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Revision b91e5492f9d7ca89919cfe8b0c5b5996263182f7 authored by Kan Liang on 08 July 2021, 16:03:32 UTC, committed by Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo on 09 July 2021, 17:04:32 UTC
Some symbols may not be resolved if a user only monitors one type of
PMU.

  $ sudo perf record -e cpu_atom/branch-instructions/ ./big_small_workload
  $ sudo perf report –stdio
  # Overhead  Command    Shared Object      Symbol
  # ........  .........  .................  .....................
  #
     28.02%  perf-exec  [unknown]          [.] 0x0000000000401cf6
     11.32%  perf-exec  [unknown]          [.] 0x0000000000401d04
     10.90%  perf-exec  [unknown]          [.] 0x0000000000401d11
     10.61%  perf-exec  [unknown]          [.] 0x0000000000401cfc

To parse symbols the metadata records, e.g., PERF_RECORD_COMM, which are
generated by the kernel, are required.

To decide whether to generate the metadata records, the kernel relies on
the event_filter_match() to filter the unrelated events.

On a hybrid system, event_filter_match() further checks the CPU mask of
the current enabled PMU. If an event is collected on the CPU which
doesn't have an enabled PMU, it's treated as an unrelated event.

The "big_small_workload" is created in a big core, but runs on a small
core. The metadata records are filtered, because the user only monitors
the PMU of the small core. The big core PMU is not enabled.

For a hybrid system, a dummy event is required to generate the complete
side-band events.

Signed-off-by: Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Jin Yao <yao.jin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Link: http://lore.kernel.org/lkml/1625760212-18441-1-git-send-email-kan.liang@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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Tip revision: b91e5492f9d7ca89919cfe8b0c5b5996263182f7 authored by Kan Liang on 08 July 2021, 16:03:32 UTC
perf record: Add a dummy event on hybrid systems to collect metadata records
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