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Commit 8ed1faf0 authored by Jin Yao's avatar Jin Yao Committed by Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
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perf pmu-events x86: Use CPU_CLK_UNHALTED.THREAD in Kernel_Utilization metric



The kernel utilization metric does multiplexing currently and is somewhat
unreliable. The problem is that it uses two instances of the fixed counter,
and the kernel has to multipleplex which causes errors. So should use
CPU_CLK_UNHALTED.THREAD instead.

Before:

  # perf stat -M Kernel_Utilization -- sleep 1

  Performance counter stats for 'sleep 1':

          1,419,425      cpu_clk_unhalted.ref_tsc:k
      <not counted>      cpu_clk_unhalted.ref_tsc	(0.00%)

After:

  # perf stat -M Kernel_Utilization -- sleep 1

  Performance counter stats for 'sleep 1':

            746,688      cpu_clk_unhalted.thread:k #      0.7 Kernel_Utilization
          1,088,348      cpu_clk_unhalted.thread

Signed-off-by: default avatarJin Yao <yao.jin@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarAndi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarKan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Jin Yao <yao.jin@intel.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200309013125.7559-1-yao.jin@linux.intel.com


Signed-off-by: default avatarArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
parent 47327f56
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