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Bug 741325 - ARM fc14 kernels does not provide hardware perf counter support
Summary: ARM fc14 kernels does not provide hardware perf counter support
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: kernel
Version: 17
Hardware: arm9
OS: Linux
unspecified
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Dennis Gilmore
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
URL:
Whiteboard: ARM
Depends On:
Blocks: ARMTracker 773116
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2011-09-26 15:22 UTC by William Cohen
Modified: 2012-11-15 21:41 UTC (History)
9 users (show)

Fixed In Version:
Doc Type: Bug Fix
Doc Text:
Clone Of:
Environment:
Last Closed: 2012-11-15 21:41:09 UTC
Type: ---
Embargoed:


Attachments (Terms of Use)
Patch to allow building the perf rpm for ARM (465 bytes, patch)
2011-09-26 15:22 UTC, William Cohen
no flags Details | Diff
Enable hardware performance monitoring support on trimslice (1.08 KB, patch)
2012-03-03 01:49 UTC, William Cohen
no flags Details | Diff

Description William Cohen 2011-09-26 15:22:15 UTC
Created attachment 524928 [details]
Patch to allow building the perf rpm for ARM

Description of problem:

Newer versions of the Linux kernel provide perf to access performance monitoring hardware. The 2.6.40.3-0.fc14.armv7l.tegra does not provide support for the hardware events. This prevents OProfile from working on ARM processors.

Note that newer kernel rpms also provide a perf rpm. This is not being provided by this kernel either.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

kernel-tegra-2.6.40.3-0.fc14.armv7l
oprofile-0.9.7-1.fc14.armv5tel

How reproducible:


Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install kernel and oprofile rpms on nvidia tegra (trimslice) machine
   For (arm/armv7-ca9) need a very new version of oprofile available from:  
     http://arm.koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=170994
2. opcontrol --setup --no-vmlinux
3. opcontrol --start
  
Actual results:

Get message:

Using default event: CPU_CYCLES:100000:0:1:1
Using 2.6+ OProfile kernel interface.
Using log file /var/lib/oprofile/samples/oprofiled.log
Daemon started.
Profiler running.

However in /var/log/messages see:

Jan  1 18:04:46 fedora-arm kernel: [  120.254470] hw perfevents: unable to reserve pmu

Also get no samples from oprofile.

Expected results:

Oprofile collecting samples using the performance monitoring hardware and /var/log/messages indicates that the hw perfevents being used properly.



Additional info:

I was able to build the perf rpm with a simple patch to more directly play with the perf events.  Software events can be set up properly on the machine. It is only the hardware events on arm that are a problem.

Comment 1 William Cohen 2011-10-31 18:49:21 UTC
The kernel on the trimslice seems to provide access to the performance hardware:

# uname -a
Linux trimslice 2.6.38.3-trimslice-1.01-01637-gc2b2d3e #49 SMP PREEMPT Thu Jul 14 19:18:14 IDT 2011 armv7l armv7l armv7l GNU/Linux


Have on the machine:

linux-tools                                     install                         
linux-tools-2.6.38-12                           install                         
linux-tools-common                              install
linux-firmware                                  install                         
linux-image-trimslice                           install

Have to work around some versioning issues in the perf wrapper and run /usr/bin/perf_2.6.38-12 directly. However, it does provide events information:

# perf_2.6.38-12 stat ls                                        
etc  logs  sbin  usr                                                            
                                                                                
 Performance counter stats for 'ls':                                            
                                                                                
            25,005 cache-misses             #      0.804 M/sec                  
             2,801 cache-references         #      0.090 M/sec                  
          1,54,875 branch-misses            #     46.538 %                      
          3,32,791 branches                 #     10.697 M/sec                  
         29,16,394 instructions             #      0.440 IPC                    
         66,29,814 cycles                   #    213.109 M/sec                  
               203 page-faults              #      0.007 M/sec                  
                 0 CPU-migrations           #      0.000 M/sec                  
                 8 context-switches         #      0.000 M/sec                  
         31.110000 task-clock-msecs         #      0.803 CPUs                   
                                                                                
        0.038732000  seconds time elapsed      

Looks like should see what differences there are between the Fedora14 kernel and the this trimslice kernel

Comment 2 William Cohen 2011-10-31 19:12:45 UTC
The ubuntu trimslice kernel is here:

http://gitorious.org/trimslice-kernel

Comment 3 Dave Jones 2011-11-01 18:11:06 UTC
I added this patch to f15/f16/master.  The f14 branch is stuck on 2.6.35 for the rest of its life, and lacks all the arm additions.

