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    perf events, powerpc: Add POWER7 stalled-cycles-frontend/backend events · a120db06
    Anshuman Khandual authored
    perf events, powerpc: Add POWER7 stalled-cycles-frontend/backend events
    
    Extent the POWER7 PMU driver with definitions for generic front-end and back-end
    stall events.
    
    As explained in Ingo's original comment(8f622422
    ), the exact definitions of the stall events are very much processor specific as
    
    different things mean different in their respective instruction pipeline. These
    two Power7 raw events are the closest approximation to the concept detailed in
    Ingo's comment.
    
    [PERF_COUNT_HW_STALLED_CYCLES_FRONTEND] = 0x100f8, /* GCT_NOSLOT_CYC */
    It means cycles when the Global Completion Table has no slots from this thread
    
    [PERF_COUNT_HW_STALLED_CYCLES_BACKEND] = 0x4000a,  /* CMPLU_STALL */
    It means no groups completed and GCT not empty for this thread
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAnshuman Khandual <khandual@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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