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SubjectRe: [perf metricgroup] fcc9c5243c: perf-sanity-tests.Parse_and_process_metrics.fail
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On 19/10/2020 00:30, Ian Rogers wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 18, 2020 at 1:51 AM kernel test robot <rong.a.chen@intel.com> wrote:
>>
>> Greeting,
>>
>> FYI, we noticed the following commit (built with gcc-9):
>>
>> commit: fcc9c5243c478f104014daf4d23db86098d2aef0 ("perf metricgroup: Hack a fix for aliases when covering multiple PMUs")
>> url: https://github.com/0day-ci/linux/commits/John-Garry/perf-pmu-events-Support-event-aliasing-for-system-PMUs/20201008-182049
>>
>>
>> in testcase: perf-sanity-tests
>> version: perf-x86_64-c85fb28b6f99-1_20201008
>> with following parameters:
>>
>> perf_compiler: gcc
>> ucode: 0xdc
>>
>>
>>
>> on test machine: 4 threads Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-6500 CPU @ 3.20GHz with 32G memory
>>
>> caused below changes (please refer to attached dmesg/kmsg for entire log/backtrace):
>
> I believe this is a Skylake and there is a known bug in the Skylake
> metric DRAM_Parallel_Reads as described here:
> https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAP-5=fXejVaQa9qfW66cY77qB962+jbe8tT5bsLoOOcFmODnWQ@mail.gmail.com/
> Fixing the bug needs more knowledge than what is available in manuals.
> Hopefully Intel can take a look.
>
> Thanks,
> Ian

So this named patch ("perf metricgroup: Hack a fix for aliases...") is
breaking test #67 on my machine also, which is a broadwell.

I will have a look, but I was hoping that Ian would have a proper fix
for this on top of ("perf metricgroup: Fix uncore metric expressions"),
which now looks to be merged.

Thanks!

>
>>
>>
>> If you fix the issue, kindly add following tag
>> Reported-by: kernel test robot <rong.a.chen@intel.com>
>>
>>
>> 2020-10-16 19:31:52 sudo /usr/src/perf_selftests-x86_64-rhel-8.3-fcc9c5243c478f104014daf4d23db86098d2aef0/tools/perf/perf test 67
>> 67: Parse and process metrics : FAILED!
>> 2020-10-16 19:31:52 sudo /usr/src/perf_selftests-x86_64-rhel-8.3-fcc9c5243c478f104014daf4d23db86098d2aef0/tools/perf/perf test 68
>> 68: x86 rdpmc : Ok
>> 2020-10-16 19:31:52 sudo /usr/src/perf_selftests-x86_64-rhel-8.3-fcc9c5243c478f104014daf4d23db86098d2aef0/tools/perf/perf test 69
>> 69: Convert perf time to TSC : Ok
>> 2020-10-16 19:31:52 sudo /usr/src/perf_selftests-x86_64-rhel-8.3-fcc9c5243c478f104014daf4d23db86098d2aef0/tools/perf/perf test 70
>> 70: DWARF unwind : Ok
>> 2020-10-16 19:31:52 sudo /usr/src/perf_selftests-x86_64-rhel-8.3-fcc9c5243c478f104014daf4d23db86098d2aef0/tools/perf/perf test 71
>> 71: x86 instruction decoder - new instructions : Ok
>> 2020-10-16 19:31:52 sudo /usr/src/perf_selftests-x86_64-rhel-8.3-fcc9c5243c478f104014daf4d23db86098d2aef0/tools/perf/perf test 72
>> 72: Intel PT packet decoder : Ok
>> 2020-10-16 19:31:52 sudo /usr/src/perf_selftests-x86_64-rhel-8.3-fcc9c5243c478f104014daf4d23db86098d2aef0/tools/perf/perf test 73
>> 73: x86 bp modify : Ok
>> 2020-10-16 19:31:53 sudo /usr/src/perf_selftests-x86_64-rhel-8.3-fcc9c5243c478f104014daf4d23db86098d2aef0/tools/perf/perf test 74
>> 74: probe libc's inet_pton & backtrace it with ping : Ok
>> 2020-10-16 19:31:54 sudo /usr/src/perf_selftests-x86_64-rhel-8.3-fcc9c5243c478f104014daf4d23db86098d2aef0/tools/perf/perf test 75
>> 75: Zstd perf.data compression/decompression : Ok
>>
>>
>>
>> To reproduce:
>>
>> git clone https://github.com/intel/lkp-tests.git
>> cd lkp-tests
>> bin/lkp install job.yaml # job file is attached in this email
>> bin/lkp run job.yaml
>>
>>
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Rong Chen
>>
> .
>

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