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From:   Ze Gao <zegao2021@gmail.com>
Date:   Thu, 3 Aug 2023 19:01:30 +0800
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Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v6 5/5] perf sched: prefer to use prev_state_char
 introduced in sched_switch
To:     Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc:     Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>,
        Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>,
        Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>,
        Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>, Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>,
        Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>,
        Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>,
        Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
        linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-perf-users@vger.kernel.org,
        linux-trace-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Ze Gao <zegao@tencent.com>
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On Thu, Aug 3, 2023 at 5:34=E2=80=AFPM Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>=
 wrote:
>
> On Thu,  3 Aug 2023 04:33:52 -0400
> Ze Gao <zegao2021@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Since the sched_switch tracepoint introduces a new variable to
> > report sched-out task state in symbolic char, we prefer to use
> > it to spare from knowing internal implementations in kernel.
>
> The above needs to be rewritten to be more comprehensive.
> Feel free to reply to this thread with new versions of the change log and
> such. No need to send a new patch series to fix this before you know that
> the new version is acceptable or not.

Copy that! Thank you.

> Replying to a current patch series is fine, but sending out a new one
> causes the spam as it's much easier to ignore a thread than to ignore a n=
ew
> thread with a new series.

Thanks Steven!  Lesson learned.

Regards,
Ze

>
>
> >
> > Also we keep the old parsing logic intact but sync the state char
> > array with the latest kernel.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Ze Gao <zegao@tencent.com>
> > ---
> >  tools/perf/builtin-sched.c | 19 +++++++++++++++----
> >  1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-sched.c b/tools/perf/builtin-sched.c
> > index 5042874ba204..6f99a36206c9 100644
> > --- a/tools/perf/builtin-sched.c
> > +++ b/tools/perf/builtin-sched.c
> > @@ -837,7 +837,7 @@ replay_wakeup_event(struct perf_sched *sched,
> >
> >  static inline char task_state_char(int state)
> >  {
> > -     static const char state_to_char[] =3D "RSDTtXZPI";
> > +     static const char state_to_char[] =3D "RSDTtXZPIp";
> >       unsigned int bit =3D state ? ffs(state) : 0;
> >
> >       return bit < sizeof(state_to_char) - 1 ? state_to_char[bit] : '?'=
;
> > @@ -846,9 +846,20 @@ static inline char task_state_char(int state)
> >  static inline char get_task_prev_state(struct evsel *evsel,
> >                                      struct perf_sample *sample)
> >  {
> > -     const int prev_state =3D evsel__intval(evsel, sample, "prev_state=
");
> > +     char prev_state_char;
> > +     int prev_state;
> >
> > -     return task_state_char(prev_state);
> > +     /* prefer to use prev_state_char */
> > +     if (evsel__field(evsel, "prev_state_char"))
> > +             prev_state_char =3D (char) evsel__intval(evsel,
> > +                             sample, "prev_state_char");
> > +     else {
> > +             prev_state =3D (int) evsel__intval(evsel,
> > +                             sample, "prev_state");
> > +             prev_state_char =3D task_state_char(prev_state);
> > +     }
> > +
> > +     return prev_state_char;
> >  }
> >
> >  static int replay_switch_event(struct perf_sched *sched,
> > @@ -2145,7 +2156,7 @@ static void timehist_update_runtime_stats(struct =
thread_runtime *r,
> >               else if (r->last_time) {
> >                       u64 dt_wait =3D tprev - r->last_time;
> >
> > -                     if (r->last_state =3D=3D 'R')
> > +                     if (r->last_state =3D=3D 'R' || r->last_state =3D=
=3D 'p')
> >                               r->dt_preempt =3D dt_wait;
> >                       else if (r->last_state =3D=3D 'D')
> >                               r->dt_iowait =3D dt_wait;
>