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    perf annotate: Add comment about annotated_src->nr_histograms · 9132d3d9
    Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo authored
    When we have multiple groups in an evlist, say:
    
      $ perf stat -e '{cycles,instructions},{cache-references,cache-misses}' sleep 1
    
       Performance counter stats for 'sleep 1':
    
               343,134      cycles:u
               249,292      instructions:u            #    0.73  insn per cycle
                15,556      cache-references:u
                 8,925      cache-misses:u            #   57.373 % of all cache refs
    
           1.000957550 seconds time elapsed
    
      $
    
    Then the perf_evsel instances for the two group leaders ("cycles" and
    "cache-references") will have evsel->nr_members set to 2, while all the
    evsel->evlist->nr_entries will be set to 4, so we can't use
    evsel->evlist->nr_entries everywhere, as event groups need to be taken
    into account.
    
    But this probably requires us to audit at least the forced-group code,
    where we want all of the events to be in a "group", to see them all in
    the screen, one column for each, even knowing that they were not
    necessarily scheduled to count at the same time by the kernel perf
    subsystem.
    
    Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
    Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
    Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
    Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
    Cc: Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com>
    Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-2g0vwqnc49wl4ttjk8dvpgcc@git.kernel.orgSigned-off-by: default avatarArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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