Re: [PATCH] perf stat: Add support for s390 transaction counters

[Thomas-Mich Richter]

On 03/13/2018 04:23 AM, Andi Kleen wrote:
> Thomas Richter <tmricht@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> 
>> Right now there is only hard coded support for x86.
> 
> That's not true. There is support for generic transaction events in perf.
> 
> As far as I can tell your events would map 1:1 to the generic tx-* events.
> 
> -Andi
> 

I might be wrong, but when I look at function add_default_attributes()
in file buildin-stat.c the string variables transaction_attrs
and transaction_limited_attrs are used when flag T is specified on command line:

/* Default events used for perf stat -T */
static const char *transaction_attrs = {
        "task-clock,"
        "{"
        "instructions,"
        "cycles,"
        "cpu/cycles-t/,"
        "cpu/tx-start/,"
        "cpu/el-start/,"
        "cpu/cycles-ct/"
        "}"
};

These PMU events show up on my x86 notebook but no on the s390.
That's why I came to this conclusion. I have not tried other architectures.
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