On Fri, Feb 02, 2018 at 10:45:46AM -0800, Stephane Eranian wrote: > Jiri, > > On Thu, Feb 1, 2018 at 12:38 AM, Jiri Olsa <jo...@kernel.org> wrote: > > Stephane reported that we don't set properly PERIOD > > sample type for events with period term defined. > > > > Before: > > $ perf record -e cpu/cpu-cycles,period=1000/u ls > > $ perf evlist -v > > cpu/cpu-cycles,period=1000/u: ... sample_type: IP|TID|TIME|PERIOD, ... > > > > After: > > $ perf record -e cpu/cpu-cycles,period=1000/u ls > > $ perf evlist -v > > cpu/cpu-cycles,period=1000/u: ... sample_type: IP|TID|TIME, ... > > > > Setting PERIOD sample type based on period term setup. > > > there is still one problem remaining here. It has to do with the handling > of cycles:pp or :p or :ppp. Suppose I want to set a period for it while I am > also sampling on other events: Something like: > > $ perf record -e > cycles:pp,instructions,cpu/event=0xd0,umaks=0x81,period=100000/ ..... > > I want to set the period for cycles:pp, but not for instructions. I > cannot use -c because > it would also force a period on instructions. I could use the raw hw > raw event code for cycles:pp. > But that does not work because recent kernels prevent use of hw > filters on events programmed > for PEBS, e.g., cpu/event=0xc2,umask=0x1,cmask=16,inv/pp is rejected. > PEBS does not support filters. > It works in the case of cycles:pp simply by the nature on the > underlying event and the stalls. > > To get precise cycles, the only event syntax you can use is cycles:pp, > but then you cannot specify > an event-specific period. This needs to be fixed as well.
you can use p modifier behind like: cpu/.../pp > > I'd like to be able to say: > > $ perf record -e > cycles:pp:period=10000001,cpu/event=0xd0,umaks=0x81,period=100000/ > > Or something equivalent. and you can specify terms for hw events like 'cycles' [jolsa@krava perf]$ sudo ./perf record -e 'cycles/period=10000001/pp,cpu/event=0xd0,umask=0x81,period=100000/' ^C[ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ] [ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.579 MB perf.data (722 samples) ] [jolsa@krava perf]$ ./perf evlist -v cycles/period=10000001/pp: size: 112, { sample_period, sample_freq }: 10000001, sample_type: IP|TID|TIME|ID|CPU, read_format: ID, disabled: 1, inherit: 1, mmap: 1, comm: 1, task: 1, precise_ip: 2, sample_id_all: 1, exclude_guest: 1, mmap2: 1, comm_exec: 1 cpu/event=0xd0,umask=0x81,period=100000/: type: 4, size: 112, config: 0x81d0, { sample_period, sample_freq }: 100000, sample_type: IP|TID|TIME|ID|CPU, read_format: ID, disabled: 1, inherit: 1, sample_id_all: 1, exclude_guest: 1 jirka