Comment 4 Honza Horak 2012-01-19 12:02:36 UTC
It seems it's still not working in 2.6.41.6-1.fc15. 

I don't have a real arm machine so I've created a simple dummy package and tried to build it in arm-koji:
http://arm.koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=267809

There is the following test in %check:
perf stat ls || dmesg | tail

and the relevant part of build.log is:
+ perf stat ls
  Error: open_counter returned with 19 (No such device). /bin/dmesg may provide additional information.
  Fatal: Not all events could be opened.
+ tail
+ dmesg
[1089532.581085] hw perfevents: unable to reserve pmu

Do I miss something?

Comment 5 William Cohen 2012-01-19 15:38:54 UTC
Testing this on koji is likely to fail. There are no guarantees that
the build system has a kernel that support perf (or other feature
kernel-specific features).  Also the perf support is very specific to
the processor implementation. This koji build was done on omap
machine, while the original bug report was on a tegra2 processor.
Really need to test on tegra2 machine to verify that fedora kernel are
fixed.

Another data point, the trimslice machine original used to create this report is running a stock 3.2.0+ git tree kernel.

$ uname -a      
Linux fedora-arm 3.2.0+ #30 SMP PREEMPT Wed Jan 18 12:00:36 EST 2012 armv7l armv7l armv7l GNU/Linux

In dmesg see:

[    0.140076] hw perfevents: enabled with ARMv7 Cortex-A9 PMU driver, 7 counters available

However, for perf (both rpm installed and one from locally built
kernel) I get the following:

$ ./perf stat ls
  Error: open_counter returned with 19 (No such device). /bin/dmesg may provide additional information.

  Fatal: Not all events could be opened.


The git commit for the kernel (listed below) only enables the building of the perf package. It doesn't actually do anything to address the problem with accessing the performance monitoring unit in the kernel.


commit bf976a17c4b2c2b164f6413d52ffbdab09a26d1a
Author: Dave Jones <davej>
Date:   Tue Nov 1 14:08:42 2011 -0400

    allow building the perf rpm for ARM (rhbz 741325)

Comment 6 Honza Horak 2012-01-19 16:07:31 UTC
(In reply to comment #5)
> The git commit for the kernel (listed below) only enables the building of the
> perf package. It doesn't actually do anything to address the problem with
> accessing the performance monitoring unit in the kernel.

According comment #2 it should be possible to have performance counter support in 2.6.x. I'd like to see this working because of bug #773116, so re-opening (or should I open a new bz for that?).

Comment 7 Dennis Gilmore 2012-01-20 01:52:25 UTC
the 2.6.x on fedora arm is actually all 3.x based. F14 is EOL and not really supported. the kernel in koji for f14 is backported from F15.  I suggest you use f15 arm at this point. we are rappidly getting rawhide up. f15 will have a short life also. normal release lifes and schedules should follow after that.

Comment 8 Honza Horak 2012-01-20 10:19:34 UTC
Since current F15 kernel still doesn't fix this bug, I've changed version to F15. Let's keep this open until at least F16 or Rawhide with performance counter support is ready.

Comment 9 Peter Robinson 2012-01-20 11:04:01 UTC
perf seems to run just fine on a armv5tel F-15 install (currently even running a F-14 kernel too), see output below.

