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<title>linux-toradex.git/tools/perf/builtin-stat.c, branch v3.0.63</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<title>perf stat: Add more cache-miss percentage printouts</title>
<updated>2011-05-19T12:30:50+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ingo Molnar</name>
<email>mingo@elte.hu</email>
</author>
<published>2011-05-19T12:01:42+00:00</published>
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Print out the cache-miss percentage as well if the cache refs were
collected, for all the generic cache event types.

Before:

   11,103,723,230 dTLB-loads                #  622.471 M/sec                    ( +-  0.30% )
       87,065,337 dTLB-load-misses          #    4.881 M/sec                    ( +-  0.90% )

After:

   11,353,713,242 dTLB-loads                #  626.020 M/sec                    ( +-  0.35% )
      113,393,472 dTLB-load-misses          #    1.00% of all dTLB cache hits   ( +-  0.49% )

Also ASCII color highlight too high percentages, them when it's executed on the console.

Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl&gt;
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;fweisbec@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Mike Galbraith &lt;efault@gmx.de&gt;
Cc: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-lkhwxsevdbd9a8nymx0vxc3y@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
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Print out the cache-miss percentage as well if the cache refs were
collected, for all the generic cache event types.

Before:

   11,103,723,230 dTLB-loads                #  622.471 M/sec                    ( +-  0.30% )
       87,065,337 dTLB-load-misses          #    4.881 M/sec                    ( +-  0.90% )

After:

   11,353,713,242 dTLB-loads                #  626.020 M/sec                    ( +-  0.35% )
      113,393,472 dTLB-load-misses          #    1.00% of all dTLB cache hits   ( +-  0.49% )

Also ASCII color highlight too high percentages, them when it's executed on the console.

Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl&gt;
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;fweisbec@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Mike Galbraith &lt;efault@gmx.de&gt;
Cc: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-lkhwxsevdbd9a8nymx0vxc3y@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>perf stat: Add -d -d and -d -d -d options to show more CPU events</title>
<updated>2011-05-19T12:29:51+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ingo Molnar</name>
<email>mingo@elte.hu</email>
</author>
<published>2011-05-19T11:30:56+00:00</published>
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Print even more detailed statistics if requested via perf stat -d:

       -d:          detailed events, L1 and LLC data cache
    -d -d:     more detailed events, dTLB and iTLB events
 -d -d -d:     very detailed events, adding prefetch events

Full output looks like this now:

 Performance counter stats for '/home/mingo/hackbench 10' (5 runs):

       1703.674707 task-clock                #    8.709 CPUs utilized            ( +-  4.19% )
            49,068 context-switches          #    0.029 M/sec                    ( +- 16.66% )
             8,303 CPU-migrations            #    0.005 M/sec                    ( +- 24.90% )
            17,397 page-faults               #    0.010 M/sec                    ( +-  0.46% )
     2,345,389,239 cycles                    #    1.377 GHz                      ( +-  4.61% ) [55.90%]
     1,884,503,527 stalled-cycles-frontend   #   80.35% frontend cycles idle     ( +-  5.67% ) [50.39%]
       743,919,737 stalled-cycles-backend    #   31.72% backend  cycles idle     ( +-  8.75% ) [49.91%]
     1,314,416,379 instructions              #    0.56  insns per cycle
                                             #    1.43  stalled cycles per insn  ( +-  2.53% ) [60.87%]
       272,592,567 branches                  #  160.003 M/sec                    ( +-  1.74% ) [56.56%]
         3,794,846 branch-misses             #    1.39% of all branches          ( +-  6.59% ) [58.50%]
       449,982,778 L1-dcache-loads           #  264.125 M/sec                    ( +-  2.47% ) [49.88%]
        22,404,961 L1-dcache-load-misses     #    4.98% of all L1-dcache hits    ( +-  6.08% ) [55.05%]
         6,204,750 LLC-loads                 #    3.642 M/sec                    ( +-  8.91% ) [43.75%]
         1,837,411 LLC-load-misses           #    1.078 M/sec                    ( +-  7.27% ) [12.07%]
       411,440,421 L1-icache-loads           #  241.502 M/sec                    ( +-  5.60% ) [36.52%]
        27,556,832 L1-icache-load-misses     #   16.175 M/sec                    ( +-  7.46% ) [46.72%]
       464,067,627 dTLB-loads                #  272.392 M/sec                    ( +-  4.46% ) [54.17%]
        10,765,648 dTLB-load-misses          #    6.319 M/sec                    ( +-  3.18% ) [48.68%]
     1,273,080,386 iTLB-loads                #  747.256 M/sec                    ( +-  3.38% ) [47.53%]
           117,481 iTLB-load-misses          #    0.069 M/sec                    ( +- 14.99% ) [47.01%]
         4,590,653 L1-dcache-prefetches      #    2.695 M/sec                    ( +-  4.49% ) [46.19%]
         1,712,660 L1-dcache-prefetch-misses #    1.005 M/sec                    ( +-  3.75% ) [44.82%]

        0.195622057  seconds time elapsed  ( +-  6.84% )

Also clean up the attribute construction code to be appending, and factor
it out into add_default_attributes().

