Re: [PATCH v4 0/6] perf arm-spe: Enable timestamp

[James Clark <james.clark@arm.com>]

Hi Leo,

I was looking at testing this on N1SDP and I thought I would try the round trip with perf inject and
then perf report but saw that perf inject with SPE always results in an error (unrelated to your change)

	 -> ./perf report -i per-thread-spe-time.inject.data
	0x1328 [0x8]: failed to process type: 9 [Bad address]
	Error:
	failed to process sample


Do you have any test suggestions other than looking at the raw data?

Thanks
James

On 12/04/2021 12:10, Leo Yan wrote:
> This patch set is to enable timestamp for Arm SPE trace.  It reads out
> TSC parameters from the TIME_CONV event, the parameters are used for
> conversion between timer counter and kernel time and which is applied
> for Arm SPE samples.
> 
> This version dropped the change for adding hardware clock parameters
> into auxtrace info, alternatively, it utilizes the TIME_CONV event to
> extract the clock parameters which is used for timestamp calculation.
> 
> This patch set can be clearly applied on perf/core branch with:
> 
>   commit 2c0cb9f56020 ("perf test: Add a shell test for 'perf stat --bpf-counters' new option")
> 
> Ths patch series has been tested on Hisilicon D06 platform.
> 
> Changes from v3:
> * Let to be backwards-compatible for TIME_CONV event (Adrian).
> 
> Changes from v2:
> * Changed to use TIME_CONV event for extracting clock parameters (Al).
> 
> Changes from v1:
> * Rebased patch series on the latest perf/core branch;
> * Fixed the patch for dumping TSC parameters to support both the
>   older and new auxtrace info format.
> 
> 
> Leo Yan (6):
>   perf arm-spe: Remove unused enum value ARM_SPE_PER_CPU_MMAPS
>   perf arm-spe: Save clock parameters from TIME_CONV event
>   perf arm-spe: Convert event kernel time to counter value
>   perf arm-spe: Assign kernel time to synthesized event
>   perf arm-spe: Bail out if the trace is later than perf event
>   perf arm-spe: Don't wait for PERF_RECORD_EXIT event
> 
>  tools/perf/util/arm-spe.c | 74 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------
>  tools/perf/util/arm-spe.h |  1 -
>  2 files changed, 64 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
>