perf test: Add skip list for metrics known would fail

Add skip list for metrics known would fail because some of the metrics are
very likely to fail due to multiplexing or other errors. So add all of the
flaky tests into the skip list.

Signed-off-by: Weilin Wang <[email protected]>
Tested-by: Namhyung Kim <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: Ian Rogers <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <[email protected]>
Cc: Caleb Biggers <[email protected]>
Cc: Perry Taylor <[email protected]>
Cc: Samantha Alt <[email protected]>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <[email protected]>
Cc: Kan Liang <[email protected]>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <[email protected]>

2 files changed, 38 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/tools/perf/tests/shell/lib/perf_metric_validation.py b/tools/perf/tests/shell/lib/perf_metric_validation.py
index 81bd2bf38b67..3c3a9b4f8b82 100644
--- a/tools/perf/tests/shell/lib/perf_metric_validation.py
+++ b/tools/perf/tests/shell/lib/perf_metric_validation.py
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ class Validator:
         self.reportfname = reportfname
         self.rules = None
         self.collectlist=metrics
-        self.metrics = set()
+        self.metrics = set(metrics)
         self.tolerance = t
 
         self.workloads = [x for x in workload.split(",") if x]
@@ -148,6 +148,7 @@ class Validator:
                 self.errlist.append("Metric '%s' is not collected"%(name))
             elif val < 0:
                 negmetric.add("{0}(={1:.4f})".format(name, val))
+                self.collectlist[0].append(name)
             else:
                 pcnt += 1
             tcnt += 1
@@ -266,6 +267,7 @@ class Validator:
                 passcnt += 1
             else:
                 faillist.append({'MetricName':m['Name'], 'CollectedValue':result})
+                self.collectlist[0].append(m['Name'])
 
         self.totalcnt += totalcnt
         self.passedcnt += passcnt
@@ -348,7 +350,7 @@ class Validator:
             if rule["TestType"] == "RelationshipTest":
                 metrics = [m["Name"] for m in rule["Metrics"]]
                 if not any(m not in collectlist[0] for m in metrics):
-                    collectlist[rule["RuleIndex"]] = set(metrics)
+                    collectlist[rule["RuleIndex"]] = [",".join(list(set(metrics)))]
 
         for idx, metrics in collectlist.items():
             if idx == 0: wl = "sleep 0.5".split()
@@ -356,9 +358,12 @@ class Validator:
             for metric in metrics:
                 command = [tool, 'stat', '-j', '-M', f"{metric}", "-a"]
                 command.extend(wl)
+                print(" ".join(command))
                 cmd = subprocess.run(command, stderr=subprocess.PIPE, encoding='utf-8')
                 data = [x+'}' for x in cmd.stderr.split('}\n') if x]
                 self.convert(data, idx)
+        self.collectlist = dict()
+        self.collectlist[0] = list()
     # End of Collector and Converter
 
     # Start of Rule Generator
@@ -386,6 +391,20 @@ class Validator:
 
         return
 
+    def remove_unsupported_rules(self, rules, skiplist: set = None):
+        for m in skiplist:
+            self.metrics.discard(m)
+        new_rules = []
+        for rule in rules:
+            add_rule = True
+            for m in rule["Metrics"]:
+                if m["Name"] not in self.metrics:
+                    add_rule = False
+                    break
+            if add_rule:
+                new_rules.append(rule)
+        return new_rules
+
     def create_rules(self):
         """
         Create full rules which includes:
@@ -394,7 +413,10 @@ class Validator:
 
         Reindex all the rules to avoid repeated RuleIndex
         """
-        self.rules = self.read_json(self.rulefname)['RelationshipRules']
+        data = self.read_json(self.rulefname)
+        rules = data['RelationshipRules']
+        skiplist = set(data['SkipList'])
+        self.rules = self.remove_unsupported_rules(rules, skiplist)
         pctgrule = {'RuleIndex':0,
                     'TestType':'SingleMetricTest',
                     'RangeLower':'0',
@@ -453,7 +475,8 @@ class Validator:
 
         The final report is written into a JSON file.
         '''
-        self.parse_perf_metrics()
+        if not self.collectlist:
+            self.parse_perf_metrics()
         self.create_rules()
         for i in range(0, len(self.workloads)):
             self._init_data()
diff --git a/tools/perf/tests/shell/lib/perf_metric_validation_rules.json b/tools/perf/tests/shell/lib/perf_metric_validation_rules.json
index debaa910da9f..eb6f59e018b7 100644
--- a/tools/perf/tests/shell/lib/perf_metric_validation_rules.json
+++ b/tools/perf/tests/shell/lib/perf_metric_validation_rules.json
@@ -1,4 +1,15 @@
 {
+    "SkipList": [
+        "tsx_aborted_cycles",
+        "tsx_transactional_cycles",
+        "C2_Pkg_Residency",
+        "C6_Pkg_Residency",
+        "C1_Core_Residency",
+        "C6_Core_Residency",
+        "tma_false_sharing",
+        "tma_remote_cache",
+        "tma_contested_accesses"
+    ],
     "RelationshipRules": [
         {
             "RuleIndex": 1,