Re: [PATCH] perf/amd: Prevent grouping of IBS events

[Ian Rogers]

On Wed, Jun 21, 2023 at 10:39 PM Ravi Bangoria <ravi.bangoria@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hi Ian,
>
> >> Before:
> >>   $ sudo ./perf record -e "{ibs_op//,ibs_op//}" -C 0
> >>   ^C[ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ]
> >>   [ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.540 MB perf.data (531 samples) ]
> >>
> >> After:
> >>   $ sudo ./perf record -e "{ibs_op//,ibs_op//}" -C 0
> >>   Error:
> >>   AMD IBS may only be available in system-wide/per-cpu mode.
> >>   Try using -a, or -C and workload affinity
> >>
> >> The error message is stale and misleading. I have a patch to fix it.
> >> I'll post it separately.
> >
> > Thanks Ravi, so this is a workaround for a PMU driver bug where the
> > perf_event_open should have failed for the sibling event?
>
> This is not a workaround. This kernel patch fixes PMU driver bug. With
> the patch, perf_event_open() will fail for sibling IBS event if either
> group leader or any other sibling is of the same IBS pmu. Or did I
> misread your comment?
>
> >
> > The behavior is somewhat reminiscent of arch_evsel__must_be_in_group:
> > https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/acme/linux.git/tree/tools/perf/arch/x86/util/evsel.c?h=perf-tools-next#n41
> >
> > Normally software events would be valid in the group, should the code
> > ignore these?
>
> Grouping of SW and IBS event will continue to work after this patch.

Sorry Ravi, I've got my head in the clouds. I was reading this as a
tools patch :-)

Thanks,
Ian

> Thanks,
> Ravi