perf stat: Collapse identically named events

The uncore PMU has a lot of duplicated PMUs for different subsystems.
When expanding an uncore alias we usually end up with a large
number of identically named aliases, which makes perf stat
output difficult to read.

Automatically sum them up in perf stat, unless --no-merge is specified.

This can be default because only the uncores generally have duplicated
aliases. Other PMUs have unique names.

Before:

  % perf stat --no-merge -a -e unc_c_llc_lookup.any sleep 1

  Performance counter stats for 'system wide':

           694,976 Bytes unc_c_llc_lookup.any
           706,304 Bytes unc_c_llc_lookup.any
           956,608 Bytes unc_c_llc_lookup.any
           782,720 Bytes unc_c_llc_lookup.any
           605,696 Bytes unc_c_llc_lookup.any
           442,816 Bytes unc_c_llc_lookup.any
           659,328 Bytes unc_c_llc_lookup.any
           509,312 Bytes unc_c_llc_lookup.any
           263,936 Bytes unc_c_llc_lookup.any
           592,448 Bytes unc_c_llc_lookup.any
           672,448 Bytes unc_c_llc_lookup.any
           608,640 Bytes unc_c_llc_lookup.any
           641,024 Bytes unc_c_llc_lookup.any
           856,896 Bytes unc_c_llc_lookup.any
           808,832 Bytes unc_c_llc_lookup.any
           684,864 Bytes unc_c_llc_lookup.any
           710,464 Bytes unc_c_llc_lookup.any
           538,304 Bytes unc_c_llc_lookup.any

       1.002577660 seconds time elapsed

After:

  % perf stat -a -e unc_c_llc_lookup.any sleep 1

  Performance counter stats for 'system wide':

         2,685,120 Bytes unc_c_llc_lookup.any

       1.002648032 seconds time elapsed

v2: Split collect_aliases. Rename alias flag.
v3: Make sure unsupported/not counted is always printed.
v4: Factor out callback change into separate patch.
v5: Move check for bad results here
    Move merged check into collect_data

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <[email protected]>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>

Author: Andi Kleen

tools/perf/Documentation/perf-stat.txt

@@ -236,6 +236,9 @@ To interpret the results it is usually needed to know on which
 CPUs the workload runs on. If needed the CPUs can be forced using
 taskset.
 
+--no-merge::
+Do not merge results from same PMUs.
+
 EXAMPLES
 --------
 

tools/perf/builtin-stat.c

@@ -140,6 +140,7 @@ static unsigned int		unit_width			= 4; /* strlen("unit") */
 static bool			forever				= false;
 static bool			metric_only			= false;
 static bool			force_metric_only		= false;
+static bool			no_merge			= false;
 static struct timespec		ref_time;
 static struct cpu_map		*aggr_map;
 static aggr_get_id_t		aggr_get_id;
@@ -1182,12 +1183,37 @@ static void aggr_update_shadow(void)
 	}
 }
 
-static void collect_data(struct perf_evsel *counter,
+static void collect_all_aliases(struct perf_evsel *counter,
 			    void (*cb)(struct perf_evsel *counter, void *data,
 				       bool first),
 			    void *data)
 {
+	struct perf_evsel *alias;
+
+	alias = list_prepare_entry(counter, &(evsel_list->entries), node);
+	list_for_each_entry_continue (alias, &evsel_list->entries, node) {
+		if (strcmp(perf_evsel__name(alias), perf_evsel__name(counter)) ||
+		    alias->scale != counter->scale ||
+		    alias->cgrp != counter->cgrp ||
+		    strcmp(alias->unit, counter->unit) ||
+		    nsec_counter(alias) != nsec_counter(counter))
+			break;
+		alias->merged_stat = true;
+		cb(alias, data, false);
+	}
+}
+
+static bool collect_data(struct perf_evsel *counter,
+			    void (*cb)(struct perf_evsel *counter, void *data,
+				       bool first),
+			    void *data)
+{
+	if (counter->merged_stat)
+		return false;
 	cb(counter, data, true);
+	if (!no_merge)
+		collect_all_aliases(counter, cb, data);
+	return true;
 }
 
 struct aggr_data {
@@ -1245,7 +1271,8 @@ static void print_aggr(char *prefix)
 		evlist__for_each_entry(evsel_list, counter) {
 			ad.val = ad.ena = ad.run = 0;
 			ad.nr = 0;
-			collect_data(counter, aggr_cb, &ad);
+			if (!collect_data(counter, aggr_cb, &ad))
+				continue;
 			nr = ad.nr;
 			ena = ad.ena;
 			run = ad.run;
@@ -1318,7 +1345,8 @@ static void print_counter_aggr(struct perf_evsel *counter, char *prefix)
 	double uval;
 	struct caggr_data cd = { .avg = 0.0 };
 
-	collect_data(counter, counter_aggr_cb, &cd);
+	if (!collect_data(counter, counter_aggr_cb, &cd))
+		return;
 
 	if (prefix && !metric_only)
 		fprintf(output, "%s", prefix);
@@ -1353,7 +1381,8 @@ static void print_counter(struct perf_evsel *counter, char *prefix)
 	for (cpu = 0; cpu < perf_evsel__nr_cpus(counter); cpu++) {
 		struct aggr_data ad = { .cpu = cpu };
 
-		collect_data(counter, counter_cb, &ad);
+		if (!collect_data(counter, counter_cb, &ad))
+			return;
 		val = ad.val;
 		ena = ad.ena;
 		run = ad.run;
@@ -1701,6 +1730,7 @@ static const struct option stat_options[] = {
 		    "list of cpus to monitor in system-wide"),
 	OPT_SET_UINT('A', "no-aggr", &stat_config.aggr_mode,
 		    "disable CPU count aggregation", AGGR_NONE),
+	OPT_BOOLEAN(0, "no-merge", &no_merge, "Do not merge identical named events"),
 	OPT_STRING('x', "field-separator", &csv_sep, "separator",
 		   "print counts with custom separator"),
 	OPT_CALLBACK('G', "cgroup", &evsel_list, "name",

tools/perf/util/evsel.h

@@ -131,6 +131,7 @@ struct perf_evsel {
 	bool			cmdline_group_boundary;
 	struct list_head	config_terms;
 	int			bpf_fd;
+	bool			merged_stat;
 };
 
 union u64_swap {