Commit d3d1e86d authored by Ingo Molnar's avatar Ingo Molnar
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perf stat: Analyze front-end and back-end stall counts 

Sample output:

 Performance counter stats for './loop_1b':

        873.691065 task-clock               #    1.000 CPUs utilized
                 1 context-switches         #    0.000 M/sec
                 1 CPU-migrations           #    0.000 M/sec
                96 page-faults              #    0.000 M/sec
     2,012,637,222 cycles                   #    2.304 GHz                      (66.58%)
     1,001,397,911 stalled-cycles-frontend  #   49.76% frontend cycles idle     (66.58%)
         7,523,398 stalled-cycles-backend   #    0.37%  backend cycles idle     (66.76%)
     2,004,551,046 instructions             #    1.00  insns per cycle
                                            #    0.50  stalled cycles per insn  (66.80%)
     1,001,304,992 branches                 # 1146.063 M/sec                    (66.76%)
            39,453 branch-misses            #    0.00% of all branches          (66.64%)

        0.874046121  seconds time elapsed

Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-7y40wib8n003io7hjpn1dsrm@git.kernel.org


Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
parent 129c04cb

tools/perf/builtin-stat.c

+35 −6
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@@ -201,7 +201,8 @@ static double stddev_stats(struct stats *stats) 


struct stats			runtime_nsecs_stats[MAX_NR_CPUS];

struct stats			runtime_cycles_stats[MAX_NR_CPUS];

struct stats			runtime_stalled_cycles_stats[MAX_NR_CPUS];

struct stats			runtime_stalled_cycles_front_stats[MAX_NR_CPUS];

struct stats			runtime_stalled_cycles_back_stats[MAX_NR_CPUS];

struct stats			runtime_branches_stats[MAX_NR_CPUS];

struct stats			runtime_cacherefs_stats[MAX_NR_CPUS];

struct stats			runtime_l1_dcache_stats[MAX_NR_CPUS];
@@ -251,8 +252,10 @@ static void update_shadow_stats(struct perf_evsel *counter, u64 *count) 
		update_stats(&runtime_nsecs_stats[0], count[0]);

	else if (perf_evsel__match(counter, HARDWARE, HW_CPU_CYCLES))

		update_stats(&runtime_cycles_stats[0], count[0]);

	else if (perf_evsel__match(counter, HARDWARE, HW_STALLED_CYCLES_FRONTEND))

		update_stats(&runtime_stalled_cycles_front_stats[0], count[0]);

	else if (perf_evsel__match(counter, HARDWARE, HW_STALLED_CYCLES_BACKEND))

		update_stats(&runtime_stalled_cycles_stats[0], count[0]);

		update_stats(&runtime_stalled_cycles_back_stats[0], count[0]);

	else if (perf_evsel__match(counter, HARDWARE, HW_BRANCH_INSTRUCTIONS))

		update_stats(&runtime_branches_stats[0], count[0]);

	else if (perf_evsel__match(counter, HARDWARE, HW_CACHE_REFERENCES))
@@ -478,7 +481,30 @@ static void nsec_printout(int cpu, struct perf_evsel *evsel, double avg) 
		fprintf(stderr, " # %8.3f CPUs utilized          ", avg / avg_stats(&walltime_nsecs_stats));

}



static void print_stalled_cycles(int cpu, struct perf_evsel *evsel __used, double avg)

static void print_stalled_cycles_frontend(int cpu, struct perf_evsel *evsel __used, double avg)

{

	double total, ratio = 0.0;

	const char *color;



	total = avg_stats(&runtime_cycles_stats[cpu]);



	if (total)

		ratio = avg / total * 100.0;



	color = PERF_COLOR_NORMAL;

	if (ratio > 75.0)

		color = PERF_COLOR_RED;

	else if (ratio > 50.0)

		color = PERF_COLOR_MAGENTA;

	else if (ratio > 20.0)

		color = PERF_COLOR_YELLOW;



	fprintf(stderr, " #   ");

	color_fprintf(stderr, color, "%5.2f%%", ratio);

	fprintf(stderr, " frontend cycles idle   ");

}



static void print_stalled_cycles_backend(int cpu, struct perf_evsel *evsel __used, double avg)

{

	double total, ratio = 0.0;

	const char *color;
@@ -498,7 +524,7 @@ static void print_stalled_cycles(int cpu, struct perf_evsel *evsel __used, doubl 


	fprintf(stderr, " #   ");

	color_fprintf(stderr, color, "%5.2f%%", ratio);

	fprintf(stderr, " of all cycles are idle ");

	fprintf(stderr, "  backend cycles idle   ");

}



static void print_branch_misses(int cpu, struct perf_evsel *evsel __used, double avg)
@@ -583,7 +609,8 @@ static void abs_printout(int cpu, struct perf_evsel *evsel, double avg) 


		fprintf(stderr, " #    %4.2f  insns per cycle        ", ratio);



		total = avg_stats(&runtime_stalled_cycles_stats[cpu]);

		total = avg_stats(&runtime_stalled_cycles_front_stats[cpu]);

		total = max(total, avg_stats(&runtime_stalled_cycles_back_stats[cpu]));



		if (total && avg) {

			ratio = total / avg;
@@ -609,8 +636,10 @@ static void abs_printout(int cpu, struct perf_evsel *evsel, double avg) 


		fprintf(stderr, " # %8.3f %% of all cache refs    ", ratio);



	} else if (perf_evsel__match(evsel, HARDWARE, HW_STALLED_CYCLES_FRONTEND)) {

		print_stalled_cycles_frontend(cpu, evsel, avg);

	} else if (perf_evsel__match(evsel, HARDWARE, HW_STALLED_CYCLES_BACKEND)) {

		print_stalled_cycles(cpu, evsel, avg);

		print_stalled_cycles_backend(cpu, evsel, avg);

	} else if (perf_evsel__match(evsel, HARDWARE, HW_CPU_CYCLES)) {

		total = avg_stats(&runtime_nsecs_stats[cpu]);

tools/perf/util/parse-events.c

+4 −3
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@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ static struct event_symbol event_symbols[] = { 
#define PERF_EVENT_TYPE(config)		__PERF_EVENT_FIELD(config, TYPE)

#define PERF_EVENT_ID(config)		__PERF_EVENT_FIELD(config, EVENT)



static const char *hw_event_names[] = {

static const char *hw_event_names[PERF_COUNT_HW_MAX] = {

	"cycles",

	"instructions",

	"cache-references",
@@ -68,10 +68,11 @@ static const char *hw_event_names[] = { 
	"branches",

	"branch-misses",

	"bus-cycles",

	"stalled-cycles",

	"stalled-cycles-frontend",

	"stalled-cycles-backend",

};



static const char *sw_event_names[] = {

static const char *sw_event_names[PERF_COUNT_SW_MAX] = {

	"cpu-clock",

	"task-clock",

	"page-faults",

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