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    perf/x86/intel: Add Haswell TSX event aliases · 4b2c4f1f
    Andi Kleen authored
    Add TSX event aliases, and export them from the kernel to perf.
    
    These are used by perf stat -T and to allow
    more user friendly access to events. The events are designed to
    be fairly generic and may also apply to other architectures
    implementing HTM.  They all cover common situations that
    happens during tuning of transactional code.
    
    For Haswell we have to separate the HLE and RTM events,
    as they are separate in the PMU.
    
    This adds the following events:
    
     tx-start	Count start transaction (used by perf stat -T)
     tx-commit	Count commit of transaction
     tx-abort	Count all aborts
     tx-conflict	Count aborts due to conflict with another CPU.
     tx-capacity	Count capacity aborts (transaction too large)
    
    Then matching el-* events for HLE
    
     cycles-t	Transactional cycles (used by perf stat -T)
      * also exists on POWER8
    
     cycles-ct	Transactional cycles commited (used by perf stat -T)
      * according to Michael Ellerman POWER8 has a cycles-transactional-committed,
      * perf stat -T handles both cases
    
    Note for useful abort profiling often precise has to be set,
    as Haswell can only report the point inside the transaction
    with precise=2.
    
    For some classes of aborts, like conflicts, this is not needed,
    as it makes more sense to look at the complete critical section.
    
    This gives a clean set of generalized events to examine transaction
    success and aborts. Haswell has additional events for TSX, but those
    are more specialized for very specific situations.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAndi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarPeter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
    Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1378438661-24765-4-git-send-email-andi@firstfloor.orgSigned-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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