perf test: Avoid counting commas in json linter

Commas may appear in events like:

  cpu/INT_MISC.RECOVERY_CYCLES,cmask=1,edge/

which causes the count of commas to see more items than expected. Switch
to counting the entries in the dictionary, which is 1 more than the
number of commas.

Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Athira Rajeev <atrajeev@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Claire Jensen <cjense@google.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Sumanth Korikkar <sumanthk@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Thomas Richter <tmricht@linux.ibm.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230223071818.329671-2-irogers@google.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

Author: captain5050

tools/perf/tests/shell/lib/perf_json_output_lint.py

@@ -40,19 +40,6 @@ def is_counter_value(num):
   return isfloat(num) or num == '<not counted>' or num == '<not supported>'
 
 def check_json_output(expected_items):
-  if expected_items != -1:
-    for line in Lines:
-      if 'failed' not in line:
-        count = 0
-        count = line.count(',')
-        if count != expected_items and count >= 1 and count <= 3 and 'metric-value' in line:
-          # Events that generate >1 metric may have isolated metric
-          # values and possibly other prefixes like interval, core and
-          # aggregate-number.
-          continue
-        if count != expected_items:
-          raise RuntimeError(f'wrong number of fields. counted {count} expected {expected_items}'
-                             f' in \'{line}\'')
   checks = {
       'aggregate-number': lambda x: isfloat(x),
       'core': lambda x: True,
@@ -73,6 +60,16 @@ def check_json_output(expected_items):
   }
   input = '[\n' + ','.join(Lines) + '\n]'
   for item in json.loads(input):
+    if expected_items != -1:
+      count = len(item)
+      if count != expected_items and count >= 1 and count <= 4 and 'metric-value' in item:
+        # Events that generate >1 metric may have isolated metric
+        # values and possibly other prefixes like interval, core and
+        # aggregate-number.
+        pass
+      elif count != expected_items:
+        raise RuntimeError(f'wrong number of fields. counted {count} expected {expected_items}'
+                           f' in \'{item}\'')
     for key, value in item.items():
       if key not in checks:
         raise RuntimeError(f'Unexpected key: key={key} value={value}')
@@ -82,11 +79,11 @@ def check_json_output(expected_items):
 
 try:
   if args.no_args or args.system_wide or args.event:
-    expected_items = 6
-  elif args.interval or args.per_thread or args.system_wide_no_aggr:
     expected_items = 7
-  elif args.per_core or args.per_socket or args.per_node or args.per_die:
+  elif args.interval or args.per_thread or args.system_wide_no_aggr:
     expected_items = 8
+  elif args.per_core or args.per_socket or args.per_node or args.per_die:
+    expected_items = 9
   else:
     # If no option is specified, don't check the number of items.
     expected_items = -1