Tweak the coverage percentage printout a bit, so that it's easier to view it
alongside the +- sttddev colum.

Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl&gt;
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;fweisbec@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Mike Galbraith &lt;efault@gmx.de&gt;
Cc: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-to3kgu04449s64062val8b62@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
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Print even more detailed statistics if requested via perf stat -d:

       -d:          detailed events, L1 and LLC data cache
    -d -d:     more detailed events, dTLB and iTLB events
 -d -d -d:     very detailed events, adding prefetch events

Full output looks like this now:

 Performance counter stats for '/home/mingo/hackbench 10' (5 runs):

       1703.674707 task-clock                #    8.709 CPUs utilized            ( +-  4.19% )
            49,068 context-switches          #    0.029 M/sec                    ( +- 16.66% )
             8,303 CPU-migrations            #    0.005 M/sec                    ( +- 24.90% )
            17,397 page-faults               #    0.010 M/sec                    ( +-  0.46% )
     2,345,389,239 cycles                    #    1.377 GHz                      ( +-  4.61% ) [55.90%]
     1,884,503,527 stalled-cycles-frontend   #   80.35% frontend cycles idle     ( +-  5.67% ) [50.39%]
       743,919,737 stalled-cycles-backend    #   31.72% backend  cycles idle     ( +-  8.75% ) [49.91%]
     1,314,416,379 instructions              #    0.56  insns per cycle
                                             #    1.43  stalled cycles per insn  ( +-  2.53% ) [60.87%]
       272,592,567 branches                  #  160.003 M/sec                    ( +-  1.74% ) [56.56%]
         3,794,846 branch-misses             #    1.39% of all branches          ( +-  6.59% ) [58.50%]
       449,982,778 L1-dcache-loads           #  264.125 M/sec                    ( +-  2.47% ) [49.88%]
        22,404,961 L1-dcache-load-misses     #    4.98% of all L1-dcache hits    ( +-  6.08% ) [55.05%]
         6,204,750 LLC-loads                 #    3.642 M/sec                    ( +-  8.91% ) [43.75%]
         1,837,411 LLC-load-misses           #    1.078 M/sec                    ( +-  7.27% ) [12.07%]
       411,440,421 L1-icache-loads           #  241.502 M/sec                    ( +-  5.60% ) [36.52%]
        27,556,832 L1-icache-load-misses     #   16.175 M/sec                    ( +-  7.46% ) [46.72%]
       464,067,627 dTLB-loads                #  272.392 M/sec                    ( +-  4.46% ) [54.17%]
        10,765,648 dTLB-load-misses          #    6.319 M/sec                    ( +-  3.18% ) [48.68%]
     1,273,080,386 iTLB-loads                #  747.256 M/sec                    ( +-  3.38% ) [47.53%]
           117,481 iTLB-load-misses          #    0.069 M/sec                    ( +- 14.99% ) [47.01%]
         4,590,653 L1-dcache-prefetches      #    2.695 M/sec                    ( +-  4.49% ) [46.19%]
         1,712,660 L1-dcache-prefetch-misses #    1.005 M/sec                    ( +-  3.75% ) [44.82%]

        0.195622057  seconds time elapsed  ( +-  6.84% )

Also clean up the attribute construction code to be appending, and factor
it out into add_default_attributes().

Tweak the coverage percentage printout a bit, so that it's easier to view it
alongside the +- sttddev colum.

Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl&gt;
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;fweisbec@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Mike Galbraith &lt;efault@gmx.de&gt;
Cc: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-to3kgu04449s64062val8b62@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>perf stat: Tell user about unsupported events in the list</title>
<updated>2011-04-29T22:18:14+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Ahern</name>
<email>dsahern@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2011-04-29T22:04:15+00:00</published>
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Similar to perf-record, tell user about unsupported events
that will not be counted if invoked in verbose mode.

e.g.,

 $ perf stat -e dTLB-prefetch-misses -v -- sleep 1
 dTLB-prefetch-misses event is not supported by the kernel.
 dTLB-prefetch-misses: 0 0 0

 Performance counter stats for 'sleep 1':

     &lt;not counted&gt; dTLB-prefetch-misses

        1.001884783  seconds time elapsed

Signed-off-by: David Ahern &lt;dsahern@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl&gt;
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;fweisbec@gmail.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1304114655-10600-1-git-send-email-dsahern@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
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<pre>
Similar to perf-record, tell user about unsupported events
that will not be counted if invoked in verbose mode.

