Commit 0a892c1c94 ("perf record: Add dummy event during system wide
synthesis") reveals an issue with Intel PT system wide tracing.
Specifically that Intel PT already adds a dummy tracking event, and it
is not the first event. Adding another dummy tracking event causes
duplicated sideband events. Fix by checking for an existing dummy
tracking event first.
Example showing duplicated switch events:
Before:
# perf record -a -e intel_pt//u uname
Linux
[ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ]
[ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.895 MB perf.data ]
# perf script --no-itrace --show-switch-events | head
swapper 0 [007] 6390.516222: PERF_RECORD_SWITCH_CPU_WIDE OUT preempt next pid/tid: 11/11
swapper 0 [007] 6390.516222: PERF_RECORD_SWITCH_CPU_WIDE OUT preempt next pid/tid: 11/11
rcu_sched 11 [007] 6390.516223: PERF_RECORD_SWITCH_CPU_WIDE IN prev pid/tid: 0/0
rcu_sched 11 [007] 6390.516224: PERF_RECORD_SWITCH_CPU_WIDE IN prev pid/tid: 0/0
rcu_sched 11 [007] 6390.516227: PERF_RECORD_SWITCH_CPU_WIDE OUT next pid/tid: 0/0
rcu_sched 11 [007] 6390.516227: PERF_RECORD_SWITCH_CPU_WIDE OUT next pid/tid: 0/0
swapper 0 [007] 6390.516228: PERF_RECORD_SWITCH_CPU_WIDE IN prev pid/tid: 11/11
swapper 0 [007] 6390.516228: PERF_RECORD_SWITCH_CPU_WIDE IN prev pid/tid: 11/11
swapper 0 [002] 6390.516415: PERF_RECORD_SWITCH_CPU_WIDE OUT preempt next pid/tid: 5556/5559
swapper 0 [002] 6390.516416: PERF_RECORD_SWITCH_CPU_WIDE OUT preempt next pid/tid: 5556/5559
After:
# perf record -a -e intel_pt//u uname
Linux
[ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ]
[ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.868 MB perf.data ]
# perf script --no-itrace --show-switch-events | head
swapper 0 [005] 6450.567013: PERF_RECORD_SWITCH_CPU_WIDE OUT preempt next pid/tid: 7179/7181
perf 7181 [005] 6450.567014: PERF_RECORD_SWITCH_CPU_WIDE IN prev pid/tid: 0/0
perf 7181 [005] 6450.567028: PERF_RECORD_SWITCH_CPU_WIDE OUT next pid/tid: 0/0
swapper 0 [005] 6450.567029: PERF_RECORD_SWITCH_CPU_WIDE IN prev pid/tid: 7179/7181
swapper 0 [005] 6450.571699: PERF_RECORD_SWITCH_CPU_WIDE OUT preempt next pid/tid: 11/11
rcu_sched 11 [005] 6450.571700: PERF_RECORD_SWITCH_CPU_WIDE IN prev pid/tid: 0/0
rcu_sched 11 [005] 6450.571702: PERF_RECORD_SWITCH_CPU_WIDE OUT next pid/tid: 0/0
swapper 0 [005] 6450.571703: PERF_RECORD_SWITCH_CPU_WIDE IN prev pid/tid: 11/11
swapper 0 [005] 6450.579703: PERF_RECORD_SWITCH_CPU_WIDE OUT preempt next pid/tid: 11/11
rcu_sched 11 [005] 6450.579704: PERF_RECORD_SWITCH_CPU_WIDE IN prev pid/tid: 0/0
Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Link: http://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200629091955.17090-3-adrian.hunter@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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