This event counts the number of reference core cpu cycles.
Reference means that the event increments at a constant rate which
is not subject to core CPU frequency adjustments. The event may
not count when the processor is in halted (low power) state.
As such, it may not be equivalent to wall clock time. However,
when the processor is not halted state, the event keeps
a constant correlation with wall clock time.
Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1323559734-3488-3-git-send-email-eranian@google.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
The problem is that when SAMPLE_PERIOD is not set, the kernel generates
a number of samples in proportion to an event's period. Number of these
samples may be too big and the kernel throttles all samples above a
defined limit.
E.g.: I want to trace when a process sleeps. I created a process which
sleeps for 1ms and for 4ms. perf got 100 events in both cases.
swapper 0 [000] 1141.371830: sched_stat_sleep: comm=foo pid=1801 delay=1386750 [ns]
swapper 0 [000] 1141.369444: sched_stat_sleep: comm=foo pid=1801 delay=4499585 [ns]
In the first case a kernel want to send 4499585 events and in the second
case it wants to send 1386750 events. perf-reports shows that process
sleeps in both places equal time.
Instead of this we can get only one sample with an attribute period. As
result we have less data transferring between kernel and user-space and
we avoid throttling of samples.
The patch "events: Don't divide events if it has field period" added a
kernel part of this functionality.
Acked-by: Arun Sharma <asharma@fb.com>
Cc: Arun Sharma <asharma@fb.com>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: devel@openvz.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1324391565-1369947-1-git-send-email-avagin@openvz.org
Signed-off-by: Andrew Vagin <avagin@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/sparc:
sparc32: Be less strict in matching %lo part of relocation.
sbus: convert drivers/sbus/char/* to use module_platform_driver()
bbc_i2c: Remove unneeded err variable
sparc: Use kmemdup rather than duplicating its implementation
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net:
ipv6: Check dest prefix length on original route not copied one in rt6_alloc_cow().
sch_gred: should not use GFP_KERNEL while holding a spinlock
ipip, sit: copy parms.name after register_netdevice
ipv6: Fix for adding multicast route for loopback device automatically.
ssb: fix init regression with SoCs
rtl8192{ce,cu,de,se}: avoid problems because of possible ERFOFF -> ERFSLEEP transition
mac80211: fix another race in aggregation start
fsl_pq_mdio: Clean up tbi address configuration
ppp: fix pptp double release_sock in pptp_bind()
net/fec: fix the use of pdev->id
ath9k: fix check for antenna diversity support
batman-adv: delete global entry in case of roaming
batman-adv: in case of roaming mark the client with TT_CLIENT_ROAM
Bluetooth: Correct version check in hci_setup
btusb: fix a memory leak in btusb_send_frame()
Bluetooth: bnep: Fix module reference
Bluetooth: cmtp: Fix module reference
Bluetooth: btmrvl: support Marvell Bluetooth device SD8797
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mason/linux-btrfs:
Btrfs: unplug every once and a while
Btrfs: deal with NULL srv_rsv in the delalloc inode reservation code
Btrfs: only set cache_generation if we setup the block group
Btrfs: don't panic if orphan item already exists
Btrfs: fix leaked space in truncate
Btrfs: fix how we do delalloc reservations and how we free reservations on error
Btrfs: deal with enospc from dirtying inodes properly
Btrfs: fix num_workers_starting bug and other bugs in async thread
BTRFS: Establish i_ops before calling d_instantiate
Btrfs: add a cond_resched() into the worker loop
Btrfs: fix ctime update of on-disk inode
btrfs: keep orphans for subvolume deletion
Btrfs: fix inaccurate available space on raid0 profile
Btrfs: fix wrong disk space information of the files
Btrfs: fix wrong i_size when truncating a file to a larger size
Btrfs: fix btrfs_end_bio to deal with write errors to a single mirror
* 'for-linus-3.2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mason/linux-btrfs:
btrfs: lower the dirty balance poll interval
* 'drm-intel-fixes' of git://people.freedesktop.org/~keithp/linux:
drm/i915/dp: Dither down to 6bpc if it makes the mode fit
drm/i915: enable semaphores on per-device defaults
drm/i915: don't set unpin_work if vblank_get fails
drm/i915: By default, enable RC6 on IVB and SNB when reasonable
iommu: Export intel_iommu_enabled to signal when iommu is in use
drm/i915/sdvo: Include LVDS panels for the IS_DIGITAL check
drm/i915: prevent division by zero when asking for chipset power
drm/i915: add PCH info to i915_capabilities
drm/i915: set the right SDVO transcoder for CPT
drm/i915: no-lvds quirk for ASUS AT5NM10T-I
drm/i915: Treat pre-gen4 backlight duty cycle value consistently
drm/i915: Hook up Ivybridge eDP
drm/i915: add multi-threaded forcewake support
Peter Zijlstra
Stephane Eranian
Ingo Molnar
Jiri Olsa
Namhyung Kim
Nelson Elhage
Robert Richter
Andrew Vagin
Linus Torvalds