Re: [PATCH] perf stat: fix per-pkg event reporting bug

From: Jiri Olsa
Date: Thu Sep 03 2015 - 06:06:02 EST


On Wed, Sep 02, 2015 at 01:26:57PM -0700, Andi Kleen wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 02, 2015 at 03:17:51PM +0200, Stephane Eranian wrote:
> > Per-pkg events need to be captured once per processor
> > socket. The code in check_per_pkg() ensures only one
> > value per processor package is used. However there is
> > a problem with this function in case the first CPU of
> > the package does not measure anything for the per-pkg event,
> > but other CPUs do.
>
> I've seen a similar(?) bug with -C and --per-core combined.
> Some logical threads are not correctly accounted there either.
> Do you think that's another instance of such a bug?

AFAICS this is related strictly to per-pkg events,
is this what you were doing?

jirka
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