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perf stat: clarify unsupported events from uncounted events
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perf stat continues running even if the event list contains counters
that are not supported. The resulting output then contains <not counted>
for those events which gets confusing as to which events are supported,
but not counted and which are not supported.

Before:

perf stat -ddd -- sleep 1

      Performance counter stats for 'sleep 1':

          0.571283 task-clock                #    0.001 CPUs utilized
                 1 context-switches          #    0.002 M/sec
                 0 CPU-migrations            #    0.000 M/sec
               157 page-faults               #    0.275 M/sec
         1,037,707 cycles                    #    1.816 GHz
     <not counted> stalled-cycles-frontend
     <not counted> stalled-cycles-backend
           654,499 instructions              #    0.63  insns per cycle
           136,129 branches                  #  238.286 M/sec
     <not counted> branch-misses
     <not counted> L1-dcache-loads
     <not counted> L1-dcache-load-misses
     <not counted> LLC-loads
     <not counted> LLC-load-misses
     <not counted> L1-icache-loads
     <not counted> L1-icache-load-misses
     <not counted> dTLB-loads
     <not counted> dTLB-load-misses
     <not counted> iTLB-loads
     <not counted> iTLB-load-misses
     <not counted> L1-dcache-prefetches
     <not counted> L1-dcache-prefetch-misses

       1.001004836 seconds time elapsed

After:

perf stat -ddd -- sleep 1

 Performance counter stats for 'sleep 1':

          1.350326 task-clock                #    0.001 CPUs utilized
                 2 context-switches          #    0.001 M/sec
                 0 CPU-migrations            #    0.000 M/sec
               157 page-faults               #    0.116 M/sec
            11,986 cycles                    #    0.009 GHz
   <not supported> stalled-cycles-frontend
   <not supported> stalled-cycles-backend
           496,986 instructions              #   41.46  insns per cycle
           138,065 branches                  #  102.246 M/sec
             7,245 branch-misses             #    5.25% of all branches
     <not counted> L1-dcache-loads
     <not counted> L1-dcache-load-misses
     <not counted> LLC-loads
     <not counted> LLC-load-misses
     <not counted> L1-icache-loads
     <not counted> L1-icache-load-misses
     <not counted> dTLB-loads
     <not counted> dTLB-load-misses
     <not counted> iTLB-loads
     <not counted> iTLB-load-misses
     <not counted> L1-dcache-prefetches
   <not supported> L1-dcache-prefetch-misses

       1.002397333 seconds time elapsed

v1->v2:
changed supported type from int to bool

v2->v3
fixed vertical alignment of new struct element

Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1306767359-13221-1-git-send-email-dsahern@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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David Ahern authored and Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo committed Jun 2, 2011
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9 changes: 7 additions & 2 deletions tools/perf/builtin-stat.c
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Expand Up @@ -61,6 +61,8 @@
#include <locale.h>

#define DEFAULT_SEPARATOR " "
#define CNTR_NOT_SUPPORTED "<not supported>"
#define CNTR_NOT_COUNTED "<not counted>"

static struct perf_event_attr default_attrs[] = {

Expand Down Expand Up @@ -448,6 +450,7 @@ static int run_perf_stat(int argc __used, const char **argv)
if (verbose)
ui__warning("%s event is not supported by the kernel.\n",
event_name(counter));
counter->supported = false;
continue;
}

Expand All @@ -466,6 +469,7 @@ static int run_perf_stat(int argc __used, const char **argv)
die("Not all events could be opened.\n");
return -1;
}
counter->supported = true;
}

if (perf_evlist__set_filters(evsel_list)) {
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -861,7 +865,7 @@ static void print_counter_aggr(struct perf_evsel *counter)
if (scaled == -1) {
fprintf(stderr, "%*s%s%*s",
csv_output ? 0 : 18,
"<not counted>",
counter->supported ? CNTR_NOT_COUNTED : CNTR_NOT_SUPPORTED,
csv_sep,
csv_output ? 0 : -24,
event_name(counter));
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -914,7 +918,8 @@ static void print_counter(struct perf_evsel *counter)
csv_output ? 0 : -4,
evsel_list->cpus->map[cpu], csv_sep,
csv_output ? 0 : 18,
"<not counted>", csv_sep,
counter->supported ? CNTR_NOT_COUNTED : CNTR_NOT_SUPPORTED,
csv_sep,
csv_output ? 0 : -24,
event_name(counter));

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1 change: 1 addition & 0 deletions tools/perf/util/evsel.h
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Expand Up @@ -61,6 +61,7 @@ struct perf_evsel {
off_t id_offset;
};
struct cgroup_sel *cgrp;
bool supported;
};

struct cpu_map;
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