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[PATCH v19 18/19] perf, tools, pmu-events: Fix fixed counters on Intel

From: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <hidden>
Date: 2015-12-01 02:57:47
Also in: lkml
Subsystem: performance events subsystem, the rest · Maintainers: Peter Zijlstra, Ingo Molnar, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo, Namhyung Kim, Linus Torvalds

From: Andi Kleen <redacted>

The JSON event lists use a different encoding for fixed counters
than perf for instructions and cycles (ref-cycles is ok)

This lead to some common events like inst_retired.any
or cpu_clk_unhalted.thread not counting, when specified with their
JSON name.

Special case these events in the jevents conversion process.
I prefer to not touch the JSON files for this, as it's intended
that standard JSON files can be just dropped into the perf
build without changes.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <redacted>
Signed-off-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <redacted>
[Fix minor compile error]
---
 tools/perf/pmu-events/jevents.c | 27 +++++++++++++++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 25 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/tools/perf/pmu-events/jevents.c b/tools/perf/pmu-events/jevents.c
index b4e3f01..5a28baf 100644
--- a/tools/perf/pmu-events/jevents.c
+++ b/tools/perf/pmu-events/jevents.c
@@ -237,6 +237,29 @@ static void print_events_table_suffix(FILE *outfp)
 	fprintf(outfp, "};\n");
 }
 
+static struct fixed {
+	const char *name;
+	const char *event;
+} fixed[] = {
+	{ "inst_retired.any", "event=0xc0" },
+	{ "cpu_clk_unhalted.thread", "event=0x3c" },
+	{ "cpu_clk_unhalted.thread_any", "event=0x3c,any=1" },
+	{ NULL, NULL},
+};
+
+/*
+ * Handle different fixed counter encodings between JSON and perf.
+ */
+static char *real_event(const char *name, char *event)
+{
+	int i;
+
+	for (i = 0; fixed[i].name; i++)
+		if (!strcasecmp(name, fixed[i].name))
+			return (char *)fixed[i].event;
+	return event;
+}
+
 /* Call func with each event in the json file */
 int json_events(const char *fn,
 	  int (*func)(void *data, char *name, char *event, char *desc,
@@ -325,8 +348,8 @@ int json_events(const char *fn,
 		if (msr != NULL)
 			addfield(map, &event, ",", msr->pname, msrval);
 		fixname(name);
-
-		err = func(data, name, event, desc, long_desc, topic);
+		err = func(data, name, real_event(name, event), desc,
+			   long_desc, topic);
 		free(event);
 		free(desc);
 		free(name);
-- 
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