perf stat: Check existence of frontend/backed stalled cycles
Only put the frontend/backend stalled cycles into the default perf stat events when the CPU actually supports them. This avoids empty columns with --metric-only on newer Intel CPUs. Committer note: Before: $ perf stat ls Performance counter stats for 'ls': 1.080893 task-clock (msec) # 0.619 CPUs utilized 0 context-switches # 0.000 K/sec 0 cpu-migrations # 0.000 K/sec 97 page-faults # 0.090 M/sec 3,327,741 cycles # 3.079 GHz <not supported> stalled-cycles-frontend <not supported> stalled-cycles-backend 1,609,544 instructions # 0.48 insn per cycle 319,117 branches # 295.235 M/sec 12,246 branch-misses # 3.84% of all branches 0.001746508 seconds time elapsed $ After: $ perf stat ls Performance counter stats for 'ls': 0.693948 task-clock (msec) # 0.662 CPUs utilized 0 context-switches # 0.000 K/sec 0 cpu-migrations # 0.000 K/sec 95 page-faults # 0.137 M/sec 1,792,509 cycles # 2.583 GHz 1,599,047 instructions # 0.89 insn per cycle 316,328 branches # 455.838 M/sec 12,453 branch-misses # 3.94% of all branches 0.001048987 seconds time elapsed $ Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1456532881-26621-2-git-send-email-andi@firstfloor.orgSigned-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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