perf test: Skip metrics w/o event name in stat STD output linter
This test checks if the output of perf stat to match event names and metrics. So it wants the output lines to have both event name and metric. Otherwise it should skip the line. On AMD machines, the instruction event has two metrics and they are printed in separate lines. It makes the line without event name like below: # perf stat -a sleep 1 Performance counter stats for 'system wide': 64,383.34 msec cpu-clock # 64.048 CPUs utilized 14,526 context-switches # 225.617 /sec 112 cpu-migrations # 1.740 /sec 190 page-faults # 2.951 /sec 807,558,652 cycles # 0.013 GHz (83.30%) 69,809,799 stalled-cycles-frontend # 8.64% frontend cycles idle (83.30%) 196,983,266 stalled-cycles-backend # 24.39% backend cycles idle (83.30%) 424,876,008 instructions # 0.53 insn per cycle (here) ---> # 0.46 stalled cycles per insn (83.30%) 97,788,321 branches # 1.519 M/sec (83.34%) 4,147,377 branch-misses # 4.24% of all branches (83.46%) 1.005241409 seconds time elapsed Also modern Intel machines have TopDown metrics which also don't have event names. # perf stat -a sleep 1 Performance counter stats for 'system wide': 8,015.39 msec cpu-clock # 7.996 CPUs utilized 5,823 context-switches # 726.477 /sec 189 cpu-migrations # 23.580 /sec 139 page-faults # 17.342 /sec 435,139,308 cycles # 0.054 GHz 193,891,345 instructions # 0.45 insn per cycle 42,773,028 branches # 5.336 M/sec 2,298,113 branch-misses # 5.37% of all branches TopdownL1 # 25.5 % tma_backend_bound /--> # 7.9 % tma_bad_speculation (here) --+ # 55.7 % tma_frontend_bound \--> # 10.9 % tma_retiring 1.002395924 seconds time elapsed There is a check to skip TopdownL1 and TopdownL2 specifically but it does not cover every affected lines. So there is another check to skip the line if it has nothing on the left side of # sign. Well.. it seems ok but that's not enough too. When aggregation mode (like --per-socket or --per-thread) is used, it adds some prefix (e.g. CPU socket, task name and PID) in the output line. So the test code ignores them to normalize result. A problem can happen for per-thread mode when task name contains one or more spaces. It'd only ignore the first part of the task name, and it thinks there's something more in the line so it would not skip. # perf stat -a --perf-thread sleep 1 ... perf-21276 # 70.2 % tma_backend_bound perf-21276 # 3.9 % tma_bad_speculation perf-21276 # 10.5 % tma_frontend_bound perf-21276 # 15.3 % tma_retiring ^^^^^^^^^^ (ignored) my task-21328 # 70.2 % tma_backend_bound my task-21328 # 3.9 % tma_bad_speculation my task-21328 # 10.5 % tma_frontend_bound my task-21328 # 15.3 % tma_retiring ^^ (ignored) So I think it should look at the metric names instead. Add skip_metric to hold the list of names to skip. It would contain 'stalled cycles per insn' and metrics started by 'tma_'. Fixes: 99a04a48 ("perf test: Add test case for the standard 'perf stat' output") Acked-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com> Cc: Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230623230139.985594-2-namhyung@kernel.orgSigned-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
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