Looking at the current F-15 kernel it seems we're building the perf package for softfp but not hardfp:

http://arm.koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=41164

[root@fedora-arm ~]# rpm -q kernel-omap perf
kernel-omap-2.6.40.4-6.fc15.armv7l
kernel-omap-2.6.41.6-1.fc15.armv7l
perf-2.6.41.6-1.fc15.armv5tel
[root@fedora-arm ~]# uname -a
Linux fedora-arm 2.6.40.3-0.fc14.armv7l.omap #1 SMP PREEMPT Mon Aug 22 12:46:51 EDT 2011 armv7l armv7l armv7l GNU/Linux
[root@fedora-arm ~]# perf stat ls

 Performance counter stats for 'ls':

          9.002685 task-clock                #    0.853 CPUs utilized
                 0 context-switches          #    0.000 M/sec
                 0 CPU-migrations            #    0.000 M/sec
               198 page-faults               #    0.022 M/sec
           3000471 cycles                    #    0.333 GHz
                 0 stalled-cycles-frontend   #    0.00% frontend cycles idle
                 0 stalled-cycles-backend    #    0.00% backend  cycles idle
           1319528 instructions              #    0.44  insns per cycle
            171539 branches                  #   19.054 M/sec
     <not counted> branch-misses

       0.010558721 seconds time elapsed

Comment 10 Honza Horak 2012-01-20 13:50:51 UTC
(In reply to comment #9)
> Looking at the current F-15 kernel it seems we're building the perf package for
> softfp but not hardfp:
> 
> http://arm.koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=41164

I'm still trying to understand it. Does it mean it is possible to read cycle count in userspace with that kernel? And my dummy test (see comment #4) means we are not able to get cycle count only in koji?

Comment 11 William Cohen 2012-01-20 16:01:12 UTC
As mentioned the builder might be using a different kernel that the distribution. The test didn't include the kernel version that being used by the builder, so it isn't clear which specific kernel was being used for this experiment on the build system. The tail end of a backtrace is in the output there:

+ dmesg
[367699.273895] [<c0053524>] (__do_softirq+0x5c/0x244) from [<c0053b7c>] (irq_exit+0x90/0x98)
[367699.282592] [<c0053b7c>] (irq_exit+0x90/0x98) from [<c000e4c8>] (handle_IRQ+0x50/0xac)
[367699.291046] [<c000e4c8>] (handle_IRQ+0x50/0xac) from [<c04e7054>] (__irq_usr+0x34/0x100)
[367699.299682] ---[ end trace e2d689825ccd843e ]---

kernel-omap and kernel-tegra2 are different sub packages. It is quite possible that perf could work in one but not in another because of differences in the config or code path being used. I installed the tegra kernel from:

http://arm.koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=41164

And followed the setup instructions at:

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Architectures/ARM/TrimSlicePRO

Tried the same experiment and things do not work on the trimslice


[wcohen@fedora-arm ~]$ uname -a
Linux fedora-arm 2.6.41.6-1.fc15.armv7l.tegra #1 SMP PREEMPT Sat Dec 24 22:32:17 UTC 2011 armv7l armv7l armv7l GNU/Linux
[wcohen@fedora-arm ~]$ perf stat ls
  Error: open_counter returned with 19 (No such device). /bin/dmesg may provide additional information.

  Fatal: Not all events could be opened.

In dmesg see:

[    0.130079] hw perfevents: enabled with ARMv7 Cortex-A9 PMU driver, 7 counter
s available

Then later:

[  202.117626] hw perfevents: unable to reserve pmu


So there is something broken for the tegra 2 use of the performance
monitoring unit.

Comment 12 William Cohen 2012-01-20 17:26:06 UTC
Which omap processor was used in comment#9? I wonder if the difference between omap working and tegra not is Cortex-A8 vs Cortex-A9:

http://developer.nvidia.com/archived-tegra-forums/forum/oprofile-linux

It would be really useful to know which version of the PMU is working on the omap. What was the output in dmesg?

Comment 13 Peter Robinson 2012-01-21 12:23:04 UTC
(In reply to comment #11)
> As mentioned the builder might be using a different kernel that the
> distribution. The test didn't include the kernel version that being used by the
> builder, so it isn't clear which specific kernel was being used for this
> experiment on the build system. The tail end of a backtrace is in the output
> there:

Same kernel but armv5tel on omap

> kernel-omap and kernel-tegra2 are different sub packages. It is quite possible
> that perf could work in one but not in another because of differences in the
> config or code path being used. I installed the tegra kernel from:

Yes,

> http://arm.koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=41164

If you look @ that kernel there's no perf package for armv7hl, the armv5tel one won't work. I'm looking to get that fixed. Once I have it fixed I'll test it on my TS running the 7hl kernel/perf

> Tried the same experiment and things do not work on the trimslice

where did you get the perf package from?

