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perf metric: Don't compute unused events
authorIan Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Thu, 23 Sep 2021 07:46:15 +0000 (00:46 -0700)
committerArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Wed, 29 Sep 2021 16:51:04 +0000 (13:51 -0300)
commita8e4e880834b5dc53ff6b4cfc9f4268e61399976
treedd8e8e8d11a45a0e9558dc865cd69a21ca599945
parent970f7afe55ee3e9d6d1c73cd138c5f023bb0beba
perf metric: Don't compute unused events

For a metric like:

  EVENT1 if #smt_on else EVENT2

currently EVENT1 and EVENT2 will be measured and then when the metric is
reported EVENT1 or EVENT2 will be printed depending on the value from
smt_on() during the expr parsing. Computing both events is unnecessary and
can lead to multiplexing as discussed in this thread:

  https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20201110100346.2527031-1-irogers@google.com/

If the input is constant to certain operators like:

 IDS1 if CONST else IDS2

then the result will be either IDS1 or IDS2 depending on CONST (which
may be evaluated from an entire expression), and so IDS1 or IDS2 may
be discarded avoiding events from being programmed.

Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Tested-by: John Garry <john.garry@huawei.com>
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Jin Yao <yao.jin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Kajol Jain <kjain@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Paul Clarke <pc@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Sandeep Dasgupta <sdasgup@google.com>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210923074616.674826-13-irogers@google.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
tools/perf/tests/expr.c
tools/perf/util/expr.y