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perf test: Skip metrics w/o event name in stat STD output linter
authorNamhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Fri, 23 Jun 2023 23:01:39 +0000 (16:01 -0700)
committerNamhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Sat, 24 Jun 2023 04:35:45 +0000 (21:35 -0700)
commit4d60e83dfcee794213878155463d8f7353a80864
tree7130ded002db8cc20672bce76f5ec1ce324cceaf
parent8d3df7c39b10d4ff24a605f7b80bb6fefb990798
perf test: Skip metrics w/o event name in stat STD output linter

This test checks if the output of perf stat to match event names and
metrics.  So it wants the output lines to have both event name and
metric.  Otherwise it should skip the line.

On AMD machines, the instruction event has two metrics and they are printed
in separate lines.  It makes the line without event name like below:

  # perf stat -a sleep 1

   Performance counter stats for 'system wide':

           64,383.34 msec cpu-clock                  #   64.048 CPUs utilized
              14,526      context-switches           #  225.617 /sec
                 112      cpu-migrations             #    1.740 /sec
                 190      page-faults                #    2.951 /sec
         807,558,652      cycles                     #    0.013 GHz                         (83.30%)
          69,809,799      stalled-cycles-frontend    #    8.64% frontend cycles idle        (83.30%)
         196,983,266      stalled-cycles-backend     #   24.39% backend cycles idle         (83.30%)
         424,876,008      instructions               #    0.53  insn per cycle
 (here) --->                                  #    0.46  stalled cycles per insn     (83.30%)
          97,788,321      branches                   #    1.519 M/sec                       (83.34%)
           4,147,377      branch-misses              #    4.24% of all branches             (83.46%)

         1.005241409 seconds time elapsed

Also modern Intel machines have TopDown metrics which also don't have
event names.

  # perf stat -a sleep 1

   Performance counter stats for 'system wide':

            8,015.39 msec cpu-clock                        #    7.996 CPUs utilized
               5,823      context-switches                 #  726.477 /sec
                 189      cpu-migrations                   #   23.580 /sec
                 139      page-faults                      #   17.342 /sec
         435,139,308      cycles                           #    0.054 GHz
         193,891,345      instructions                     #    0.45  insn per cycle
          42,773,028      branches                         #    5.336 M/sec
           2,298,113      branch-misses                    #    5.37% of all branches
                          TopdownL1                 #     25.5 %  tma_backend_bound
              /-->                                  #      7.9 %  tma_bad_speculation
    (here) --+                                      #     55.7 %  tma_frontend_bound
              \-->                                  #     10.9 %  tma_retiring

         1.002395924 seconds time elapsed

There is a check to skip TopdownL1 and TopdownL2 specifically but it
does not cover every affected lines.

So there is another check to skip the line if it has nothing on the left
side of # sign.  Well.. it seems ok but that's not enough too.

When aggregation mode (like --per-socket or --per-thread) is used, it
adds some prefix (e.g. CPU socket, task name and PID) in the output
line.  So the test code ignores them to normalize result.

A problem can happen for per-thread mode when task name contains one or
more spaces.  It'd only ignore the first part of the task name, and it
thinks there's something more in the line so it would not skip.

  # perf stat -a --perf-thread sleep 1
  ...
            perf-21276                  #     70.2 %  tma_backend_bound
            perf-21276                  #      3.9 %  tma_bad_speculation
            perf-21276                  #     10.5 %  tma_frontend_bound
            perf-21276                  #     15.3 %  tma_retiring
    ^^^^^^^^^^
    (ignored)

         my task-21328                  #     70.2 %  tma_backend_bound
         my task-21328                  #      3.9 %  tma_bad_speculation
         my task-21328                  #     10.5 %  tma_frontend_bound
         my task-21328                  #     15.3 %  tma_retiring
 ^^
     (ignored)

So I think it should look at the metric names instead.  Add skip_metric
to hold the list of names to skip.  It would contain 'stalled cycles per
insn' and metrics started by 'tma_'.

Fixes: 99a04a48f225 ("perf test: Add test case for the standard 'perf stat' output")
Acked-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Cc: Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230623230139.985594-2-namhyung@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
tools/perf/tests/shell/stat+std_output.sh