Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 23 Apr 2020 12:11:20 +0200 | From | Jiri Olsa <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 2/8] perf metrics: fix parse errors in cascade lake metrics |
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On Thu, Apr 23, 2020 at 12:10:36PM +0200, Jiri Olsa wrote: > On Thu, Apr 23, 2020 at 03:51:18PM +0800, Jin, Yao wrote: > > Hi Ian, > > > > On 4/23/2020 2:09 PM, Ian Rogers wrote: > > > On Wed, Apr 22, 2020 at 10:54 PM Jin, Yao <yao.jin@linux.intel.com> wrote: > > > > > > > > Hi Jiri, > > > > > > > > Bisected to this commit which introduced the regression. > > > > > > > > 26226a97724d ("perf expr: Move expr lexer to flex") > > > > > > > > Would you like to look at that? > > > > > > Hi Jin, > > > > > > that commit breaks parsing of things like ','. See fixes in this patch > > > set such as: > > > https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200422220430.254014-5-irogers@google.com/ > > > Fixing the lex issues then exposes other bugs that need to be > > > corrected in the json. I've added Fixes to the commit message of: > > > https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200422220430.254014-3-irogers@google.com/ > > > https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200422220430.254014-4-irogers@google.com/ > > > and would be glad of a review. If we can land: > > > https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200422220430.254014-12-irogers@google.com/ > > > then expr as the source of parse errors can go away :-) The next > > > problem is the parse events code, but some of that logic is dependent > > > on the machine it is running on. It'd be good to add a test that > > > parsed events code can handle the events in metrics too, filtering out > > > things like duration_time that are special to metrics. > > > > > > Thanks, > > > Ian > > > > > > > Only with the fix > > "https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200422220430.254014-5-irogers@google.com/" > > (without other json modifications), the issue was still there. > > > > localhost:~ # perf stat -M DRAM_Read_Latency > > event syntax error: > > '../event=0x36,,umask=0x21/,cha/event=0x35,cha_0/event=0x0/}:W,duration_time' > > \___ parser error > > > > Usage: perf stat [<options>] [<command>] > > > > -M, --metrics <metric/metric group list> > > monitor specified metrics or metric groups > > (separated by ,) > > hum, I don't have that metric, is there another example of broken metric? > > [jolsa@krava perf]$ sudo ./perf stat -M DRAM_Read_Latency > Cannot find metric or group `DRAM_Read_Latency' > > > > > So you added other commits which changed the json to let the parse work. But > > I don't know if we have to do with this way because it should be a > > regression issue. > > > > In my opinion, we'd better fix the issue in 26226a97724d ("perf expr: Move > > expr lexer to flex") and try not to change the json if possible. > > yea, that change definitely had a potential of breaking things ;-) > but it should be easy to fix them > > I'll go through the v3 of the patchset
ok, there's v2 now ;-)
jirka
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