Subject: Re: [PATCH] perf vendor events power9: Remove UTF-8 characters from json files

From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2023 10:24:11 -0300

Em Tue, Mar 28, 2023 at 09:21:49AM -0700, Ian Rogers escreveu:
> On Tue, Mar 28, 2023 at 4:30 AM Kajol Jain <[email-masked]> wrote:
> >
> > Commit 3c22ba524304 ("perf vendor events powerpc: Update POWER9 events")
> > added and updated power9 pmu json events. However some of the json
> > events which are part of other.json and pipeline.json files,
> > contains UTF-8 characters in their brief description.
> > Having UTF-8 character could brakes the perf build on some distros.
> 
> nit: s/bakes/break/

I'll fix that later, thans.
 
> > Fix this issue by removing the UTF-8 characters from other.json and
> > pipeline.json files.
> >
> > Result without the fix patch:

[perfbuilder@five ~]$ cat dm.log/summary 
   1    23.25 ubuntu:18.04-x-powerpc        : Ok   powerpc-linux-gnu-gcc (Ubuntu 7.5.0-3ubuntu1~18.04) 7.5.0 
   2    24.56 ubuntu:18.04-x-powerpc64      : Ok   powerpc64-linux-gnu-gcc (Ubuntu 7.5.0-3ubuntu1~18.04) 7.5.0 
   3    25.06 ubuntu:18.04-x-powerpc64el    : Ok   powerpc64le-linux-gnu-gcc (Ubuntu 7.5.0-3ubuntu1~18.04) 7.5.0 
BUILD_TARBALL_HEAD=9da5ab1d38cd17fb47cbe5a1f95bca63e6ca9796

