perf tools: Make Power7 events available for perf
Power7 supports over 530 different perf events but only a small subset of these can be specified by name, for the remaining events, we must specify them by their raw code: perf stat -e r2003c <application> This patch makes all the POWER7 events available in sysfs. So we can instead specify these as: perf stat -e 'cpu/PM_CMPLU_STALL_DFU/' <application> where PM_CMPLU_STALL_DFU is the r2003c in previous example. Before this patch is applied, the size of power7-pmu.o is: $ size arch/powerpc/perf/power7-pmu.o text data bss dec hex filename 3073 2720 0 5793 16a1 arch/powerpc/perf/power7-pmu.o and after the patch is applied, it is: $ size arch/powerpc/perf/power7-pmu.o text data bss dec hex filename 15950 31112 0 47062 b7d6 arch/powerpc/perf/power7-pmu.o For the run time overhead, I use two scripts, one is "event_name.sh", which contains 50 event names, it looks like: # ./perf record -e 'cpu/PM_CMPLU_STALL_DFU/' -e ..... /bin/sleep 1 the other one is named "event_code.sh" which use corresponding events raw code instead of events names, it looks like: # ./perf record -e r2003c -e ...... /bin/sleep 1 below is the result. Using events name: [root@localhost perf]# time ./event_name.sh [ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ] [ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.002 MB perf.data (~102 samples) ] real 0m1.192s user 0m0.028s sys 0m0.106s Using events raw code: [root@localhost perf]# time ./event_code.sh [ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ] [ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.003 MB perf.data (~112 samples) ] real 0m1.198s user 0m0.028s sys 0m0.105s Signed-off-by: Runzhen Wang <runzhen@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au> Cc: icycoder@gmail.com Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org Cc: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Runzhen Wang <runzhew@clemson.edu> Cc: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1372407297-6996-3-git-send-email-runzhen@linux.vnet.ibm.comSigned-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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