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authorAndi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>2013-08-21 16:47:26 -0700
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>2013-10-04 10:06:07 +0200
commit4cabc3d1cb6a46f581a2628d1d11c483d5f300e5 (patch)
tree5daa1d88dd0cfa62433f7d6149f5f96c6a3fc33d /tools/perf/Documentation
parent723478c8a471403c53cf144999701f6e0c4bbd11 (diff)
tools/perf/stat: Add perf stat --transaction
Add support to perf stat to print the basic transactional execution statistics: Total cycles, Cycles in Transaction, Cycles in aborted transsactions using the in_tx and in_tx_checkpoint qualifiers. Transaction Starts and Elision Starts, to compute the average transaction length. This is a reasonable overview over the success of the transactions. Also support architectures that have a transaction aborted cycles counter like POWER8. Since that is awkward to handle in the kernel abstract handle both cases here. Enable with a new --transaction / -T option. This requires measuring these events in a group, since they depend on each other. This is implemented by using TM sysfs events exported by the kernel Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Acked-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1377128846-977-5-git-send-email-andi@firstfloor.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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@@ -137,6 +137,11 @@ core number and the number of online logical processors on that physical process
After starting the program, wait msecs before measuring. This is useful to
filter out the startup phase of the program, which is often very different.
+-T::
+--transaction::
+
+Print statistics of transactional execution if supported.
+
EXAMPLES
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