Re: [PATCH v2 2/6] perf report: Caculate and return the branch counting in callchain

[Nilay Vaish]

On 19 October 2016 at 17:01, Jin Yao <yao.jin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> diff --git a/tools/perf/util/callchain.h b/tools/perf/util/callchain.h
> index 40ecf25..4f6bf6c 100644
> --- a/tools/perf/util/callchain.h
> +++ b/tools/perf/util/callchain.h
> @@ -115,6 +115,10 @@ struct callchain_list {
>                 bool            unfolded;
>                 bool            has_children;
>         };
> +       u64                     branch_count;
> +       u64                     predicted_count;
> +       u64                     abort_count;

Can you explain what abort count is?  It seems you are referring to
miss-speculated branches.  If that is the case, I would prefer that we
replace abort by miss_speculated or miss_predicted.

--
Nilay