckner <brueckner@linux.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180615101105.47047-3-tmricht@linux.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2018-06-25 11:59:37 -03:00
..
arch perf tools: Update x86's syscall_64.tbl, adding 'io_pgetevents' and 'rseq' 2018-06-25 11:59:36 -03:00
bench perf bench numa: Fix typo in options 2018-05-07 12:17:56 -03:00
Documentation perf stat: Add --interval-clear option 2018-06-07 15:53:36 -03:00
examples/bpf perf bpf: Add probe() helper to reduce kprobes boilerplate 2018-05-15 14:31:24 -03:00
include/bpf perf bpf: Add probe() helper to reduce kprobes boilerplate 2018-05-15 14:31:24 -03:00
jvmti perf jvmti: Generate correct debug information for inlined code 2017-12-18 11:54:08 -03:00
pmu-events perf vendor events intel: Remove duplicated entry for westmereep-dp in mapfile.csv 2018-05-07 15:23:45 -03:00
python perf python: Make twatch.py work with both python2 and python3 2018-02-19 12:28:08 -03:00
scripts perf script powerpc: Python script for hypervisor call statistics 2018-06-06 12:52:06 -03:00
tests perf tests: Add valid callback for parse-events test 2018-06-25 11:59:36 -03:00
trace perf trace beauty prctl: Default header_dir to cwd to work without parms 2018-06-01 16:13:06 -03:00
ui perf hists browser gtk: Use hist_entry__has_callchains() 2018-06-07 14:33:31 -03:00
util perf stat: Remove duplicate event counting 2018-06-25 11:59:37 -03:00
.gitignore perf tools: Add trace/beauty/generated/ into .gitignore 2018-02-05 13:58:02 -03:00
Build perf trace: Remove audit-libs dependency if syscall tables are present 2018-01-23 09:51:38 -03:00
builtin-annotate.c perf annotate: Move objdump_path to struct annotation_options 2018-06-04 10:28:53 -03:00
builtin-bench.c License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
builtin-buildid-cache.c perf buildid-cache: Warn --purge-all failures 2018-05-15 10:32:16 -03:00
builtin-buildid-list.c Merge branch 'linus' into perf/core, to fix conflicts 2017-11-07 10:30:18 +01:00
builtin-c2c.c perf c2c: Keep struct hist_entry at the end of struct c2c_hist_entry 2018-06-08 13:35:53 -03:00
builtin-config.c Merge branch 'linus' into perf/core, to fix conflicts 2017-11-07 10:30:18 +01:00
builtin-data.c License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
builtin-diff.c Merge branch 'linus' into perf/core, to fix conflicts 2017-11-07 10:30:18 +01:00
builtin-evlist.c Merge branch 'linus' into perf/core, to fix conflicts 2017-11-07 10:30:18 +01:00
builtin-ftrace.c perf ftrace: Append an EOL when write tracing files 2018-02-19 09:49:12 -03:00
builtin-help.c perf tools: Rename HAVE_SYSCALL_TABLE to HAVE_SYSCALL_TABLE_SUPPORT 2018-04-12 10:33:31 -03:00
builtin-inject.c perf thread: Make thread__find_map() return the map 2018-04-26 13:47:08 -03:00
builtin-kallsyms.c perf machine: Ditch find_kernel_function variants 2018-04-30 12:20:54 -03:00
builtin-kmem.c perf machine: Ditch find_kernel_function variants 2018-04-30 12:20:54 -03:00
builtin-kvm.c perf tools: Ditch the symbol_conf.nr_events global 2018-06-04 10:28:52 -03:00
builtin-list.c Merge branch 'linus' into perf/core, to fix conflicts 2017-11-07 10:30:18 +01:00
builtin-lock.c Merge branch 'linus' into perf/core, to fix conflicts 2017-11-07 10:30:18 +01:00
builtin-mem.c perf mem: Allow all record/report options 2018-04-18 15:35:48 -03:00
builtin-probe.c perf tools: No need to check if the argument to __get() function is NULL 2018-06-04 10:28:50 -03:00
builtin-record.c perf record: Synthesize features before events in pipe mode 2018-03-16 13:56:50 -03:00
builtin-report.c perf report: No need to have report_callchain_help as a global 2018-06-04 10:28:54 -03:00
builtin-sched.c perf sched: Use sched->show_callchain where appropriate 2018-06-05 10:09:54 -03:00
builtin-script.c perf script: Show hw-cache events 2018-06-08 13:41:30 -03:00
builtin-stat.c perf stat: Add event parsing error handling to add_default_attributes 2018-06-07 16:03:21 -03:00
builtin-timechart.c perf thread: Make thread__find_symbol() return the symbol searched 2018-04-26 13:47:09 -03:00
builtin-top.c perf annotate: Move objdump_path to struct annotation_options 2018-06-04 10:28:53 -03:00
builtin-trace.c perf evsel: Add has_callchain() helper to make code more compact/clear 2018-06-05 10:09:54 -03:00
builtin-version.c perf version: Print status for syscall_table 2018-04-12 10:33:34 -03:00
builtin.h License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
check-headers.sh perf check-headers.sh: Add support to check 2 independent files 2018-04-26 09:30:26 -03:00
command-list.txt perf tools: Missing c2c command in command-list 2017-03-13 10:59:31 -03:00
CREDITS
design.txt
Makefile License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
Makefile.config perf bpf: Add 'examples' directories 2018-05-15 14:31:23 -03:00
Makefile.perf perf bpf: Fixup include and examples install messages 2018-05-19 06:42:50 -03:00
MANIFEST perf tools: Get all of tools/{arch,include}/ in the MANIFEST 2017-09-25 10:39:43 -03:00
perf-archive.sh License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
perf-completion.sh perf tools: Auto-complete for events with ':' 2017-12-27 12:16:00 -03:00
perf-read-vdso.c License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
perf-sys.h Drop a bunch of metag references 2018-02-23 14:29:59 +00:00
perf-with-kcore.sh
perf.c perf tools: Remove dead quote.[ch] code 2018-06-04 10:28:50 -03:00
perf.h perf tools: Add 'perf -vv' as an alias to 'perf version --build-options' 2018-04-02 13:50:35 -03:00