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Currently, the 'weight' field in the perf sample has latency information
for some instructions like in memory accesses. And perf tool has 'weight'
and 'local_weight' sort keys to display the info.
But it's somewhat confusing what it shows exactly. In my understanding,
'local_weight' shows a weight in a single sample, and (global) 'weight'
shows a sum of the weights in the hist_entry.
For example:
$ perf mem record -t load dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/null bs=4k count=1M
$ perf report --stdio -n -s +local_weight
...
#
# Overhead Samples Command Shared Object Symbol Local Weight
# ........ ....... ....... ................ ......................... ............
#
21.23% 313 dd [kernel.vmlinux] [k] lockref_get_not_zero 32
12.43% 183 dd [kernel.vmlinux] [k] lockref_get_not_zero 35
11.97% 159 dd [kernel.vmlinux] [k] lockref_get_not_zero 36
10.40% 141 dd [kernel.vmlinux] [k] lockref_put_return 32
7.63% 113 dd [kernel.vmlinux] [k] lockref_get_not_zero 33
6.37% 92 dd [kernel.vmlinux] [k] lockref_get_not_zero 34
6.15% 90 dd [kernel.vmlinux] [k] lockref_put_return 33
...
So let's look at the 'lockref_get_not_zero' symbols. The top entry
shows that 313 samples were captured with 'local_weight' 32, so the
total weight should be 313 x 32 = 10016. But it's not the case:
$ perf report --stdio -n -s +local_weight,weight -S lockref_get_not_zero
...
#
# Overhead Samples Command Shared Object Local Weight Weight
# ........ ....... ....... ................ ............ ......
#
1.36% 4 dd [kernel.vmlinux] 36 144
0.47% 4 dd [kernel.vmlinux] 37 148
0.42% 4 dd [kernel.vmlinux] 32 128
0.40% 4 dd [kernel.vmlinux] 34 136
0.35% 4 dd [kernel.vmlinux] 36 144
0.34% 4 dd [kernel.vmlinux] 35 140
0.30% 4 dd [kernel.vmlinux] 36 144
0.30% 4 dd [kernel.vmlinux] 34 136
0.30% 4 dd [kernel.vmlinux] 32 128
0.30% 4 dd [kernel.vmlinux] 32 128
...
With the 'weight' sort key, it's divided to 4 samples even with the same
info ('comm', 'dso', 'sym' and 'local_weight'). I don't think this is
what we want.
I found this because of the way it aggregates the 'weight' value. Since
it's not a period, we should not add them in the he->stat. Otherwise,
two 32 'weight' entries will create a 64 'weight' entry.
After that, new 32 'weight' samples don't have a matching entry so it'd
create a new entry and make it a 64 'weight' entry again and again.
Later, they will be merged into 128 'weight' entries during the
hists__collapse_resort() with 4 samples, multiple times like above.
Let's keep the weight and display it differently. For 'local_weight',
it can show the weight as is, and for (global) 'weight' it can display
the number multiplied by the number of samples.
With this change, I can see the expected numbers.
$ perf report --stdio -n -s +local_weight,weight -S lockref_get_not_zero
...
#
# Overhead Samples Command Shared Object Local Weight Weight
# ........ ....... ....... ................ ............ .....
#
21.23% 313 dd [kernel.vmlinux] 32 10016
12.43% 183 dd [kernel.vmlinux] 35 6405
11.97% 159 dd [kernel.vmlinux] 36 5724
7.63% 113 dd [kernel.vmlinux] 33 3729
6.37% 92 dd [kernel.vmlinux] 34 3128
4.17% 59 dd [kernel.vmlinux] 37 2183
0.08% 1 dd [kernel.vmlinux] 269 269
0.08% 1 dd [kernel.vmlinux] 38 38
Reviewed-by: Athira Jajeev <atrajeev@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Athira Jajeev <atrajeev@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211105225617.151364-1-namhyung@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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