On Mon, Jul 24, 2017 at 04:40:15PM -0700, Andi Kleen wrote:
> From: Andi Kleen <a...@linux.intel.com>
>
> Some of the metrics formulas (like GFLOPs) need to know how long
> the measurement period is. Support an internal event called duration_time,
> which
> reports time in second. It maps to the dummy event, but is
> special cased for statistics to report the walltime duration.
>
> So far it is not printed, but only used internally for metrics.
>
> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <a...@linux.intel.com>
> ---
> tools/perf/util/parse-events.l | 1 +
> tools/perf/util/stat-shadow.c | 17 +++++++++++++----
> 2 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/tools/perf/util/parse-events.l b/tools/perf/util/parse-events.l
> index 07ee5bb3a8b0..f7bc74f8a615 100644
> --- a/tools/perf/util/parse-events.l
> +++ b/tools/perf/util/parse-events.l
> @@ -277,6 +277,7 @@ cpu-migrations|migrations { return
> sym(yyscanner, PERF_TYPE_SOFTWARE, PERF_COU
> alignment-faults { return sym(yyscanner,
> PERF_TYPE_SOFTWARE, PERF_COUNT_SW_ALIGNMENT_FAULTS); }
> emulation-faults { return sym(yyscanner,
> PERF_TYPE_SOFTWARE, PERF_COUNT_SW_EMULATION_FAULTS); }
> dummy { return sym(yyscanner,
> PERF_TYPE_SOFTWARE, PERF_COUNT_SW_DUMMY); }
> +duration_time { return sym(yyscanner,
> PERF_TYPE_SOFTWARE, PERF_COUNT_SW_DUMMY); }
not ideal to actualy create an kernel event for something we
need only access in userspace, but I could live with that..
> bpf-output { return sym(yyscanner,
> PERF_TYPE_SOFTWARE, PERF_COUNT_SW_BPF_OUTPUT); }
>
> /*
> diff --git a/tools/perf/util/stat-shadow.c b/tools/perf/util/stat-shadow.c
> index 122f37b38a65..34ae2960730b 100644
> --- a/tools/perf/util/stat-shadow.c
> +++ b/tools/perf/util/stat-shadow.c
> @@ -641,11 +641,20 @@ static void generic_metric(const char *metric_expr,
> expr__add_id(&pctx, name, avg);
> for (i = 0; metric_events[i]; i++) {
> struct saved_value *v;
> + struct stats *stats;
> + double scale;
>
> - v = saved_value_lookup(metric_events[i], cpu, false);
> - if (!v)
> - break;
> - expr__add_id(&pctx, metric_events[i]->name,
> avg_stats(&v->stats));
> + if (!strcmp(metric_events[i]->name, "duration_time")) {
> + stats = &walltime_nsecs_stats;
> + scale = 1e-9;
however this will enable the event value only for metric processing
and following stat command will return 0:
[jolsa@krava perf]$ ./perf stat -e duration_time kill
kill: not enough arguments
Performance counter stats for 'kill':
0 duration_time:u
0.006556409 seconds time elapsed
perhaps we could substitute the value when we read the event
also walltime_nsecs_stats is only updated at the end of the
workload, so this won't work for interval.. but not sure this
is an issue though
jirka
