[tip:perf/core] perf tools: Add support to dynamically get cacheline size

From: tip-bot for Don Zickus
Date: Thu Jun 12 2014 - 08:03:37 EST


Commit-ID: 2b1b71003ea809e619bd73e74dfc2a73069de66f
Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/2b1b71003ea809e619bd73e74dfc2a73069de66f
Author: Don Zickus <dzickus@xxxxxxxxxx>
AuthorDate: Fri, 30 May 2014 16:10:05 -0400
Committer: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@xxxxxxxxxx>
CommitDate: Mon, 9 Jun 2014 13:34:48 +0200

perf tools: Add support to dynamically get cacheline size

Different arches may have different cacheline sizes. Look it up and set
a global variable for reference.

Signed-off-by: Don Zickus <dzickus@xxxxxxxxxx>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1401480605-97442-1-git-send-email-dzickus@xxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
tools/perf/perf.c | 1 +
tools/perf/util/util.c | 1 +
tools/perf/util/util.h | 1 +
3 files changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/tools/perf/perf.c b/tools/perf/perf.c
index 78f7b92..95c58fc 100644
--- a/tools/perf/perf.c
+++ b/tools/perf/perf.c
@@ -458,6 +458,7 @@ int main(int argc, const char **argv)

/* The page_size is placed in util object. */
page_size = sysconf(_SC_PAGE_SIZE);
+ cacheline_size = sysconf(_SC_LEVEL1_DCACHE_LINESIZE);

cmd = perf_extract_argv0_path(argv[0]);
if (!cmd)
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/util.c b/tools/perf/util/util.c
index 7fff6be..95aefa7 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/util.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/util.c
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@
* XXX We need to find a better place for these things...
*/
unsigned int page_size;
+int cacheline_size;

bool test_attr__enabled;

diff --git a/tools/perf/util/util.h b/tools/perf/util/util.h
index b03da44..6686436 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/util.h
+++ b/tools/perf/util/util.h
@@ -304,6 +304,7 @@ char *rtrim(char *s);
void dump_stack(void);

extern unsigned int page_size;
+extern int cacheline_size;

void get_term_dimensions(struct winsize *ws);

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