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authorIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2011-04-24 08:18:31 +0200
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2011-04-26 20:04:53 +0200
commit94403f8863d0d1d2005291b2ef0719c2534aa303 (patch)
treeb0c8d9cf3ce49bf9faadcf5564e9996d0090b5c8 /tools/perf
parent7bd5fafeb414cf00deee32c82834f8bf1426b9ac (diff)
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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>
Diffstat (limited to 'tools/perf')
-rw-r--r--tools/perf/util/parse-events.c1
-rw-r--r--tools/perf/util/python.c1
2 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/parse-events.c b/tools/perf/util/parse-events.c
index 952b4ae3d954..1869e4c646db 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/parse-events.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/parse-events.c
@@ -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", "" },
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/python.c b/tools/perf/util/python.c
index f5e38451fdc5..406f613ee619 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/python.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/python.c
@@ -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 },