[PATCH] perf topdown: Don't require config1==0 for a slots event
From: Zide Chen <hidden>
Date: 2026-09-17 18:20:43
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Peter Zijlstra, Ingo Molnar, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo, Namhyung Kim, Linus Torvalds
arch_is_topdown_slots() requires config1 == 0, so it misidentified
"cpu/slots,metrics_clear=1/" as not being the slots event, and an
additional slots event gets inserted, which fails event scheduling
since the group now needs two fixed counter 3.
$ perf stat -e "{cpu/slots,metrics_clear=1/,cpu/topdown-retiring/}" -- sleep 1
WARNING: events were regrouped to match PMUs
<not counted> slots
<not supported> cpu/slots,metrics_clear=1/
<not counted> cpu/topdown-retiring/
Drop the config1 == 0 check from arch_is_topdown_slots(). This is
safe: config1 has no bearing on the event's identifying config value
(TOPDOWN_SLOTS, 0x0400).
The attr.type == PERF_TYPE_RAW check is what actually matters: only the
core PMU is registered with PERF_TYPE_RAW, and on x86, 0x400 is
guaranteed to be slots event on core CPU.
arch_is_topdown_metrics() keeps its own config1 == 0 check, since
genuine metrics events have no "metrics_clear" and config1 remains 0.
Add a test verifying that an explicit "slots,metrics_clear=1" event in
a group does not trigger an extra slots event injection.
Fixes: 5b546de9cc17 ("perf topdown: Use attribute to see an event is a topdown metic or slots")
Signed-off-by: Zide Chen <redacted>
Reviewed-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Dapeng Mi <redacted>
---
v2: include stdio.h and string.h for musl compatibility.
---
tools/perf/arch/x86/tests/topdown.c | 30 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
tools/perf/arch/x86/util/topdown.c | 3 +--
2 files changed, 31 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/tools/perf/arch/x86/tests/topdown.c b/tools/perf/arch/x86/tests/topdown.c
index 2b6f47ce4932..520075329c37 100644
--- a/tools/perf/arch/x86/tests/topdown.c
+++ b/tools/perf/arch/x86/tests/topdown.c@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@ // SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 #include <errno.h> +#include <stdio.h> +#include <string.h> #include "arch-tests.h" #include "../util/topdown.h" #include "debug.h"
@@ -229,10 +231,38 @@ static int test__x86_topdown_slots_injection(struct test_suite *test __maybe_unu return TEST_OK; } +/* + * An explicit "slots,metrics_clear=1" event is still the slots event and + * must not cause an extra slots event to be injected into the group. + */ +static int test__x86_topdown_metrics_clear(struct test_suite *test __maybe_unused, + int subtest __maybe_unused) +{ + struct perf_pmu *pmu; + char event_str[128]; + int ret; + + if (!topdown_sys_has_perf_metrics()) + return TEST_OK; + + pmu = perf_pmus__find_by_type(PERF_TYPE_RAW); + if (!pmu || !perf_pmu__has_format(pmu, "metrics_clear")) + return TEST_OK; + + snprintf(event_str, sizeof(event_str), + "{%s/slots,metrics_clear=1/,%s/topdown-retiring/}", + pmu->name, pmu->name); + ret = test_sort(event_str, 2, 1); + TEST_ASSERT_EQUAL("explicit metrics_clear slots event isn't duplicated", ret, TEST_OK); + + return TEST_OK; +} + static struct test_case x86_topdown_tests[] = { TEST_CASE("topdown events", x86_topdown), TEST_CASE("topdown sorting", x86_topdown_sorting), TEST_CASE("topdown slots injection", x86_topdown_slots_injection), + TEST_CASE("topdown metrics_clear no extra slots", x86_topdown_metrics_clear), { .name = NULL, } };
diff --git a/tools/perf/arch/x86/util/topdown.c b/tools/perf/arch/x86/util/topdown.c
index bafd285119d7..64bc64e335a2 100644
--- a/tools/perf/arch/x86/util/topdown.c
+++ b/tools/perf/arch/x86/util/topdown.c@@ -37,8 +37,7 @@ bool topdown_sys_has_perf_metrics(void) bool arch_is_topdown_slots(const struct evsel *evsel) { return evsel->core.attr.type == PERF_TYPE_RAW && - evsel->core.attr.config == TOPDOWN_SLOTS && - evsel->core.attr.config1 == 0; + evsel->core.attr.config == TOPDOWN_SLOTS; } bool arch_is_topdown_metrics(const struct evsel *evsel)
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