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From: Dennis Gnad <dennis.gnad@kit.edu>
Subject: Re: Understanding timestamps in perf.data
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 2015 11:50:13 +0200
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On 02.09.2015 21:23, Andi Kleen wrote:
> David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> writes:
>> The counter values are not relevant for profiling. They are programmed
>> to rollover and generate an NMI which causes the sample to be taken.
> Actually it's relevent if you use adaptive frequency mode
> (-F or default, not using -c) because it varies then.
>
> The count values are reported by default in perf script.
>
> -Andi
Was this only more recently added to perf? I can't see it for kernel 3.16.