perf events: Add stalled cycles generic event - PERF_COUNT_HW_STALLED_CYCLES
The new PERF_COUNT_HW_STALLED_CYCLES event tries to approximate
cycles the CPU does nothing useful, because it is stalled on a
cache-miss or some other condition.
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Acked-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-fue11vymwqsoo5to72jxxjyl@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
diff --git a/include/linux/perf_event.h b/include/linux/perf_event.h
index ee9f1e7..ac636dd 100644
--- a/include/linux/perf_event.h
+++ b/include/linux/perf_event.h
@@ -52,6 +52,7 @@
PERF_COUNT_HW_BRANCH_INSTRUCTIONS = 4,
PERF_COUNT_HW_BRANCH_MISSES = 5,
PERF_COUNT_HW_BUS_CYCLES = 6,
+ PERF_COUNT_HW_STALLED_CYCLES = 7,
PERF_COUNT_HW_MAX, /* non-ABI */
};