perf pmu: Treat the msr pmu as software
authorIan Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Wed, 24 Jan 2024 23:42:00 +0000 (15:42 -0800)
committerNamhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Thu, 25 Jan 2024 23:22:59 +0000 (15:22 -0800)
The msr PMU is a software one, meaning msr events may be grouped
with events in a hardware context. As the msr PMU isn't marked as a
software PMU by perf_pmu__is_software, groups with the msr PMU in
are broken and the msr events placed in a different group. This
may lead to multiplexing errors where a hardware event isn't
counted while the msr event, such as tsc, is. Fix all of this by
marking the msr PMU as software, which agrees with the driver.

Before:
```
$ perf stat -e '{slots,tsc}' -a true
WARNING: events were regrouped to match PMUs

 Performance counter stats for 'system wide':

         1,750,335      slots
         4,243,557      tsc

       0.001456717 seconds time elapsed
```

After:
```
$ perf stat -e '{slots,tsc}' -a true
 Performance counter stats for 'system wide':

        12,526,380      slots
         3,415,163      tsc

       0.001488360 seconds time elapsed
```

Fixes: 251aa040244a ("perf parse-events: Wildcard most "numeric" events")
Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com>
Cc: James Clark <james.clark@arm.com>
Cc: Caleb Biggers <caleb.biggers@intel.com>
Cc: Edward Baker <edward.baker@intel.com>
Cc: Perry Taylor <perry.taylor@intel.com>
Cc: Samantha Alt <samantha.alt@intel.com>
Cc: Weilin Wang <weilin.wang@intel.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240124234200.1510417-1-irogers@google.com
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
tools/perf/util/pmu.c

index 3d4373b8ab632814a8f0c0c588ca92a83745e0da..355f813f960d64cca6f4d3dcc0e7d4ef88294b33 100644 (file)
@@ -1762,6 +1762,12 @@ bool pmu__name_match(const struct perf_pmu *pmu, const char *pmu_name)
 
 bool perf_pmu__is_software(const struct perf_pmu *pmu)
 {
+       const char *known_sw_pmus[] = {
+               "kprobe",
+               "msr",
+               "uprobe",
+       };
+
        if (pmu->is_core || pmu->is_uncore || pmu->auxtrace)
                return false;
        switch (pmu->type) {
@@ -1773,7 +1779,11 @@ bool perf_pmu__is_software(const struct perf_pmu *pmu)
        case PERF_TYPE_BREAKPOINT:      return true;
        default: break;
        }
-       return !strcmp(pmu->name, "kprobe") || !strcmp(pmu->name, "uprobe");
+       for (size_t i = 0; i < ARRAY_SIZE(known_sw_pmus); i++) {
+               if (!strcmp(pmu->name, known_sw_pmus[i]))
+                       return true;
+       }
+       return false;
 }
 
 FILE *perf_pmu__open_file(const struct perf_pmu *pmu, const char *name)