Comment 14 Peter Robinson 2012-01-21 12:23:58 UTC
(In reply to comment #12)
> Which omap processor was used in comment#9? I wonder if the difference between
> omap working and tegra not is Cortex-A8 vs Cortex-A9:

Its a beagleboard XM

Comment 15 Peter Robinson 2012-01-21 12:25:12 UTC
> http://developer.nvidia.com/archived-tegra-forums/forum/oprofile-linux

"It appears the oprofile code in the tegra/android kernel is quite different from mainline linux and not compatible with the normal oprofile userspace tools. "

We're using the mainline linux kernel, not an android kernel.

Comment 16 William Cohen 2012-01-23 14:42:35 UTC
My trimslice is running 

$ rpm -q kernel-tegra perf
kernel-tegra-2.6.41.6-1.fc15.armv7l
perf-2.6.41.6-1.fc15.armv5tel

The perf armv5tel appears to work for the software events with the arm7l kernel. It is just the the hardware events that do not appear to work:

$ perf stat -e task-clock -e minor-faults -e major-faults -e context-switches ls
autoconf-vm-area-pte.c		papi-4.2.0-1.fc17.src.rpm
ioblktime2.stp			perf.data
ioblktime.stp			transcheck.diff
kernel-2.6.41.6-1.fc15.src.rpm	valgrind-3.6.1-6.fc16.src.rpm

 Performance counter stats for 'ls':

          4.437000 task-clock                #    0.260 CPUs utilized          
                 0 minor-faults              #    0.000 M/sec                  
                 0 major-faults              #    0.000 M/sec                  
                23 context-switches          #    0.005 M/sec                  

       0.017036764 seconds time elapsed


$ perf stat -e cycles ls  Error: open_counter returned with 19 (No such device). /bin/dmesg may provide additional information.

  Fatal: Not all events could be opened.



The beagle board xm is cortex-a8, so there are definitely difference in code being run.

Comment 17 William Cohen 2012-01-23 19:47:16 UTC
Ran a couple very simple sytsemtap script to get a better idea what is going on.

$  stap -e 'probe kernel.function("reserve_pmu").return {printf("%s %s 0x%x\n", pn(), $$parms$, $return)}' -c 'perf stat ls'
  Error: open_counter returned with 19 (No such device). /bin/dmesg may provide additional information.

  Fatal: Not all events could be opened.

Warning: child process exited with status 128
kernel.function("reserve_pmu@arch/arm/kernel/pmu.c:115").return type=0 0xffffffed
Warning: /usr/bin/staprun exited with status: 1


Looks like things are going wrong in reserve_pmu(). Return values of -19, -ENODEV. It looks like pmu_devices[type] is not getting initialized.  Maybe pmu_register() and register_pmu_driver() are never called.

http://lxr.linux.no/#linux+v3.1.5/arch/arm/kernel/pmu.c#L29

Is there something in the dmesg output like "registered new PMU device of type ..." for the beagle board (or other ARM system with working PMU support)? Nothing like that in the trimslice dmesg output.

Comment 18 William Cohen 2012-02-10 18:19:12 UTC
A little experiment to see what function are getting called using the para-callgraph.stp example.

For a working software event see:

stap /usr/share/doc/systemtap-1.6/examples/general/para-callgraph.stp 'kernel.function("*@arch/arm/kernel/perf*.c")' -c 'perf stat -e cpu-clock ls'
autoconf-vm-area-pte.c		papi-4.2.1-0.20120209.el6.src.rpm
ioblktime2.stp			perf.data
ioblktime.stp			transcheck.diff
kernel-2.6.41.6-1.fc15.src.rpm	valgrind-3.6.1-6.fc16.src.rpm

 Performance counter stats for 'ls':

          3.705000 cpu-clock                

       0.004748231 seconds time elapsed

     0 perf(8363):->armpmu_event_init event=0xede6ac00
     0 perf(8363): ->armv7_a9_map_event event=0xede6ac00
     0 perf(8363):  ->map_cpu_event event=0xede6ac00 event_map=0xc0483e34 cache_map=0xc0483e5c raw_event_mask=0xff
     0 perf(8363):  <-map_cpu_event return=0xfffffffffffffffe
     0 perf(8363): <-armv7_a9_map_event return=0xfffffffffffffffe
     0 perf(8363):<-armpmu_event_init return=0xfffffffffffffffe



For a non-working hardware event (cycles) see  (the 0xff returned by map_cpu_event looks like the expected value according to armv7_a9_perf_map[]) ::


stap /usr/share/doc/systemtap-1.6/examples/general/para-callgraph.stp 'kernel.function("*@arch/arm/kernel/perf*.c")' -c 'perf stat -e cycles ls'
  Error: open_counter returned with 19 (No such device). /bin/dmesg may provide additional information.