> > [command]# file -i pmu-events/arch/powerpc/power9/*
> > pmu-events/arch/powerpc/power9/cache.json:          application/json; charset=us-ascii
> > pmu-events/arch/powerpc/power9/floating-point.json: application/json; charset=us-ascii
> > pmu-events/arch/powerpc/power9/frontend.json:       application/json; charset=us-ascii
> > pmu-events/arch/powerpc/power9/marked.json:         application/json; charset=us-ascii
> > pmu-events/arch/powerpc/power9/memory.json:         application/json; charset=us-ascii
> > pmu-events/arch/powerpc/power9/metrics.json:        application/json; charset=us-ascii
> > pmu-events/arch/powerpc/power9/nest_metrics.json:   application/json; charset=us-ascii
> > pmu-events/arch/powerpc/power9/other.json:          application/json; charset=utf-8
> > pmu-events/arch/powerpc/power9/pipeline.json:       application/json; charset=utf-8
> > pmu-events/arch/powerpc/power9/pmc.json:            application/json; charset=us-ascii
> > pmu-events/arch/powerpc/power9/translation.json:    application/json; charset=us-ascii
> >
> > Result with the fix patch:
> >
> > [command]# file -i pmu-events/arch/powerpc/power9/*
> > pmu-events/arch/powerpc/power9/cache.json:          application/json; charset=us-ascii
> > pmu-events/arch/powerpc/power9/floating-point.json: application/json; charset=us-ascii
> > pmu-events/arch/powerpc/power9/frontend.json:       application/json; charset=us-ascii
> > pmu-events/arch/powerpc/power9/marked.json:         application/json; charset=us-ascii
> > pmu-events/arch/powerpc/power9/memory.json:         application/json; charset=us-ascii
> > pmu-events/arch/powerpc/power9/metrics.json:        application/json; charset=us-ascii
> > pmu-events/arch/powerpc/power9/nest_metrics.json:   application/json; charset=us-ascii
> > pmu-events/arch/powerpc/power9/other.json:          application/json; charset=us-ascii
> > pmu-events/arch/powerpc/power9/pipeline.json:       application/json; charset=us-ascii
> > pmu-events/arch/powerpc/power9/pmc.json:            application/json; charset=us-ascii
> > pmu-events/arch/powerpc/power9/translation.json:    application/json; charset=us-ascii
> >
> > Fixes: 3c22ba524304 ("perf vendor events powerpc: Update POWER9 events")
> > Reported-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email-masked]>
> > Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/[email-masked]/
> > Signed-off-by: Kajol Jain <[email-masked]>
> 
> Acked-by: Ian Rogers <[email-masked]>
> 
> Thanks,
> Ian
> 
> > ---
> >  tools/perf/pmu-events/arch/powerpc/power9/other.json    | 4 ++--
> >  tools/perf/pmu-events/arch/powerpc/power9/pipeline.json | 2 +-
> >  2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/tools/perf/pmu-events/arch/powerpc/power9/other.json b/tools/perf/pmu-events/arch/powerpc/power9/other.json
> > index 3f69422c21f9..f10bd554521a 100644
> > --- a/tools/perf/pmu-events/arch/powerpc/power9/other.json
> > +++ b/tools/perf/pmu-events/arch/powerpc/power9/other.json
> > @@ -1417,7 +1417,7 @@
> >    {
> >      "EventCode": "0x45054",
> >      "EventName": "PM_FMA_CMPL",
> > -    "BriefDescription": "two flops operation completed (fmadd, fnmadd, fmsub, fnmsub) Scalar instructions only. "
> > +    "BriefDescription": "two flops operation completed (fmadd, fnmadd, fmsub, fnmsub) Scalar instructions only."
> >    },
> >    {
> >      "EventCode": "0x201E8",
> > @@ -2017,7 +2017,7 @@
> >    {
> >      "EventCode": "0xC0BC",
> >      "EventName": "PM_LSU_FLUSH_OTHER",
> > -    "BriefDescription": "Other LSU flushes including: Sync (sync ack from L2 caused search of LRQ for oldest snooped load, This will either signal a Precise Flush of the oldest snooped loa or a Flush Next PPC); Data Valid Flush Next (several cases of this, one example is store and reload are lined up such that a store-hit-reload scenario exists and the CDF has already launched and has gotten bad/stale data); Bad Data Valid Flush Next (might be a few cases of this, one example is a larxa (D$ hit) return data and dval but can't allocate to LMQ (LMQ full or other reason). Already gave dval but can't watch it for snoop_hit_larx. Need to take the “bad dval” back and flush all younger ops)"
> > +    "BriefDescription": "Other LSU flushes including: Sync (sync ack from L2 caused search of LRQ for oldest snooped load, This will either signal a Precise Flush of the oldest snooped loa or a Flush Next PPC); Data Valid Flush Next (several cases of this, one example is store and reload are lined up such that a store-hit-reload scenario exists and the CDF has already launched and has gotten bad/stale data); Bad Data Valid Flush Next (might be a few cases of this, one example is a larxa (D$ hit) return data and dval but can't allocate to LMQ (LMQ full or other reason). Already gave dval but can't watch it for snoop_hit_larx. Need to take the 'bad dval' back and flush all younger ops)"
> >    },
> >    {
> >      "EventCode": "0x5094",
> > diff --git a/tools/perf/pmu-events/arch/powerpc/power9/pipeline.json b/tools/perf/pmu-events/arch/powerpc/power9/pipeline.json
> > index d0265f255de2..723bffa41c44 100644
> > --- a/tools/perf/pmu-events/arch/powerpc/power9/pipeline.json
> > +++ b/tools/perf/pmu-events/arch/powerpc/power9/pipeline.json
> > @@ -442,7 +442,7 @@
> >    {
> >      "EventCode": "0x4D052",
> >      "EventName": "PM_2FLOP_CMPL",
> > -    "BriefDescription": "DP vector version of fmul, fsub, fcmp, fsel, fabs, fnabs, fres ,fsqrte, fneg "
> > +    "BriefDescription": "DP vector version of fmul, fsub, fcmp, fsel, fabs, fnabs, fres ,fsqrte, fneg"
> >    },
> >    {
> >      "EventCode": "0x1F142",
> > --
> > 2.39.1
> >

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- Arnaldo