Re: [PATCH] perf report: Show zero counters as well in 'perf report --stat'

[Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>]

On Wed, Mar 07, 2018 at 04:24:30PM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> 
> When recently using 'perf report --stat' it was not clear to me from the output 
> whether a particular statistics field (LOST_SAMPLES) was not present, or just 
> zero:
> 
>   fomalhaut:~> perf report --stat
> 
>   Aggregated stats:
>            TOTAL events:     495984
>             MMAP events:         85
>             COMM events:       3389
>             EXIT events:       1605
>         THROTTLE events:          2
>       UNTHROTTLE events:          2
>             FORK events:       3377
>           SAMPLE events:     472629
>            MMAP2 events:      14753
>   FINISHED_ROUND events:        139
>       THREAD_MAP events:          1
>          CPU_MAP events:          1
>        TIME_CONV events:          1
> 
> I had to check the output several times to ascertain that I'm not misreading the 
> output, that the field didn't change and that I didn't misremember the name. In 
> fact I had to look into the perf source to make sure that zero fields are indeed 
> not shown.
> 
> With the patch applied:
> 
>   fomalhaut:~> perf report --stat
> 
>   Aggregated stats:
>            TOTAL events:     495984
>             MMAP events:         85
>             LOST events:          0
>             COMM events:       3389
>             EXIT events:       1605
>         THROTTLE events:          2
>       UNTHROTTLE events:          2
>             FORK events:       3377
>             READ events:          0
>           SAMPLE events:     472629
>            MMAP2 events:      14753
>              AUX events:          0
>     ITRACE_START events:          0
>     LOST_SAMPLES events:          0
>           SWITCH events:          0
>  SWITCH_CPU_WIDE events:          0
>       NAMESPACES events:          0
>             ATTR events:          0
>       EVENT_TYPE events:          0
>     TRACING_DATA events:          0
>         BUILD_ID events:          0
>   FINISHED_ROUND events:        139
>         ID_INDEX events:          0
>    AUXTRACE_INFO events:          0
>         AUXTRACE events:          0
>   AUXTRACE_ERROR events:          0
>       THREAD_MAP events:          1
>          CPU_MAP events:          1
>      STAT_CONFIG events:          0
>             STAT events:          0
>       STAT_ROUND events:          0
>     EVENT_UPDATE events:          0
>        TIME_CONV events:          1
>          FEATURE events:          0

ok, it also might be better to read since now the events
appear in the same place, not scattered based on what was
data was collected

jirka