  Fatal: Not all events could be opened.

Warning: child process exited with status 128
     0 perf(8351):->armpmu_event_init event=0xede6ac00
     0 perf(8351): ->armv7_a9_map_event event=0xede6ac00
     0 perf(8351):  ->map_cpu_event event=0xede6ac00 event_map=0xc0483e34 cache_map=0xc0483e5c raw_event_mask=0xff
     0 perf(8351):  <-map_cpu_event return=0xff
     0 perf(8351): <-armv7_a9_map_event return=0xff
     0 perf(8351):<-armpmu_event_init return=0xffffffffffffffed
WARNING: /media/greatplains/wcohen/systemtap_write/install/bin/staprun exited with status: 1
Pass 5: run failed.  Try again with another '--vp 00001' option.


Never see it call to __hw_perf_event_init(event) with:


stap -e 'probe kernel.function("__hw_perf_event_init") {printf("%s %s\n",pn(), $event$)}' -c 'perf stat ls'
  Error: open_counter returned with 19 (No such device). /bin/dmesg may provide additional information.

  Fatal: Not all events could be opened.

Warning: child process exited with status 128
WARNING: /media/greatplains/wcohen/systemtap_write/install/bin/staprun exited with status: 1
Pass 5: run failed.  Try again with another '--vp 00001' option.


So things look to be going wrong in  armpmu_reserve_hardware() Suspect armpmu->plat_device is never set so in 
armpmu_reserve_hardware() end up running

 405        if (!pmu_device)
 406                return -ENODEV;


That would explain the behavior. This line of code looks like it is suppose to initialize that plat_device but isn't

http://lxr.linux.no/#linux+v3.2.5/arch/arm/kernel/perf_event.c#L646

Comment 19 William Cohen 2012-02-10 19:48:49 UTC
Looks like some information is missing from the device tree for tegra*.dts.  In upstream linux kernel see arm/arch/boot/dts/highbank.dts see the following:


	cpus {
	...
	soc {
		#address-cells = <1>;
		#size-cells = <1>;
		compatible = "simple-bus";
		interrupt-parent = <&intc>;
		ranges;
		...
		pmu {
			compatible = "arm,cortex-a9-pmu";
			interrupts = <0 76 4  0 75 4  0 74 4  0 73 4>;
		};


For the hardware perf events to work on various arm implementations for newer linux kernel they are going to need similar device tree entries.

Comment 20 William Cohen 2012-02-10 20:18:38 UTC
Some mentions of requiring this information in the device tree in http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=blob;f=Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/pmu.txt;

Comment 21 Dennis Gilmore 2012-02-10 20:23:05 UTC
make sure your f15 system is fully updated. the f15 update fedora kernel added perf on armv7hl

Comment 22 William Cohen 2012-02-11 16:28:09 UTC
I have been investigating this with the upstream kernel git tree (git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git).  The only device tree description that seems like it has a chance of working for hardware performance monitoring events is the highbank.dts one. Nothing else has a descriptions for the performance monitoring unit (pmu) descriptions. Took a look at kernel-2.6.42.2-1.fc15.src.rpm sources and there doesn't seem to be any changes to address this.

The user-space perf package is not the problem. perf is able to measure software events without problem.

Comment 23 William Cohen 2012-03-02 21:41:09 UTC
There is some code in arch/arm/mach-tegra/devices.c related to the pmu, but there doesn't seem to be any use of that in arch/arm/mach-tegra/devices.c.  The board-seaboard.c includes an entry. Looks like there should be a similar entry in board-trimslice.c.

Comment 24 Dennis Gilmore 2012-03-02 22:40:17 UTC
Last i looked none of the framebuffer or Power management code for the trimslice is in the upstream kernel. its all still only in compulabs git repo. so we dont have any of it supported. since it needs to move to upstream first.

