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authorStephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>2011-02-16 15:10:01 +0200
committerArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>2011-02-17 10:29:19 -0200
commitf0c55bcf4aa41b4b1dbee826513b1acb01bf65e1 (patch)
tree00ebfe5e00bf70a27f404c161c16b59ad1fcca62 /tools
parent4498062e72fd55b2a9a4ac1b44fab8cb44ad5367 (diff)
perf: make perf stat print user provided full event names
This patch changes the way perf stat prints event names at the end of a run. Until now, it was trying to reconstruct the event name from its encoding. The problem is that it would only print generic events without their modifiers (u, k, pp). This patch saves the event name as passed by the user in the evsel struct and uses it to print the final event name. This would also work in case perf is linked with a library (such as libpfm4) which provides full PMU event tables. $ perf stat -e cycles:u,cycles:k date Wed Feb 16 14:58:52 CET 2011 Performance counter stats for 'date': 568600 cycles:u 2779715 cycles:k 0.001908182 seconds time elapsed Cc: Arun Sharma <arun@sharma-home.net> Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@gmail.com> LPU-Reference: <4d5bdc64.98a1df0a.7aa3.06c2@mx.google.com> Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> [ committer note: Fixed a merge problem with 023695d "Add cgroup support" ] Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'tools')
-rw-r--r--tools/perf/util/evsel.c1
-rw-r--r--tools/perf/util/evsel.h7
-rw-r--r--tools/perf/util/parse-events.c10
3 files changed, 18 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/evsel.c b/tools/perf/util/evsel.c
index c974e08d07a..63cadaf3e20 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/evsel.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/evsel.c
@@ -86,6 +86,7 @@ void perf_evsel__delete(struct perf_evsel *evsel)
{
perf_evsel__exit(evsel);
close_cgroup(evsel->cgrp);
+ free(evsel->name);
free(evsel);
}
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/evsel.h b/tools/perf/util/evsel.h
index 1d3d5a3dbe6..f6fc8f651a2 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/evsel.h
+++ b/tools/perf/util/evsel.h
@@ -37,6 +37,12 @@ struct perf_sample_id {
struct perf_evsel *evsel;
};
+/** struct perf_evsel - event selector
+ *
+ * @name - Can be set to retain the original event name passed by the user,
+ * so that when showing results in tools such as 'perf stat', we
+ * show the name used, not some alias.
+ */
struct perf_evsel {
struct list_head node;
struct perf_event_attr attr;
@@ -45,6 +51,7 @@ struct perf_evsel {
struct xyarray *id;
struct perf_counts *counts;
int idx;
+ char *name;
void *priv;
struct cgroup_sel *cgrp;
};
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/parse-events.c b/tools/perf/util/parse-events.c
index cf082daa43e..80a3dd5ef57 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/parse-events.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/parse-events.c
@@ -268,6 +268,9 @@ const char *event_name(struct perf_evsel *evsel)
u64 config = evsel->attr.config;
int type = evsel->attr.type;
+ if (evsel->name)
+ return evsel->name;
+
return __event_name(type, config);
}
@@ -782,8 +785,10 @@ int parse_events(const struct option *opt, const char *str, int unset __used)
struct perf_evlist *evlist = *(struct perf_evlist **)opt->value;
struct perf_event_attr attr;
enum event_result ret;
+ const char *ostr;
for (;;) {
+ ostr = str;
memset(&attr, 0, sizeof(attr));
ret = parse_event_symbols(opt, &str, &attr);
if (ret == EVT_FAILED)
@@ -798,6 +803,11 @@ int parse_events(const struct option *opt, const char *str, int unset __used)
if (evsel == NULL)
return -1;
perf_evlist__add(evlist, evsel);
+
+ evsel->name = calloc(str - ostr + 1, 1);
+ if (!evsel->name)
+ return -1;
+ strncpy(evsel->name, ostr, str - ostr);
}
if (*str == 0)