Re: [PATCH] perf evsel: Correct clock unit to nanosecond

[leo.yan@linaro.org]

On Fri, Nov 30, 2018 at 12:25:21PM -0300, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote:
> Em Fri, Nov 30, 2018 at 10:21:40PM +0800, leo.yan@linaro.org escreveu:
> > On Fri, Nov 30, 2018 at 11:21:54AM +0100, Jiri Olsa wrote:
> > > On Fri, Nov 30, 2018 at 06:06:05PM +0800, Leo Yan wrote:
> > > > Since commit 0aa802a79469 ("perf stat: Get rid of extra clock display
> > > > function"), the cpu and task clock unit has been changed from
> > > > nanosecond value to millisecond value.  This introduces confusion for
> > > > CPU run time statistics, we can see in below flow the clock value is
> > > > scaled from nanosecond value to millisecond value; but this is
> > > > contradiction with statistics type 'STAT_NSECS', which always takes
> > > > clock as nanosecond unit.
> > 
> > [...]
> > 
> > > there was fix for this recently, could you please check
> > > if it's working for you:
> > >   6e269c85dcea perf stat: Fix shadow stats for clock events
> > 
> > Ah, I missed this patch ...
> > 
> > Yeah, I tested this patch and can confirm this patch fixes
> > this issue.
> 
> My fault, new notebook update process got in the way causing
> acme/perf/core to pile up, a perf/core pull req is about to be sent to
> Ingo now tho :-)

No worry :)  This patch has been passed by my email filter, so I
should check inbox carefully.

Thanks,
Leo Yan