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    perf/core: Add weighted samples · c3feedf2
    Andi Kleen 提交于
    For some events it's useful to weight sample with a hardware
    provided number. This expresses how expensive the action the
    sample represent was.  This allows the profiler to scale
    the samples to be more informative to the programmer.
    
    There is already the period which is used similarly, but it
    means something different, so I chose to not overload it.
    Instead a new sample type for WEIGHT is added.
    
    Can be used for multiple things. Initially it is used for TSX
    abort costs and profiling by memory latencies (so to make
    expensive load appear higher up in the histograms). The concept
    is quite generic and can be extended to many other kinds of
    events or architectures, as long as the hardware provides
    suitable auxillary values. In principle it could be also used
    for software tracepoints.
    
    This adds the generic glue. A new optional sample format for a
    64-bit weight value.
    Signed-off-by: NAndi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
    Signed-off-by: NStephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
    Cc: peterz@infradead.org
    Cc: acme@redhat.com
    Cc: jolsa@redhat.com
    Cc: namhyung.kim@lge.com
    Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1359040242-8269-5-git-send-email-eranian@google.comSigned-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
    Signed-off-by: NArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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