[PATCH 08/13] perf stats: fix divide by 0 in variance
From: David Ahern
Date: Thu May 09 2013 - 00:33:45 EST
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@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
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
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