Thanks for your reply ,David Long. Can you give me url of the kernel version 3.4.19?Thanks.

2012/12/5 David Long dave.long@linaro.org

On 12/04/12 13:46, Scott Bambrough wrote:

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• Dave Long

On Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 3:37 AM, Peng Fan <xfan87@gmail.com mailto: xfan87@gmail.com> wrote:

I use the option `-v`, and I can see that the first number of
branches, instructions branch-misses and so on is zero.why?

root@android:/ # perf stat -v echo "linaro"
linaro
task-clock: 93902590 93902590 93902590

context-switches: 9 93902590 93902590

CPU-migrations: 0 93902590 93902590
page-faults: 104 93902590 93902590
cycles: 4284725 76202392 76202392
stalled-cycles-frontend: 0 76202392 76202392
stalled-cycles-backend: 0 76202392 76202392
instructions: 0 76202392 76202392
branches: 0 76202392 76202392
branch-misses: 0 76202392 76202392

 Performance counter stats for 'echo linaro':

         93.902590 task-clock                #    0.282 CPUs utilized
                 9 context-switches          #    0.000 M/sec
                 0 CPU-migrations            #    0.000 M/sec
               104 page-faults               #    0.001 M/sec
           4284725 cycles                    #    0.046 GHz
*                 0 stalled-cycles-frontend   #    0.00% frontend

cycles idle
                 0 stalled-cycles-backend    #    0.00% backend

cycles idle 0 instructions # 0.00 insns per cycle 0 branches # 0.000 M/sec 0 branch-misses # 0.00% of all branches *

       0.332550049 seconds time elapsed

Can anybody give me suggestions?How can I use perf to get the
value of hardware performance counter

Using a recent 3.4.19 kernel I am unable to reproduce your results:

context-switches: 0 8941650 8941650 CPU-migrations: 0 8941650 8941650 page-faults: 147 8941650 8941650 cycles: 2665204 8941650 8941650 stalled-cycles-frontend: 365973 8941650 8941650 stalled-cycles-backend: 1748465 8941650 8941650 instructions: 1368842 8941650 8941650 branches: 152838 8941650 8941650 branch-misses: 53924 8941650 8941650

Performance counter stats for 'echo linaro':

      8.941650 task-clock                #    0.740 CPUs utilized
             0 context-switches          #    0.000 K/sec
             0 CPU-migrations            #    0.000 K/sec
           147 page-faults               #    0.016 M/sec
       2665204 cycles                    #    0.298 GHz
        365973 stalled-cycles-frontend   #   13.73% frontend cycles

idle 1748465 stalled-cycles-backend # 65.60% backend cycles idle 1368842 instructions # 0.51 insns per cycle # 1.28 stalled cycles per insn 152838 branches # 17.093 M/sec 53924 branch-misses # 35.28% of all branches

   0.012084973 seconds time elapsed

Significant changes were made the the counter/event kernel code about the time of the release. I do not believe they made it in in time. Please try simply using a slightly more recent kernel.

-- David Long Kernel Engineer, TI Landing Team Linaro

Thanks. I use this command git checkout --track remotes/origin/tilt-3.4

Perf does give me the value of performance counter.But when execute the command perf stat -v echo "linaro" , context-switches is 0. Following is the full result. root@(none):/# ./perf stat -v echo "linaro" linaro task-clock: 1464844 1464844 1464844 context-switches: 0 1464844 1464844 CPU-migrations: 0 1464844 1464844 page-faults: 121 1464844 1464844 cycles: 1738255 1464844 1464844 stalled-cycles-frontend: 349665 1464844 1464844 stalled-cycles-backend: 1308413 1464844 1464844 instructions: 637447 1464844 1464844 branches: 62121 1464844 1464844 branch-misses: 31739 1464844 1464844

Performance counter stats for 'echo linaro':

1.464844 task-clock # 0.787 CPUs utilized * 0 context-switches # 0.000 M/sec 0 CPU-migrations # 0.000 M/sec * 121 page-faults # 0.083 M/sec 1738255 cycles # 1.187 GHz 349665 stalled-cycles-frontend # 20.12% frontend cycles idle 1308413 stalled-cycles-backend # 75.27% backend cycles idle 637447 instructions # 0.37 insns per cycle # 2.05 stalled cycles per insn 62121 branches # 42.408 M/sec 31739 branch-misses # 51.09% of all branches

0.001861593 seconds time elapsed

Is there any kernel version supports both complete performance counters and android?Because I want to use perf when running android program.Thanks.

2012/12/5 David Long dave.long@linaro.org

On 12/05/12 00:32, Peng Fan wrote:

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Thanks for your reply ,David Long. Can you give me url of the kernel version 3.4.19?Thanks.

I suggest checking out the "tilt-3.4" branch of git://

git.linaro.org/landing-**teams/working/ti/kernel.githttp://git.linaro.org/landing-teams/working/ti/kernel.git

That is based on 3.4.20.

git clone git://git.linaro.org/landing-**teams/working/ti/kernel.githttp://git.linaro.org/landing-teams/working/ti/kernel.git cd kernel git checkout --track tilt-3.4

Looks like omap4plus_defconfig already has what you need for hardware perf counters.

-- David Long Kernel Engineer, TI Landing Team Linaro