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SubjectRe: [RFC PATCH 1/1] perf arm64: Implement --topdown with metrics
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Hi Andrew,

>> const struct pmu_event *metricgroup__find_metric(const char *metric,
>> const struct pmu_events_map *map);
>> int metricgroup__parse_groups_test(struct evlist *evlist,
>> diff --git a/tools/perf/util/topdown.c b/tools/perf/util/topdown.c
>> index 1081b20f9891..57c0c5f2c6bd 100644
>> --- a/tools/perf/util/topdown.c
>> +++ b/tools/perf/util/topdown.c
>> @@ -56,3 +56,9 @@ __weak bool arch_topdown_sample_read(struct evsel *leader __maybe_unused)
>> {
>> return false;
>> }
>> +
>> +__weak bool arch_topdown_use_json_metrics(void)
>> +{

AFAICS, only x86 supports topdown today and that is because they have
special kernel topdown events exposed for the kernel CPU PMU driver. So
other architectures - not only arm - would need rely on metricgroups for
topdown support. So let's make this generic for all archs.

> I like this extension! I've ranted in the past about weak symbols
> breaking with archives due to lazy loading [1]. In this case
> tools/perf/arch/arm64/util/topdown.c has no other symbols within it
> and so the weak symbol has an extra chance of being linked
> incorrectly. We could add a new command line of --topdown-json to
> avoid this, but there seems little difference in doing this over just
> doing '-M TopDownL1'.


> Is it possible to use the json metric approach
> for when the CPU version fails?

I think that's a good idea.

In addition we could also add a --topdown arg to force using JSON
metricgroups.

Did you actually test this patch? I have something experimental working
from some time ago, and it was more complicated than this. I need to
check the code again...

Thanks,
John

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