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perf event, x86: Use better stalled cycles metric

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Use the UOPS_EXECUTED.*,c=1,i=1 event on Intel CPUs - it is a rather
good indicator of CPU execution stalls, more sensitive and more inclusive
than the 0xa2 resource stalls event (which does not count nearly as many
stall types).

Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-7y40wib8n1eqio7hjpn2dsrm@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Ingo Molnar 2011-04-28 11:16:44 +02:00
parent 9ceb1c3d1f
commit 8a850cadca
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@ -1413,8 +1413,8 @@ 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;
/* Install the stalled-cycles event: UOPS_EXECUTED.CORE_ACTIVE_CYCLES,c=1,i=1 */
intel_perfmon_event_map[PERF_COUNT_HW_STALLED_CYCLES] = 0x1803fb1;
if (ebx & 0x40) {
/*