Perf sched counters [Re: ARM A9 oprofile]

[Dmitry Antipov]

On 02/28/2012 05:27 PM, Ming Lei wrote:

> I am sure that several guys have tried the current omap4 pmu patch
> and make perf work well on pandaboard.

On a freshly booted panda board which is mostly idle:

root at linaro-developer:~# uptime
  14:44:36 up 1 min,  3 users,  load average: 0.17, 0.11, 0.05
root at linaro-developer:~# perf stat -a `perf list | grep kmem | awk '{printf ("-e %s ", $1)}'` sleep 1

  Performance counter stats for 'sleep 1':

                 55 kmem:kmalloc                                                 [99.99%]
                143 kmem:kmem_cache_alloc                                        [99.99%]
                  0 kmem:kmalloc_node                                            [99.99%]
                  0 kmem:kmem_cache_alloc_node                                   [99.99%]
                 29 kmem:kfree                                                   [99.99%]
                301 kmem:kmem_cache_free                                         [100.00%]
                 45 kmem:mm_page_free                                            [100.00%]
                 32 kmem:mm_page_free_batched                                    [100.00%]
                 35 kmem:mm_page_alloc                                           [100.00%]
                  1 kmem:mm_page_alloc_zone_locked                               [100.00%]
                  0 kmem:mm_page_pcpu_drain                                      [100.00%]
                  0 kmem:mm_page_alloc_extfrag

        1.022554950 seconds time elapsed

root at linaro-developer:~# perf stat -a `perf list | grep sched | awk '{printf ("-e %s ", $1)}'` sleep 1

  Performance counter stats for 'sleep 1':

                  0 sched:sched_kthread_stop                                     [99.98%]
                  0 sched:sched_kthread_stop_ret                                 [99.98%]
                 12 sched:sched_wakeup                                           [99.98%]
                  0 sched:sched_wakeup_new                                       [99.99%]
                 26 sched:sched_switch                                           [99.99%]
                  0 sched:sched_migrate_task                                     [99.99%]
                  1 sched:sched_process_free                                     [99.99%]
                  1 sched:sched_process_exit                                     [99.99%]
                  0 sched:sched_wait_task                                        [99.99%]
                  1 sched:sched_process_wait                                     [99.99%]
                  0 sched:sched_process_fork                                     [99.99%]
            4867991 sched:sched_stat_wait                                        [100.00%]
        10864556009 sched:sched_stat_sleep                                       [100.00%]
                  0 sched:sched_stat_iowait                                      [100.00%]
          940098109 sched:sched_stat_blocked                                     [100.00%]
          243187241 sched:sched_stat_runtime                                     [100.00%]
                  0 sched:sched_pi_setprio

        1.068707582 seconds time elapsed

No objections for kmem counters, but I'm pretty sure that some sched counters are bogus.

Dmitry