We broke interval data displays with commit:
3f416f22d1e2 ("perf stat: Do not clean event's private stats")
This commit removed stats cleaning, which is important for '-r' option
to carry counters data over the whole run. But it's necessary to clean
it for interval mode, otherwise the displayed value is avg of all
previous values.
Before:
$ perf stat -e cycles -a -I 1000 record
# time counts unit events
1.
000240796 75,216,287 cycles
2.
000512791 107,823,524 cycles
$ perf stat report
# time counts unit events
1.
000240796 75,216,287 cycles
2.
000512791 91,519,906 cycles
Now:
$ perf stat report
# time counts unit events
1.
000240796 75,216,287 cycles
2.
000512791 107,823,524 cycles
Notice the second value being bigger (91,.. < 107,..).
This could be easily verified by using perf script which displays raw
stat data:
$ perf script
CPU THREAD VAL ENA RUN TIME EVENT
0 -1
23855779 1000209530 1000209530 1000240796 cycles
1 -1
33340397 1000224964 1000224964 1000240796 cycles
2 -1
15835415 1000226695 1000226695 1000240796 cycles
3 -1 2184696
1000228245 1000228245 1000240796 cycles
0 -1
97014312 2000514533 2000514533 2000512791 cycles
1 -1
46121497 2000543795 2000543795 2000512791 cycles
2 -1
32269530 2000543566 2000543566 2000512791 cycles
3 -1 7634472
2000544108 2000544108 2000512791 cycles
The sum of the first 4 values is the first interval aggregated value:
23855779 +
33340397 +
15835415 + 2184696 = 75,216,287
The sum of the second 4 values minus first value is the second interval
aggregated value:
97014312 +
46121497 +
32269530 + 7634472 -
75216287 = 107,823,524
Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1454485436-20639-1-git-send-email-jolsa@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
aggr->val = aggr->ena = aggr->run = 0;
+ /*
+ * We calculate counter's data every interval,
+ * and the display code shows ps->res_stats
+ * avg value. We need to zero the stats for
+ * interval mode, otherwise overall avg running
+ * averages will be shown for each interval.
+ */
+ if (config->interval)
+ init_stats(ps->res_stats);
+
if (counter->per_pkg)
zero_per_pkg(counter);