linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] perf intel-pt: Synthesize cycle events

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Date:   Tue, 15 Mar 2022 11:16:26 +0100
From:   "Steinar H. Gunderson" <sesse@...gle.com>
To:     Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@...el.com>
Cc:     Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
        Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...nel.org>,
        Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@...ux.intel.com>,
        Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...hat.com>,
        Namhyung Kim <namhyung@...nel.org>,
        linux-perf-users@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] perf intel-pt: Synthesize cycle events

On Mon, Mar 14, 2022 at 06:24:19PM +0200, Adrian Hunter wrote:
> Perhaps changing it something like below.  What do you think?

I think the structure looks good, but I'm not sure about updating
e.g. ptq->last_cy_insn_cnt in both functions? Does that make sense?

I ran this and found something strange: I've started getting some hits
(very small amounts, e.g. 0.14%) on instructions that are not branches.
How can that happen?

/* Steinar */