Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 24 Jan 2021 00:14:52 +0100 | From | Jiri Olsa <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v2] perf stat: Append to default list if use -e +event |
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On Thu, Jan 21, 2021 at 10:02:25AM -0300, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote: > Em Thu, Jan 21, 2021 at 02:08:52PM +0800, Jin, Yao escreveu: > > Hi Arnaldo, > > > > On 1/21/2021 8:03 AM, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote: > > > Em Wed, Jan 20, 2021 at 10:25:53PM +0100, Jiri Olsa escreveu: > > > > On Mon, Jan 18, 2021 at 12:54:37PM +0800, Jin, Yao wrote: > > > > > root@kbl-ppc:# ./perf stat -e +power/energy-pkg/ -a -- sleep 1 > > > > > > > > Performance counter stats for 'system wide': > > > > > > > > 2.02 Joules +power/energy-pkg/ > > > > > > > > 1.000859434 seconds time elapsed > > > > > > > > The '+' prefix is printed. So I finally decide not to remove the '+' prefix > > > > > in order to keep original behavior. > > > > hm, originaly there's no purpose for the '+', right? > > > > it seems it's more like bug then anything else > > > > you added function to the '+' to add default events to specified event, > > > > which I think is good idea, but I don't think we should display the > > > > extra '+' in output > > > > > > The value would be to stress that that is an event added to the ones > > > without the + prefix, i.e. the default ones. > > > > > > But by having the command line copied over and the added events at the > > > first lines we should have that abundantly clear. > > > > > > Also we won't print removed events (using -), is that available already? > > > > > > > Sorry, the '-' support is not available in this patch. Can I do the patch > > for '+' first and then do a follow up patch for '-' at next step? > > Yeah, it can be done afterwards, to be symmetric. > > > > Nope: > > > > > > [root@quaco ~]# perf stat -e -cycles sleep > > > event syntax error: '-cycles' > > > \___ parser error > > > Run 'perf list' for a list of valid events > > > > > > Usage: perf stat [<options>] [<command>] > > > > > > -e, --event <event> event selector. use 'perf list' to list available events > > > So if we just want to append the default list, we only need to set > > detailed_run=1, then ideally perf-stat will print the default list. > > > But for now, there are no task-clock, context-switches, cpu-migrations, > > page-faults, instructions, branches and branch-misses displayed. > > > root@kbl-ppc:~# ./perf stat -e cycles -d -a -- sleep 1 > > > > Performance counter stats for 'system wide': > > > > 124,178,207 cycles (80.02%) > > 6,444,490 L1-dcache-loads (80.01%) > > 1,043,169 L1-dcache-load-misses # 16.19% of all L1-dcache accesses (80.02%) > > 564,474 LLC-loads (80.02%) > > 49,262 LLC-load-misses # 8.73% of all LL-cache accesses (79.92%) > > > > 1.001614947 seconds time elapsed > > > > Do we still need the '+' prefix to add the specified event on top of default > > list? It looks current syntax should already support that feature, but just > > need to fix some issues. > > I think we can do away with that '+' when showing the added events and > its counts.
I was thinking of people parsing the stat output (this is probably also in CSV output, right?) having the extra '+' prrefix could cause issues
jirka
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