perf events: Add stalled cycles generic event - PERF_COUNT_HW_STALLED_CYCLES

The new PERF_COUNT_HW_STALLED_CYCLES event tries to approximate
cycles the CPU does nothing useful, because it is stalled on a
cache-miss or some other condition.

Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Acked-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-fue11vymwqsoo5to72jxxjyl@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Ingo Molnar 2011-04-24 08:18:31 +02:00
parent 7bd5fafeb4
commit 94403f8863
4 changed files with 6 additions and 0 deletions

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@ -1413,6 +1413,9 @@ static __init int intel_pmu_init(void)
x86_pmu.enable_all = intel_pmu_nhm_enable_all;
x86_pmu.extra_regs = intel_nehalem_extra_regs;
/* Install the stalled-cycles event: 0xff: All reasons, 0xa2: Resource stalls */
intel_perfmon_event_map[PERF_COUNT_HW_STALLED_CYCLES] = 0xffa2;
if (ebx & 0x40) {
/*
* Erratum AAJ80 detected, we work it around by using

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@ -52,6 +52,7 @@ enum perf_hw_id {
PERF_COUNT_HW_BRANCH_INSTRUCTIONS = 4,
PERF_COUNT_HW_BRANCH_MISSES = 5,
PERF_COUNT_HW_BUS_CYCLES = 6,
PERF_COUNT_HW_STALLED_CYCLES = 7,
PERF_COUNT_HW_MAX, /* non-ABI */
};

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@ -38,6 +38,7 @@ static struct event_symbol event_symbols[] = {
{ CHW(BRANCH_INSTRUCTIONS), "branch-instructions", "branches" },
{ CHW(BRANCH_MISSES), "branch-misses", "" },
{ CHW(BUS_CYCLES), "bus-cycles", "" },
{ CHW(STALLED_CYCLES), "stalled-cycles", "" },
{ CSW(CPU_CLOCK), "cpu-clock", "" },
{ CSW(TASK_CLOCK), "task-clock", "" },

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@ -798,6 +798,7 @@ static struct {
{ "COUNT_HW_BRANCH_INSTRUCTIONS", PERF_COUNT_HW_BRANCH_INSTRUCTIONS },
{ "COUNT_HW_BRANCH_MISSES", PERF_COUNT_HW_BRANCH_MISSES },
{ "COUNT_HW_BUS_CYCLES", PERF_COUNT_HW_BUS_CYCLES },
{ "COUNT_HW_STALLED_CYCLES", PERF_COUNT_HW_STALLED_CYCLES },
{ "COUNT_HW_CACHE_L1D", PERF_COUNT_HW_CACHE_L1D },
{ "COUNT_HW_CACHE_L1I", PERF_COUNT_HW_CACHE_L1I },
{ "COUNT_HW_CACHE_LL", PERF_COUNT_HW_CACHE_LL },