[PATCH v5 5/5] perf arm-spe: Don't wait for PERF_RECORD_EXIT event

Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo acme at kernel.org
Thu Jul 1 10:03:16 PDT 2021


Em Mon, Jun 28, 2021 at 08:12:17PM +0800, Leo Yan escreveu:
> On Fri, Jun 25, 2021 at 02:25:15PM +0100, James Clark wrote:
> > For the whole set:
> > Reviewed-by: James Clark <james.clark at arm.com>
> > Tested-by: James Clark <james.clark at arm.com>
 
> > I see a big improvement in decoding involving multiple processes because the timestamps are now

> > 
> > For example perf-exec samples are visible right before the exec is done, and on an
> > application that forks, samples are visible from all processes. For example:

> >    perf record -e arm_spe// -- bash -c "stress -c 1"
> >    perf script

> >    perf-exec  4502 [003] 259755.050409:          1    l1d-access:  ffff80001014b840 sched_clock+0x40 ([kernel.kallsyms])
> >    perf-exec  4502 [003] 259755.050409:          1    tlb-access:  ffff80001014b840 sched_clock+0x40 ([kernel.kallsyms])
> >    perf-exec  4502 [003] 259755.050409:          1        memory:  ffff80001014b840 sched_clock+0x40 ([kernel.kallsyms])
> >    perf-exec  4502 [003] 259755.050411:          1    tlb-access:  ffff800010120fb8 __rcu_read_lock+0x0 ([kernel.kallsyms])
> >    bash  4502 [003] 259755.050411:          1   branch-miss:  ffff8000105b2a40 memcpy+0x80 ([kernel.kallsyms])
> >    bash  4502 [003] 259755.050411:          1    tlb-access:                 0 [unknown] ([unknown])
> >    ...
> >    stress  4502 [003] 259755.051468:          1    l1d-access:  ffff800010259a24 __vma_adjust+0x1f4 ([kernel.kallsyms])
> >    stress  4502 [003] 259755.051468:          1    tlb-access:  ffff800010259a24 __vma_adjust+0x1f4 ([kernel.kallsyms])
> >    stress  4502 [003] 259755.051468:          1        memory:  ffff800010259a24 __vma_adjust+0x1f4 ([kernel.kallsyms])

> > Previously samples were only attributed to 'stress', which was obviously wrong.
> 
> Thanks a lot for the review and testing, James!
> 
> Hi Arnaldo, I confirmed this patch set can be cleanly applied on
> the latest acme/perf/core branch, so could you pick up this patch
> set?

Applied, thanks, please let me know if there is still something
outstanding,

- Arnaldo



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