Re: perf stat branch: perf stat fails on unsupported event

[Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>]

* David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> wrote:

> This is a Dell R410 with an E5620 processor.

That's a Westmere CPU.

Could you check whether the patch below applied to latest -tip gives you 
stalled-cycles-frontend and stalled-cycles-backend events?

Thanks,

	Ingo

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>From 3808ae38f1905c1f11da46ac981c8d2579936fd8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Date: Sat, 30 Apr 2011 09:14:54 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] perf events, x86: Add Westmere stalled-cycles-frontend/backend events

Extend the Intel Westmere PMU driver with definitions for generic front-end and
back-end stall events.

( These are only approximations. )

Reported-by: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-7y40wib8n008io7hjpn1dsrm@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
---
 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_intel.c |    6 ++++++
 1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_intel.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_intel.c
index 7983b9a..be8363a 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_intel.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_intel.c
@@ -1458,6 +1458,12 @@ static __init int intel_pmu_init(void)
 		x86_pmu.enable_all = intel_pmu_nhm_enable_all;
 		x86_pmu.pebs_constraints = intel_westmere_pebs_event_constraints;
 		x86_pmu.extra_regs = intel_westmere_extra_regs;
+
+		/* UOPS_ISSUED.STALLED_CYCLES */
+		intel_perfmon_event_map[PERF_COUNT_HW_STALLED_CYCLES_FRONTEND] = 0x180010e;
+		/* UOPS_EXECUTED.CORE_ACTIVE_CYCLES,c=1,i=1 */
+		intel_perfmon_event_map[PERF_COUNT_HW_STALLED_CYCLES_BACKEND] = 0x1803fb1;
+
 		pr_cont("Westmere events, ");
 		break;