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DateFri, 27 May 2011 10:36:07 -0600
FromDavid Ahern <>
SubjectRe: perf: h/w counters not counted and no error/info reported to user


On 05/27/2011 09:04 AM, David Ahern wrote:
> How is the <not counted> supposed to be interpreted?
>
> Also, back to the 'perf stat -- sleep 1' example: If I run it with
> individual -e <event> args I get values -- up to 3. Sure sleep is a
> simple program, but some counter value comes out. What's magical about 3?

Ok, I got it now. On some occasions for simple programs -- like sleep 1
-- the counter reads show:

cycles: 0 1066485 0

While the counter value is non-0, the time enabled and running values
are 0 and those latter two are used by stat to say "not-counted".

Unsupported events have 0's across the board. I'm working on a patch to
change <not counted> to <not supported> for events marked as unsupported.

David


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