Re: [tip:perfcounters/core] perf_counter: kerneltop: update to newABI

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Thu Apr 02 2009 - 14:12:39 EST



* Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinder@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Thu, 2009-04-02 at 19:05 +0530, Jaswinder Singh Rajput wrote:
> > On Thu, 2009-04-02 at 12:03 +0000, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > > Commit-ID: 373b153677f26a263ef297d77a5e045a31f6486c
> > > Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/373b153677f26a263ef297d77a5e045a31f6486c
> > > Author: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@xxxxxxxxx>
> > > AuthorDate: Thu, 2 Apr 2009 11:12:02 +0200
> > > Committer: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx>
> > > CommitDate: Thu, 2 Apr 2009 13:53:00 +0200
> > >
> > > perf_counter: kerneltop: update to new ABI
> > >
> > > Update to reflect the new record_type ABI changes.
> > >
> >
> > perfstat is still having many issues:
> >
> > 1. 0:6: bus-cycles is not valid for AMD, so it fails
> >
> > 2. ./perfstat -e 0:1,0:2,0:3,0:4,0:5,0:6 ls
> > can be replaced by ./perfstat -e 0:* ls
> >
> > 3. Similarly ./perfstat -e 1:1,1:2,1:3,1:4,1:5,1:6 ls
> > can be replaced by ./perfstat -e 1:* ls
> >
> > 4. All events can be replaced by ./perfstat -e * ls
> >
>
> 5. This command is invalid:
> Sample output:
>
> $ ./perfstat -e 1 -e 3 -e 5 ls -lR /usr/include/ >/dev/null

yes, this should be fixed in perfstat: '-e 1' should be accepted as
'-e 0:1'. Patches welcome.

Ingo
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