linux-kernel - [PATCH] perf events, x86: Add SandyBridge stalled-cycles-frontend/backend events

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Message-Id: <1304666042-17577-1-git-send-email-ming.m.lin@intel.com>
Date:	Fri,  6 May 2011 07:14:02 +0000
From:	Lin Ming <ming.m.lin@...el.com>
To:	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Cc:	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH] perf events, x86: Add SandyBridge stalled-cycles-frontend/backend events

Extend the Intel SandyBridge PMU driver with definitions
for generic front-end and back-end stall events.

( As commit 3011203 says, these are only approximations. )

Signed-off-by: Lin Ming <ming.m.lin@...el.com>
---
 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_intel.c |    6 ++++++
 1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_intel.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_intel.c
index c1ec7a5..61cbf48 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_intel.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_intel.c
@@ -1485,6 +1485,12 @@ static __init int intel_pmu_init(void)
 
 		x86_pmu.event_constraints = intel_snb_event_constraints;
 		x86_pmu.pebs_constraints = intel_snb_pebs_events;
+
+		/* UOPS_ISSUED.ANY,c=1,i=1 to count stall cycles */
+		intel_perfmon_event_map[PERF_COUNT_HW_STALLED_CYCLES_FRONTEND] = 0x180010e;
+		/* UOPS_DISPATCHED.THREAD,c=1,i=1 to count stall cycles*/
+		intel_perfmon_event_map[PERF_COUNT_HW_STALLED_CYCLES_BACKEND] = 0x18001b1;
+
 		pr_cont("SandyBridge events, ");
 		break;
 
-- 
1.7.4.4

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