e.g.,

 $ perf stat -e dTLB-prefetch-misses -v -- sleep 1
 dTLB-prefetch-misses event is not supported by the kernel.
 dTLB-prefetch-misses: 0 0 0

 Performance counter stats for 'sleep 1':

     &lt;not counted&gt; dTLB-prefetch-misses

        1.001884783  seconds time elapsed

Signed-off-by: David Ahern &lt;dsahern@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl&gt;
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;fweisbec@gmail.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1304114655-10600-1-git-send-email-dsahern@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>perf stat: Fail softly on unsupported events</title>
<updated>2011-04-29T14:22:33+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ingo Molnar</name>
<email>mingo@elte.hu</email>
</author>
<published>2011-04-29T14:11:03+00:00</published>
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David Ahern reported this perf stat failure:

&gt; # /tmp/build-perf/perf stat -- sleep 1
&gt;   Error: stalled-cycles-frontend event is not supported.
&gt;   Fatal: Not all events could be opened.
&gt;
&gt; This is a Dell R410 with an E5620 processor.

Fail in a softer fashion on unknown/unsupported events.

Reported-by: David Ahern &lt;dsahern@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl&gt;
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;fweisbec@gmail.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-7y40wib8n006io7hjpn1dsrm@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
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David Ahern reported this perf stat failure:

&gt; # /tmp/build-perf/perf stat -- sleep 1
&gt;   Error: stalled-cycles-frontend event is not supported.
&gt;   Fatal: Not all events could be opened.
&gt;
&gt; This is a Dell R410 with an E5620 processor.

Fail in a softer fashion on unknown/unsupported events.

Reported-by: David Ahern &lt;dsahern@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl&gt;
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;fweisbec@gmail.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-7y40wib8n006io7hjpn1dsrm@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>perf stat: Leave more room for percentages</title>
<updated>2011-04-29T14:06:09+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ingo Molnar</name>
<email>mingo@elte.hu</email>
</author>
<published>2011-04-30T07:03:15+00:00</published>
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Triple digit percentages do not fit otherwise.

Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl&gt;
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;fweisbec@gmail.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-7y40wib8n005io7hjpn1dsrm@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
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Triple digit percentages do not fit otherwise.

Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl&gt;
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;fweisbec@gmail.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-7y40wib8n005io7hjpn1dsrm@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>perf stat: Adjust stall cycles warning percentages</title>
<updated>2011-04-29T12:35:57+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ingo Molnar</name>
<email>mingo@elte.hu</email>
</author>
<published>2011-04-29T12:16:18+00:00</published>
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Adjust to color thresholds to better match the percentages seen in
real workloads. Both are now a bit more sensitive.

Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl&gt;
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;fweisbec@gmail.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-7y40wib8n004io7hjpn1dsrm@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
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Adjust to color thresholds to better match the percentages seen in
real workloads. Both are now a bit more sensitive.

Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl&gt;
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;fweisbec@gmail.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-7y40wib8n004io7hjpn1dsrm@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>perf stat: Analyze front-end and back-end stall counts</title>
<updated>2011-04-29T12:35:55+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ingo Molnar</name>
<email>mingo@elte.hu</email>
</author>
<published>2011-04-29T11:49:08+00:00</published>
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Sample output:

 Performance counter stats for './loop_1b':

        873.691065 task-clock               #    1.000 CPUs utilized
                 1 context-switches         #    0.000 M/sec
                 1 CPU-migrations           #    0.000 M/sec
                96 page-faults              #    0.000 M/sec
     2,012,637,222 cycles                   #    2.304 GHz                      (66.58%)
     1,001,397,911 stalled-cycles-frontend  #   49.76% frontend cycles idle     (66.58%)
         7,523,398 stalled-cycles-backend   #    0.37%  backend cycles idle     (66.76%)
     2,004,551,046 instructions             #    1.00  insns per cycle
                                            #    0.50  stalled cycles per insn  (66.80%)
     1,001,304,992 branches                 # 1146.063 M/sec                    (66.76%)
            39,453 branch-misses            #    0.00% of all branches          (66.64%)

        0.874046121  seconds time elapsed

Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl&gt;
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;fweisbec@gmail.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-7y40wib8n003io7hjpn1dsrm@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
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Sample output:

 Performance counter stats for './loop_1b':

