perf stat: Take cgroups into account for shadow stats
As of now it doesn't consider cgroups when collecting shadow stats and metrics so counter values from different cgroups will be saved in a same slot. This resulted in incorrect numbers when those cgroups have different workloads. For example, let's look at the scenario below: cgroups A and C runs same workload which burns a cpu while cgroup B runs a light workload. $ perf stat -a -e cycles,instructions --for-each-cgroup A,B,C sleep 1 Performance counter stats for 'system wide': 3,958,116,522 cycles A 6,722,650,929 instructions A # 2.53 insn per cycle 1,132,741 cycles B 571,743 instructions B # 0.00 insn per cycle 4,007,799,935 cycles C 6,793,181,523 instructions C # 2.56 insn per cycle 1.001050869 seconds time elapsed When I run 'perf stat' with single workload, it usually shows IPC around 1.7. We can verify it (6,722,650,929.0 / 3,958,116,522 = 1.698) for cgroup A. But in this case, since cgroups are ignored, cycles are averaged so it used the lower value for IPC calculation and resulted in around 2.5. avg cycle: (3958116522 + 1132741 + 4007799935) / 3 = 2655683066 IPC (A) : 6722650929 / 2655683066 = 2.531 IPC (B) : 571743 / 2655683066 = 0.0002 IPC (C) : 6793181523 / 2655683066 = 2.557 We can simply compare cgroup pointers in the evsel and it'll be NULL when cgroups are not specified. With this patch, I can see correct numbers like below: $ perf stat -a -e cycles,instructions --for-each-cgroup A,B,C sleep 1 Performance counter stats for 'system wide': 4,171,051,687 cycles A 7,219,793,922 instructions A # 1.73 insn per cycle 1,051,189 cycles B 583,102 instructions B # 0.55 insn per cycle 4,171,124,710 cycles C 7,192,944,580 instructions C # 1.72 insn per cycle 1.007909814 seconds time elapsed Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Cc: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com> Cc: Jin Yao <yao.jin@linux.intel.com> Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Link: http://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20210115071139.257042-2-namhyung@kernel.orgSigned-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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