Re: [PATCH 5/9] perf stat: Fix --metric-only --json output

From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
Date: Wed Nov 09 2022 - 13:34:27 EST


Em Tue, Nov 08, 2022 at 02:07:39PM -0800, Namhyung Kim escreveu:
> Hi Arnaldo,
>
> On Tue, Nov 8, 2022 at 12:45 PM Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
> <acme@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Em Mon, Nov 07, 2022 at 01:33:10PM -0800, Namhyung Kim escreveu:
> > > Currently it prints all metric headers for JSON output. But actually it
> > > skips some metrics with valid_only_metric(). So the output looks like:
> > >
> > > $ perf stat --metric-only --json true
> > > {"unit" : "CPUs utilized", "unit" : "/sec", "unit" : "/sec", "unit" : "/sec", "unit" : "GHz", "unit" : "insn per cycle", "unit" : "/sec", "unit" : "branch-misses of all branches"}
> > > {"metric-value" : "3.861"}{"metric-value" : "0.79"}{"metric-value" : "3.04"}
> > >
> > > As you can see there are 8 units in the header but only 3 metric-values
> > > are there. It should skip the unused headers as well. Also each unit
> > > should be printed as a separate object like metric values.
> > >
> > > With this patch:
> > >
> > > $ perf stat --metric-only --json true
> > > {"unit" : "GHz"}{"unit" : "insn per cycle"}{"unit" : "branch-misses of all branches"}
> > > {"metric-value" : "4.166"}{"metric-value" : "0.73"}{"metric-value" : "2.96"}
> >
> > Can we get a Fixes tag for this one?
>
> I think this is it:
>
> df936cadfb58 ("perf stat: Add JSON output option")

I'll add it

> But this also depends on patch 4. Do you want me to rebase
> this not to depend on it?

Nope, I put the first one on perf/urgent, 2- on perf/core,

- Arnaldo

> Thanks,
> Namhyung
>
> >
> > > Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > > ---
> > > tools/perf/util/stat-display.c | 22 +++-------------------
> > > 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-)
> > >
> > > diff --git a/tools/perf/util/stat-display.c b/tools/perf/util/stat-display.c
> > > index 115477461224..515fb6db3d67 100644
> > > --- a/tools/perf/util/stat-display.c
> > > +++ b/tools/perf/util/stat-display.c
> > > @@ -430,12 +430,12 @@ static void print_metric_header(struct perf_stat_config *config,
> > > os->evsel->priv != os->evsel->evlist->selected->priv)
> > > return;
> > >
> > > - if (!valid_only_metric(unit) && !config->json_output)
> > > + if (!valid_only_metric(unit))
> > > return;
> > > unit = fixunit(tbuf, os->evsel, unit);
> > >
> > > if (config->json_output)
> > > - fprintf(os->fh, "\"unit\" : \"%s\"", unit);
> > > + fprintf(os->fh, "{\"unit\" : \"%s\"}", unit);
> > > else if (config->csv_output)
> > > fprintf(os->fh, "%s%s", unit, config->csv_sep);
> > > else
> > > @@ -847,10 +847,6 @@ static void print_metric_headers(struct perf_stat_config *config,
> > > .new_line = new_line_metric,
> > > .force_header = true,
> > > };
> > > - bool first = true;
> > > -
> > > - if (config->json_output && !config->interval)
> > > - fprintf(config->output, "{");
> > >
> > > if (prefix && !config->json_output)
> > > fprintf(config->output, "%s", prefix);
> > > @@ -871,18 +867,12 @@ static void print_metric_headers(struct perf_stat_config *config,
> > > evlist__for_each_entry(evlist, counter) {
> > > os.evsel = counter;
> > >
> > > - if (!first && config->json_output)
> > > - fprintf(config->output, ", ");
> > > - first = false;
> > > -
> > > perf_stat__print_shadow_stats(config, counter, 0,
> > > 0,
> > > &out,
> > > &config->metric_events,
> > > &rt_stat);
> > > }
> > > - if (config->json_output)
> > > - fprintf(config->output, "}");
> > > fputc('\n', config->output);
> > > }
> > >
> > > @@ -954,14 +944,8 @@ static void print_interval(struct perf_stat_config *config,
> > > }
> > > }
> > >
> > > - if ((num_print_interval == 0 || config->interval_clear)
> > > - && metric_only && !config->json_output)
> > > + if ((num_print_interval == 0 || config->interval_clear) && metric_only)
> > > print_metric_headers(config, evlist, " ", true);
> > > - if ((num_print_interval == 0 || config->interval_clear)
> > > - && metric_only && config->json_output) {
> > > - fprintf(output, "{");
> > > - print_metric_headers(config, evlist, " ", true);
> > > - }
> > > if (++num_print_interval == 25)
> > > num_print_interval = 0;
> > > }
> > > --
> > > 2.38.1.431.g37b22c650d-goog
> >
> > --
> >
> > - Arnaldo

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- Arnaldo