Subject: Re: [RESEND PATCH 1/1] perf arm-spe: report all SPE records as "all"
 events
To:     Leo Yan <leo.yan@linaro.org>
Cc:     linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-perf-users@vger.kernel.org,
        acme@kernel.org, James Clark <james.clark@arm.com>,
        Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>,
        Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>,
        Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>,
        Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>,
        John Garry <john.garry@huawei.com>,
        Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>,
        Mathieu Poirier <mathieu.poirier@linaro.org>,
        linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
References: <20211117142833.226629-1-german.gomez@arm.com>
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From:   German Gomez <german.gomez@arm.com>
Message-ID: <3a84dd85-7bae-49ea-75cc-52f9a8220cc4@arm.com>
Date:   Thu, 25 Nov 2021 11:54:16 +0000
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Hi Leo,

On 25/11/2021 07:53, Leo Yan wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 17, 2021 at 02:28:32PM +0000, German Gomez wrote:
>> [...]
> After checked the event types, I think "other" samples would include
> below raw event types:
>
>   EV_EXCEPTION_GEN
>   EV_RETIRED
>   EV_NOT_TAKEN
>   EV_ALIGNMENT
>   EV_PARTIAL_PREDICATE
>   EV_EMPTY_PREDICATE
>
> I am just wander if we can use sample.transaction to store these event
> types, otherwise, we cannot distinguish the event type for the samples.

I'm not familiar with the meaning of transactions in this context, but
I agree giving visibility of these remaining events is a good idea. I'm
just unsure where to place them from the available --itrace options.

Regarding the "all" events, we thought having quick access to a  global
histogram of all the spe events is useful, and from all the --itrace
options it seemed to fit best under --itrace=o.

Thanks,
German

>
> And it's good fill more sample fields for complete info, like:
>
>   sample.addr = record->virt_addr;
>   sample.phys_addr = record->phys_addr;
>   sample.data_src = data_src;
>
> Thanks,
> Leo
>
>> [...]