Comment 25 William Cohen 2012-03-03 01:49:07 UTC
Created attachment 567210 [details]
Enable hardware performance monitoring support  on trimslice

A one line patch to fix up support of performance monitoring on trimslice.  Compiled kernel now allows:

$ perf stat ls .
boot.scr                     prelink-0.4.5-4.fc17.src.rpm                       
kernel-tegra-perf-dtb.patch  prelink-0.4.6-4.fc18.src.rpm                       
                                                                                
 Performance counter stats for 'ls .':                                          
                                                                                
          4.245000 task-clock                #    0.848 CPUs utilized           
                 0 context-switches          #    0.000 M/sec                   
                 0 CPU-migrations            #    0.000 M/sec                   
               207 page-faults               #    0.049 M/sec                   
           4228072 cycles                    #    0.996 GHz                     
            788958 stalled-cycles-frontend   #   18.66% frontend cycles idle    
           3279599 stalled-cycles-backend    #   77.57% backend  cycles idle    
           1438908 instructions              #    0.34  insns per cycle         
                                             #    2.28  stalled cycles per insn 
            143618 branches                  #   33.832 M/sec                   
             70850 branch-misses             #   49.33% of all branches         
                                                                                
       0.005006798 seconds time elapsed

Comment 26 William Cohen 2012-04-25 13:21:39 UTC
There are people that are wanting to look at performance issues on trimslice boxes. Without this fixed none of the performance tools (perf/pcl, papi, or oprofile) will work making it more difficult for people address performance issues on the upcoming fedora 17 for arm.

Comment 27 Peter Robinson 2012-04-25 13:26:12 UTC
(In reply to comment #26)
> There are people that are wanting to look at performance issues on trimslice
> boxes. Without this fixed none of the performance tools (perf/pcl, papi, or
> oprofile) will work making it more difficult for people address performance
> issues on the upcoming fedora 17 for arm.

Has the one line patch been pushed to mainline kernel?

Comment 28 William Cohen 2012-04-25 13:52:54 UTC
There is a request to put that into the upstream kernels. Thread at:

http://www.spinics.net/lists/arm-kernel/msg162913.html

However, it doesn't appear to be in yet.

Comment 29 Peter Robinson 2012-06-06 09:47:18 UTC
Moving to F-17 as still an issue there and it's the only supported ARM release. I need to work out how we can better get patches upstreamed

Comment 30 Peter Robinson 2012-10-17 12:16:22 UTC
Will can you test F-18 with the 3.6.1 kernel and the new Trimslice uboot that supports DeviceTree. With that it should work

Comment 31 William Cohen 2012-10-17 17:59:13 UTC
I was able to set up kernel-tegra-3.6.1-2.fc18.armv7hl on f17 to boot with device trees and able to get data out of perf.

[wcohen@fedora-arm src]$ uname -a                                               
Linux fedora-arm 3.6.1-2.fc18.armv7hl.tegra #1 SMP Sat Oct 13 19:02:46 EDT 2012x
[wcohen@fedora-arm src]$ ls -d /proc/device-tree/                               
/proc/device-tree/                                                              
[wcohen@fedora-arm src]$ perf stat true                                         
                                                                                
 Performance counter stats for 'true':                                          
                                                                                
          5.366000 task-clock                #    0.367 CPUs utilized           
                 1 context-switches          #    0.186 K/sec                   
                 0 CPU-migrations            #    0.000 K/sec                   
                73 page-faults               #    0.014 M/sec                   
           1140567 cycles                    #    0.213 GHz                     
            199019 stalled-cycles-frontend   #   17.45% frontend cycles idle    
            866886 stalled-cycles-backend    #   76.00% backend  cycles idle    
            400278 instructions              #    0.35  insns per cycle         
                                             #    2.17  stalled cycles per insn 
             43171 branches                  #    8.045 M/sec                   
             22859 branch-misses             #   52.95% of all branches         
                                                                                
       0.014617677 seconds time elapsed

Comment 32 William Cohen 2012-11-15 21:41:09 UTC
The performance monitoring hardware works when device trees used on trimslice, so closing this bug.


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