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perf jevents: Fold strings optimization
authorIan Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Fri, 12 Aug 2022 23:09:49 +0000 (16:09 -0700)
committerArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Sat, 13 Aug 2022 18:03:09 +0000 (15:03 -0300)
commit77ceee34d9290772fb26b17b9856963399e0cf5e
treebb18918250b13a30d8934fd6eea1172e70a148fc
parent707645a76b8bcf925f8414d9acea1ee6c4cb1da3
perf jevents: Fold strings optimization

If a shorter string ends a longer string then the shorter string may
reuse the longer string at an offset. For example, on x86 the event
arith.cycles_div_busy and cycles_div_busy can be folded, even though
they have difference names the strings are identical after 6
characters. cycles_div_busy can reuse the arith.cycles_div_busy string
at an offset of 6.

In pmu-events.c this looks like the following where the 'also:' lists
folded strings:

/* offset=177541 */ "arith.cycles_div_busy\000\000pipeline\000Cycles the divider is busy\000\000\000event=0x14,period=2000000,umask=0x1\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000" /* also: cycles_div_busy\000\000pipeline\000Cycles the divider is busy\000\000\000event=0x14,period=2000000,umask=0x1\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000 */

As jevents.py combines multiple strings for an event into a larger
string, the amount of folding is minimal as all parts of the event must
align. Other organizations can benefit more from folding, but lose space
by say recording more offsets.

Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: James Clark <james.clark@arm.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: John Garry <john.garry@huawei.com>
Cc: Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Leo Yan <leo.yan@linaro.org>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Mike Leach <mike.leach@linaro.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Ravi Bangoria <ravi.bangoria@amd.com>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Cc: Xing Zhengjun <zhengjun.xing@linux.intel.com>
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220812230949.683239-15-irogers@google.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
tools/perf/pmu-events/jevents.py