From: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
To: irogers@google.com, acme@kernel.org, namhyung@kernel.org
Cc: adrian.hunter@intel.com, james.clark@linaro.org,
jolsa@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-perf-users@vger.kernel.org, mingo@redhat.com,
nigro.fra@gmail.com, peterz@infradead.org,
tmricht@linux.ibm.com
Subject: [PATCH v3 0/2] perf tool_pmu: Support enable/disable for tool PMU events
Date: Mon, 18 May 2026 15:37:31 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260518223733.3034897-1-irogers@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260518201419.2943132-1-irogers@google.com>
A regression in perf stat was reported where tool PMU events (like
duration_time used in CPUs_utilized metric) incorrectly included the
delay period when using the delay option (-D).
This series fixes the regression by making tool PMU events
(duration_time, user_time, system_time) behave more like regular
counters by implementing proper enable and disable support. They now
correctly accumulate values only when enabled.
The first patch implements the core enable/disable support for tool PMU
events, and the second patch adds a shell test to verify that
duration_time correctly excludes the delay period.
Changes in v3:
- Refine group handling: only manually enable/disable group members when
the leader or member is a non-perf-event open PMU, as the kernel allows
grouping of software and hardware PMUs.
- Fix a file descriptor leak in evsel__tool_pmu_open() on error paths by
explicitly closing the successfully opened fd before exiting.
- Synchronize the 'disabled' flag for all group members in enable/disable
paths (both per-CPU and batch loops) to prevent stale disabled flags.
- Add explicit early exits to evsel__tool_pmu_enable() and disable() based
on evsel->disabled to protect internal metric state.
- Add an upper bound check in test_stat_delay to verify that the delay was
actually excluded.
Changes in v2:
- Implement evsel__tool_pmu_enable() and evsel__tool_pmu_disable() to
avoid ioctl failures in batch evsel__enable() and evsel__disable()
functions.
- Correctly iterate and enable/disable tool PMU events configured as
non-leader members of event groups.
- Correct the lseek() arguments order in the read_stat helper:
lseek(fd, 0, SEEK_SET) instead of lseek(fd, SEEK_SET, 0).
- Introduce INVALID_START_TIME (~0ULL) to prevent erroneous large delta
accumulation in evsel__tool_pmu_read() if /proc/<pid>/stat fails to
read in enable_cpu (e.g., process exited).
- Improve test parsing to use LC_ALL=C and cut to be robust against
different locales, and use awk to dynamically compare duration_time to
time elapsed with a 200ms tolerance (avoiding loaded CI false failures).
Also added a lower-bound check.
- Fix style warnings from checkpatch.pl (line lengths, braces, and blank
lines).
Ian Rogers (2):
perf tool_pmu: Make tool PMU events respect enable/disable
perf tests: Add test for stat delay option with duration_time
tools/perf/tests/shell/stat.sh | 53 +++++++
tools/perf/util/evlist.c | 10 +-
tools/perf/util/evsel.c | 196 +++++++++++++++++++------
tools/perf/util/evsel.h | 15 +-
tools/perf/util/tool_pmu.c | 253 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------
tools/perf/util/tool_pmu.h | 4 +
6 files changed, 432 insertions(+), 99 deletions(-)
--
2.54.0.631.ge1b05301d1-goog
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-05-18 22:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-05-18 18:39 [PATCH v1 " Ian Rogers
2026-05-18 18:39 ` [PATCH v1 1/2] perf tool_pmu: Make tool PMU events respect enable/disable Ian Rogers
2026-05-18 18:39 ` [PATCH v1 2/2] perf tests: Add test for stat delay option with duration_time Ian Rogers
2026-05-18 20:14 ` [PATCH v2 0/2] perf tool_pmu: Support enable/disable for tool PMU events Ian Rogers
2026-05-18 20:14 ` [PATCH v2 1/2] perf tool_pmu: Make tool PMU events respect enable/disable Ian Rogers
2026-05-18 20:14 ` [PATCH v2 2/2] perf tests: Add test for stat delay option with duration_time Ian Rogers
2026-05-18 22:37 ` Ian Rogers [this message]
2026-05-18 22:37 ` [PATCH v3 1/2] perf tool_pmu: Make tool PMU events respect enable/disable Ian Rogers
2026-05-18 22:37 ` [PATCH v3 2/2] perf tests: Add test for stat delay option with duration_time Ian Rogers
2026-05-19 1:41 ` [PATCH v4 0/2] perf tool_pmu: Support enable/disable for tool PMU events Ian Rogers
2026-05-19 1:41 ` [PATCH v4 1/2] perf tool_pmu: Make tool PMU events respect enable/disable Ian Rogers
2026-05-19 6:43 ` Namhyung Kim
2026-05-19 8:13 ` Ian Rogers
2026-05-20 23:06 ` Namhyung Kim
2026-05-23 0:40 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2026-05-19 1:41 ` [PATCH v4 2/2] perf tests: Add test for stat delay option with duration_time Ian Rogers
2026-05-22 22:10 ` [PATCH v4 0/2] perf tool_pmu: Support enable/disable for tool PMU events Ian Rogers
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