Re: [PATCH] perf events, x86: Add SandyBridgestalled-cycles-frontend/backend events

[Lin Ming]

On Fri, 2011-05-06 at 15:38 +0800, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> * Lin Ming <ming.m.lin@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > Extend the Intel SandyBridge PMU driver with definitions
> > for generic front-end and back-end stall events.
> > 
> > ( As commit 3011203 says, these are only approximations. )
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Lin Ming <ming.m.lin@xxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> >  arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_intel.c |    6 ++++++
> >  1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_intel.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_intel.c
> > index c1ec7a5..61cbf48 100644
> > --- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_intel.c
> > +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_intel.c
> > @@ -1485,6 +1485,12 @@ static __init int intel_pmu_init(void)
> >  
> >  		x86_pmu.event_constraints = intel_snb_event_constraints;
> >  		x86_pmu.pebs_constraints = intel_snb_pebs_events;
> > +
> > +		/* UOPS_ISSUED.ANY,c=1,i=1 to count stall cycles */
> > +		intel_perfmon_event_map[PERF_COUNT_HW_STALLED_CYCLES_FRONTEND] = 0x180010e;
> > +		/* UOPS_DISPATCHED.THREAD,c=1,i=1 to count stall cycles*/
> > +		intel_perfmon_event_map[PERF_COUNT_HW_STALLED_CYCLES_BACKEND] = 0x18001b1;
> > +
> 
> Nice!
> 
> Could you check Intel Atom perhaps as well, does it have any useful event to 
> approximate this?

OK, let me check.

> 
> Thanks,
> 
> 	Ingo


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