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SubjectRe: [PATCH 2/2] perf tool: don't print bogus data on -e cycles

* Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com> wrote:

> When only the cycles event is requested:
>
> $ perf stat -e cycles dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/null count=1000000
> 1000000+0 records in
> 1000000+0 records out
> 512000000 bytes (512 MB) copied, 0.26123 s, 2.0 GB/s
>
> Performance counter stats for 'dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/null count=1000000':
>
> 911,626,453 cycles # 0.000 GHz
>
> 0.262113350 seconds time elapsed
>
> The 0.000 GHz comment in the output is totally bogus and misleading. It
> happens because update_shadow_stats() doesn't touch runtime_nsecs_stats;
> it is only written when a requested counter matches a SW_TASK_CLOCK. In
> our case, since we have only requested HW_CPU_CYCLES,
> runtime_nsecs_stats is unavailable. So, omit printing the comment
> altogether.
>
> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@ghostprotocols.net>
> Signed-off-by: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
> ---
> tools/perf/builtin-stat.c | 9 ++++-----
> 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

Thanks,

Ingo


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