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SubjectRe: [PATCH V7 07/14] perf/core: Add a new PERF_EV_CAP_COEXIST event capability
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On 7/24/2020 9:54 AM, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 24, 2020 at 09:43:44AM -0400, Liang, Kan wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 7/24/2020 7:46 AM, peterz@infradead.org wrote:
>>> On Fri, Jul 24, 2020 at 12:55:43PM +0200, peterz@infradead.org wrote:
>>>>> + event_sched_out(event, cpuctx, ctx);
>>>>> + perf_event_set_state(event, PERF_EVENT_STATE_ERROR);
>>>>> +}
>>>>
>>>> Ah, so the problem here is that ERROR is actually recoverable using
>>>> IOC_ENABLE. We don't want that either. Let me try and figure out of EXIT
>>>> would work.
>>>
>>> EXIT is difficult too.. Also, that COEXIST thing hurt my brian, can't we
>>> do a simpler SIBLING thing that simply requires the event to be a group
>>> sibling?
>>>
>>> The consequence is that SLOTS must be the leader, is that really a
>>> problem? You keep providing the {cycles, slots, metric-things} example,
>>> but afaict {slots, metric-thing, cycles} should work just fine too.
>>> PERF_SAMPLE_READ with PERF_FORMAT_GROUP doesn't need to the the leader.
>>
>> I'm not sure I get your point.
>> For the PERF_SAMPLE_READ with PERF_FORMAT_GROUP case, other events can be
>> the leader, e.g., {cycles, slots, metric-things}:S.
>> In this case, the SLOTS event is not a leader. I don't think we can assume
>> that the SLOTS event must be the leader.
>
> You can have a sibling event with SAMPLE_READ and FORMAT_GROUP just
> fine. The sampling event doesn't need to be the leader.
>

There will be a problem for the current perf tool, which assumes that
the leader event is the sampling event.

I will check how can we specially handle it in the perf tool.

Thanks,
Kan

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