From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754234Ab1D1HAb (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Apr 2011 03:00:31 -0400 Received: from hera.kernel.org ([140.211.167.34]:39794 "EHLO hera.kernel.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753957Ab1D1HAa (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Apr 2011 03:00:30 -0400 Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2011 06:54:56 GMT From: tip-bot for Ingo Molnar Message-ID: Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, acme@redhat.com, hpa@zytor.com, mingo@redhat.com, a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl, fweisbec@gmail.com, tglx@linutronix.de, mingo@elte.hu Reply-To: mingo@redhat.com, hpa@zytor.com, acme@redhat.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, fweisbec@gmail.com, a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl, tglx@linutronix.de, mingo@elte.hu To: linux-tip-commits@vger.kernel.org Subject: [tip:perf/stat] perf event, x86: Use better stalled cycles metric Git-Commit-ID: 8a850cadca0e387c87a0911a61e99fd66aeb57ec X-Mailer: tip-git-log-daemon Robot-ID: Robot-Unsubscribe: Contact to get blacklisted from these emails MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Disposition: inline X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.2.3 (hera.kernel.org [127.0.0.1]); Thu, 28 Apr 2011 06:54:57 +0000 (UTC) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Commit-ID: 8a850cadca0e387c87a0911a61e99fd66aeb57ec Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/8a850cadca0e387c87a0911a61e99fd66aeb57ec Author: Ingo Molnar AuthorDate: Thu, 28 Apr 2011 11:16:44 +0200 Committer: Ingo Molnar CommitDate: Thu, 28 Apr 2011 08:39:33 +0200 perf event, x86: Use better stalled cycles metric 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 Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Cc: Frederic Weisbecker Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-7y40wib8n1eqio7hjpn2dsrm@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_intel.c | 4 ++-- 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_intel.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_intel.c index 067a48b..1ea9422 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_intel.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_intel.c @@ -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) { /*