[PATCH 08/16] perf stats: fix divide by 0 in variance

David Ahern
2013-05-26T00:28:49Z

Number of samples needs to be greater 1 to have a variance.
Fixes nan% in perf-kvm-live output.

Signed-off-by: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@ghostprotocols.net>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Runzhen Wang <runzhen@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
---
tools/perf/util/stat.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/tools/perf/util/stat.c b/tools/perf/util/stat.c
index 2374212..7c59c28 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/stat.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/stat.c
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ double stddev_stats(struct stats *stats)
{
double variance, variance_mean;

- if (!stats->n)
+ if (stats->n < 2)
return 0.0;

variance = stats->M2 / (stats->n - 1);
--
1.7.10.1