linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH -tip] perf_counter tools: shorten names for events

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date:	Wed, 24 Jun 2009 04:29:52 +0530
From:	Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinder@...nel.org>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Cc:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH -tip] perf_counter tools: shorten names for events

On Wed, 2009-06-24 at 03:42 +0530, Jaswinder Singh Rajput wrote:

> > Note, branches are special - we dont really have 'branch loads', 
> > branches are executions. 'Branches' and 'Branch-misses' are the 
> > right term.
> > 
> > Do you agree?
> > 
> 
> Event we used for (BPU, READ, ACCESS) is 'branch instructions retired'
> 
> So 'branch loads' we mean 'branch instruction loaded and retired'
> 
> I like all of them : 'branch loads', 'branch retired' or 'branches'
> 
> Please let me know, which one is best option so that I can prepare the
> patch.
> 

Or if branches is special and following values are always invalid :

 (BPU, WRITE, ACCESS)
 (BPU, WRITE, MISS)
 (BPU, PREFETCH, ACCESS)
 (BPU, PREFTECH, MISS)

then can we move BPU to some other category from Hardware cache
counters.

Thanks,
--
JSR



--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/