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Date: Fri, 12 Feb 2016 13:45:17 -0200
From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
To: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 10/54] perf stat: Forbid user passing improper config
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Em Fri, Feb 12, 2016 at 02:49:08PM +0100, Jiri Olsa escreveu:
> On Fri, Feb 05, 2016 at 02:01:35PM +0000, Wang Nan wrote:
> > 'perf stat' accepts some config terms but doesn't apply them. For
> > example:
> > 
> >  # perf stat -e 'instructions/no-inherit/' -e 'instructions/inherit/' bash
> >  # ls
> >  # exit
> > 
> >  Performance counter stats for 'bash':
> > 
> >          266258061      instructions/no-inherit/
> >          266258061      instructions/inherit/
> 
> hum, but we support no-/inherit in stat, it'd be better to
> implement this one for stat IMO
> 
> 
> > 
> >        1.402183915 seconds time elapsed
> > 
> > The result is confusing, because user may expect the first
> > 'instructions' event exclude the 'ls' command.
> > 
> > This patch forbit most of those config terms for 'perf stat'.
> > 
> > Result:
> > 
> >  # ./perf stat -e 'instructions/no-inherit/' -e 'instructions/inherit/' bash
> >  event syntax error: 'instructions/no-inherit/'
> >                       \___ Don't use record mode only config terms
> 
> and there's bunch of others which are sampling related:
>   PARSE_EVENTS__TERM_TYPE_SAMPLE_*
>   PERF_EVSEL__CONFIG_TERM_CALLGRAPH
>   PERF_EVSEL__CONFIG_TERM_STACK_USER
>   ...
> 
> probably all from get_config_terms apart from the 'inherot' ones,
> which should end up with the error message, which could be more
> user friendly like:
> 
>   - Can't use stack-size term in stat event.

'stat' event? If this is the term you want to use maybe:

    'stack-size' is not usable in 'perf stat'.

But perhaps it would be better as:

    'stack-size' can only be used when sampling.

Or even more verbose:

    The 'stack-size' can only be configured when sampling, not when just
    counting events.

No?

- Arnaldo