perf evlist: Remove nr_groups

Maintaining the number of groups during event parsing is problematic
and since changing to sort/regroup events can only be computed by a
linear pass over the evlist. As the value is generally only used in
tests, rather than hold it in a variable compute it by passing over
the evlist when necessary.

This change highlights that libpfm's counting of groups with a single
entry disagreed with regular event parsing. The libpfm tests are
updated accordingly.

Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Florian Fischer <florian.fischer@muhq.space>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: James Clark <james.clark@arm.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: John Garry <john.g.garry@oracle.com>
Cc: Kajol Jain <kjain@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Kim Phillips <kim.phillips@amd.com>
Cc: Leo Yan <leo.yan@linaro.org>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Ravi Bangoria <ravi.bangoria@amd.com>
Cc: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Cc: Steinar H. Gunderson <sesse@google.com>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Suzuki Poulouse <suzuki.poulose@arm.com>
Cc: Xing Zhengjun <zhengjun.xing@linux.intel.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230312021543.3060328-2-irogers@google.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

3 files changed, 18 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/tools/lib/perf/evlist.c b/tools/lib/perf/evlist.c
index 2d6121e89ccb..81e8b5fcd8ba 100644
--- a/tools/lib/perf/evlist.c
+++ b/tools/lib/perf/evlist.c
@@ -703,7 +703,23 @@ void perf_evlist__set_leader(struct perf_evlist *evlist)
 		struct perf_evsel *first = list_entry(evlist->entries.next,
 						struct perf_evsel, node);
 
-		evlist->nr_groups = evlist->nr_entries > 1 ? 1 : 0;
 		__perf_evlist__set_leader(&evlist->entries, first);
 	}
 }
+
+int perf_evlist__nr_groups(struct perf_evlist *evlist)
+{
+	struct perf_evsel *evsel;
+	int nr_groups = 0;
+
+	perf_evlist__for_each_evsel(evlist, evsel) {
+		/*
+		 * evsels by default have a nr_members of 1, and they are their
+		 * own leader. If the nr_members is >1 then this is an
+		 * indication of a group.
+		 */
+		if (evsel->leader == evsel && evsel->nr_members > 1)
+			nr_groups++;
+	}
+	return nr_groups;
+}
diff --git a/tools/lib/perf/include/internal/evlist.h b/tools/lib/perf/include/internal/evlist.h
index 850f07070036..3339bc2f1765 100644
--- a/tools/lib/perf/include/internal/evlist.h
+++ b/tools/lib/perf/include/internal/evlist.h
@@ -17,7 +17,6 @@ struct perf_mmap_param;
 struct perf_evlist {
 	struct list_head	 entries;
 	int			 nr_entries;
-	int			 nr_groups;
 	bool			 has_user_cpus;
 	bool			 needs_map_propagation;
 	/**
diff --git a/tools/lib/perf/include/perf/evlist.h b/tools/lib/perf/include/perf/evlist.h
index 9ca399d49bb4..e894b770779e 100644
--- a/tools/lib/perf/include/perf/evlist.h
+++ b/tools/lib/perf/include/perf/evlist.h
@@ -47,4 +47,5 @@ LIBPERF_API struct perf_mmap *perf_evlist__next_mmap(struct perf_evlist *evlist,
 	     (pos) = perf_evlist__next_mmap((evlist), (pos), overwrite))
 
 LIBPERF_API void perf_evlist__set_leader(struct perf_evlist *evlist);
+LIBPERF_API int perf_evlist__nr_groups(struct perf_evlist *evlist);
 #endif /* __LIBPERF_EVLIST_H */