perf report: Fix wrong iteration count in --branch-history
By calculating the removed loops, we can get the iteration count. But the iteration count could be reported incorrectly, reporting impossibly high counts. That's because previous code uses the number of removed LBR entries for the iteration count. That's not good. Fix this by increasing the iteration count when a loop is detected. When matching the chain, the iteration count would be added up, finally we need to compute the average value when printing out. For example, $ perf report --branch-history --stdio --no-children Before: ---f2 +0 | |--33.62%--f1 +9 (cycles:1) | f1 +0 | main +22 (cycles:1) | main +17 | main +38 (cycles:1) | main +27 | f1 +26 (cycles:1) | f1 +24 | f2 +27 (cycles:7) | f2 +0 | f1 +19 (cycles:1) | f1 +14 | f2 +27 (cycles:11) | f2 +0 | f1 +9 (cycles:1 iter:2968 avg_cycles:3) | f1 +0 | main +22 (cycles:1 iter:2968 avg_cycles:3) | main +17 | main +38 (cycles:1 iter:2968 avg_cycles:3) 2968 is an impossible high iteration count and avg_cycles is too small. After: ---f2 +0 | |--33.62%--f1 +9 (cycles:1) | f1 +0 | main +22 (cycles:1) | main +17 | main +38 (cycles:1) | main +27 | f1 +26 (cycles:1) | f1 +24 | f2 +27 (cycles:7) | f2 +0 | f1 +19 (cycles:1) | f1 +14 | f2 +27 (cycles:11) | f2 +0 | f1 +9 (cycles:1 iter:1 avg_cycles:23) | f1 +0 | main +22 (cycles:1 iter:1 avg_cycles:23) | main +17 | main +38 (cycles:1 iter:1 avg_cycles:23) avg_cycles:23 is the average cycles of this iteration. Fixes: c4ee0625 ("perf report: Calculate the average cycles of iterations") Signed-off-by: Jin Yao <yao.jin@linux.intel.com> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Cc: Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1546582230-17507-1-git-send-email-yao.jin@linux.intel.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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