        873.691065 task-clock               #    1.000 CPUs utilized
                 1 context-switches         #    0.000 M/sec
                 1 CPU-migrations           #    0.000 M/sec
                96 page-faults              #    0.000 M/sec
     2,012,637,222 cycles                   #    2.304 GHz                      (66.58%)
     1,001,397,911 stalled-cycles-frontend  #   49.76% frontend cycles idle     (66.58%)
         7,523,398 stalled-cycles-backend   #    0.37%  backend cycles idle     (66.76%)
     2,004,551,046 instructions             #    1.00  insns per cycle
                                            #    0.50  stalled cycles per insn  (66.80%)
     1,001,304,992 branches                 # 1146.063 M/sec                    (66.76%)
            39,453 branch-misses            #    0.00% of all branches          (66.64%)

        0.874046121  seconds time elapsed

Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl&gt;
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;fweisbec@gmail.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-7y40wib8n003io7hjpn1dsrm@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>perf tools: Add front-end and back-end stalled cycles support</title>
<updated>2011-04-29T12:35:49+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ingo Molnar</name>
<email>mingo@elte.hu</email>
</author>
<published>2011-04-29T12:41:28+00:00</published>
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Update perf tooling to deal with front-end and back-end stalled cycles events.

Add both the default 'perf stat' output.

Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl&gt;
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;fweisbec@gmail.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-7y40wib8n002io7hjpn1dsrm@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
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Update perf tooling to deal with front-end and back-end stalled cycles events.

Add both the default 'perf stat' output.

Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl&gt;
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;fweisbec@gmail.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-7y40wib8n002io7hjpn1dsrm@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
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<title>perf stat: Fix compatibility behavior</title>
<updated>2011-04-28T06:48:42+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ingo Molnar</name>
<email>mingo@elte.hu</email>
</author>
<published>2011-04-28T06:48:42+00:00</published>
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Instead of failing on an unknown event, when new perf stat is run on
older kernels:

  $ ./perf stat true
  Error: open_counter returned with 22 (Invalid argument). /bin/dmesg
  may provide additional information.

  Fatal: Not all events could be opened.

Just ignore EINVAL and ENOSYS, we'll print the results as not counted:

 Performance counter stats for 'true':

          0.239483 task-clock               #    0.493 CPUs utilized
                 0 context-switches         #    0.000 M/sec
                 0 CPU-migrations           #    0.000 M/sec
                86 page-faults              #    0.359 M/sec
           704,766 cycles                   #    2.943 GHz
     &lt;not counted&gt; stalled-cycles
           381,961 instructions             #    0.54  insns per cycle
            69,626 branches                 #  290.735 M/sec
             4,594 branch-misses            #    6.60% of all branches

        0.000485883  seconds time elapsed

Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl&gt;
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;fweisbec@gmail.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-7y40wib8n1eqio5hjpn3dsrm@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
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Instead of failing on an unknown event, when new perf stat is run on
older kernels:

  $ ./perf stat true
  Error: open_counter returned with 22 (Invalid argument). /bin/dmesg
  may provide additional information.

  Fatal: Not all events could be opened.

Just ignore EINVAL and ENOSYS, we'll print the results as not counted:

 Performance counter stats for 'true':

          0.239483 task-clock               #    0.493 CPUs utilized
                 0 context-switches         #    0.000 M/sec
                 0 CPU-migrations           #    0.000 M/sec
                86 page-faults              #    0.359 M/sec
           704,766 cycles                   #    2.943 GHz
     &lt;not counted&gt; stalled-cycles
           381,961 instructions             #    0.54  insns per cycle
            69,626 branches                 #  290.735 M/sec
             4,594 branch-misses            #    6.60% of all branches

        0.000485883  seconds time elapsed

Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl&gt;
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;fweisbec@gmail.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-7y40wib8n1eqio5hjpn3dsrm@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
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<entry>
<title>perf stat: Add --sync/-S option</title>
<updated>2011-04-28T06:39:39+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ingo Molnar</name>
<email>mingo@elte.hu</email>
</author>
<published>2011-04-28T16:17:11+00:00</published>
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--sync will tell perf stat to run sync() before starting a command.

This allows IO-heavy tests to be used with --repeat, without one
iteration impacting the other.

Elapsed time will stabilize for example:

  before:        3.971525714  seconds time elapsed  ( +-  8.56% )
  after:         3.211098537  seconds time elapsed  ( +-  1.52% )

So measurements will be more accurate.

Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl&gt;
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;fweisbec@gmail.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-7y40wib8n1eqio7hjpn1dsrm@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
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--sync will tell perf stat to run sync() before starting a command.

This allows IO-heavy tests to be used with --repeat, without one
iteration impacting the other.

Elapsed time will stabilize for example:

  before:        3.971525714  seconds time elapsed  ( +-  8.56% )
  after:         3.211098537  seconds time elapsed  ( +-  1.52% )

So measurements will be more accurate.

Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl&gt;
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;fweisbec@gmail.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-7y40wib8n1eqio7hjpn1dsrm@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
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