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By calculating the removed loops, we can get the iteration count.
But the iteration count could be reported incorrectly, reporting
impossibly high counts.
That's because previous code uses the number of removed LBR entries for
the iteration count. That's not good. Fix this by increasing the
iteration count when a loop is detected.
When matching the chain, the iteration count would be added up, finally we need
to compute the average value when printing out.
For example,
$ perf report --branch-history --stdio --no-children
Before:
---f2 +0
|
|--33.62%--f1 +9 (cycles:1)
| f1 +0
| main +22 (cycles:1)
| main +17
| main +38 (cycles:1)
| main +27
| f1 +26 (cycles:1)
| f1 +24
| f2 +27 (cycles:7)
| f2 +0
| f1 +19 (cycles:1)
| f1 +14
| f2 +27 (cycles:11)
| f2 +0
| f1 +9 (cycles:1 iter:2968 avg_cycles:3)
| f1 +0
| main +22 (cycles:1 iter:2968 avg_cycles:3)
| main +17
| main +38 (cycles:1 iter:2968 avg_cycles:3)
2968 is an impossible high iteration count and avg_cycles is too small.
After:
---f2 +0
|
|--33.62%--f1 +9 (cycles:1)
| f1 +0
| main +22 (cycles:1)
| main +17
| main +38 (cycles:1)
| main +27
| f1 +26 (cycles:1)
| f1 +24
| f2 +27 (cycles:7)
| f2 +0
| f1 +19 (cycles:1)
| f1 +14
| f2 +27 (cycles:11)
| f2 +0
| f1 +9 (cycles:1 iter:1 avg_cycles:23)
| f1 +0
| main +22 (cycles:1 iter:1 avg_cycles:23)
| main +17
| main +38 (cycles:1 iter:1 avg_cycles:23)
avg_cycles:23 is the average cycles of this iteration.
Fixes:
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| Documentation | ||
| LICENSES | ||
| arch | ||
| block | ||
| certs | ||
| crypto | ||
| drivers | ||
| firmware | ||
| fs | ||
| include | ||
| init | ||
| ipc | ||
| kernel | ||
| lib | ||
| mm | ||
| net | ||
| samples | ||
| scripts | ||
| security | ||
| sound | ||
| tools | ||
| usr | ||
| virt | ||
| .clang-format | ||
| .cocciconfig | ||
| .get_maintainer.ignore | ||
| .gitattributes | ||
| .gitignore | ||
| .mailmap | ||
| COPYING | ||
| CREDITS | ||
| Kbuild | ||
| Kconfig | ||
| MAINTAINERS | ||
| Makefile | ||
| README | ||
README
Linux kernel
============
There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.