perf metric: JSON flag to not group events if gathering a metric group

Some metric groups have metrics that don't have fully overlapping
events, meaning that the group's events become unique event groups that
may need to multiplex with each other. This can be particularly
unfortunate when the groups wouldn't need to multiplex because there are
sufficient hardware counters.

Add a flag so that if recording a metric group then the metrics within
the group needn't use groups for their events. The flag is added to
Intel TopdownL1 and TopdownL2 metrics.

Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Tested-by: Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Ahmad Yasin <ahmad.yasin@intel.com>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Athira Rajeev <atrajeev@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Caleb Biggers <caleb.biggers@intel.com>
Cc: Edward Baker <edward.baker@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: Kang Minchul <tegongkang@gmail.com>
Cc: Leo Yan <leo.yan@linaro.org>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Perry Taylor <perry.taylor@intel.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Ravi Bangoria <ravi.bangoria@amd.com>
Cc: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>
Cc: Samantha Alt <samantha.alt@intel.com>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Sumanth Korikkar <sumanthk@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Suzuki Poulouse <suzuki.poulose@arm.com>
Cc: Thomas Richter <tmricht@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Tiezhu Yang <yangtiezhu@loongson.cn>
Cc: Weilin Wang <weilin.wang@intel.com>
Cc: Xing Zhengjun <zhengjun.xing@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Yang Jihong <yangjihong1@huawei.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230502223851.2234828-4-irogers@google.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/tools/perf/pmu-events/pmu-events.h b/tools/perf/pmu-events/pmu-events.h
index b7dff8f1021f..80349685cf4d 100644
--- a/tools/perf/pmu-events/pmu-events.h
+++ b/tools/perf/pmu-events/pmu-events.h
@@ -59,6 +59,7 @@ struct pmu_metric {
 	const char *compat;
 	const char *desc;
 	const char *long_desc;
+	const char *metricgroup_no_group;
 	enum aggr_mode_class aggr_mode;
 	enum metric_event_groups event_grouping;
 };