perf events: Add stalled cycles generic event - PERF_COUNT_HW_STALLED_CYCLES

The new PERF_COUNT_HW_STALLED_CYCLES event tries to approximate
cycles the CPU does nothing useful, because it is stalled on a
cache-miss or some other condition.

Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Acked-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-fue11vymwqsoo5to72jxxjyl@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/perf_event.h b/include/linux/perf_event.h
index ee9f1e782800..ac636dd20a0c 100644
--- a/include/linux/perf_event.h
+++ b/include/linux/perf_event.h
@@ -52,6 +52,7 @@ enum perf_hw_id {
         PERF_COUNT_HW_BRANCH_INSTRUCTIONS       = 4,
         PERF_COUNT_HW_BRANCH_MISSES             = 5,
         PERF_COUNT_HW_BUS_CYCLES                = 6,
+        PERF_COUNT_HW_STALLED_CYCLES            = 7,
 
         PERF_COUNT_HW_MAX,                      /* non-ABI */
 };