Re: [RFC 00/10] perf: Add cputime events/metrics

[Andi Kleen]

> I had some issues with IDLE counter being miscounted due to stopping
> of the idle tick. I tried to solve it in this patch (it's part of the
> patchset):
>   perf/cputime: Don't stop idle tick if there's live cputime event
> 
> but I'm pretty sure it's wrong and there's better solution.

At least on intel we already have hardware counters for different idle
states. You just would need to add them and convert to the same
unit.

But of course it's still useful when this is not available.

> My current plan is now to read those counters in perf top/record/report
> to show (at least) the idle percentage for the current profile.

It's useful. Thanks for working on it. I was thinking about doing
something similar for some time.

-Andi