Re: [BUG] perf stat: useless output for raw events with new eventparser

From: Jiri Olsa
Date: Mon Apr 23 2012 - 06:57:35 EST


On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 12:45:34PM +0200, Stephane Eranian wrote:
> Hi,
>
> With the new event parser, one can express raw events field by field:
>
> $ perf stat -e cpu/event=0x3c,umask=0x0/,cpu/event=0xc5,umask=0x0/ noploop 1
>
> The problem with this is that the output of perf stat becomes useless:
>
> $ perf stat -e cpu/event=0x3c,umask=0x0/,cpu/event=0xc5,umask=0x0/ noploop 1
> noploop for 1 seconds
>
> Performance counter stats for 'noploop 1':
>
> 2395038678 pmu
> 10787 pmu
> ^^^^^^
> 1.000802603 seconds time elapsed
>
> We lose the event names or encoding completely. Now for all events
> expressed via this
> new syntax , all we see is 'pmu'. That is pretty useless. It is hard
> to decrypt the results
> without some serious scripting.
>
> Not sure how to solve this given how the parser works. This looks like
> a regression to me.

I dont think thats regression, since you use new way to express an event.
Please check my answer in the other reply to Peter.

thanks,
jirka
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