* Ramkumar Ramachandra <artag...@gmail.com> wrote:
> When only the instructions event is requested:
>
> $ perf stat -e instructions git s
> M builtin-stat.c
>
> Performance counter stats for 'git s':
>
> 917,453,420 instructions # 0.00 insns per cycle
>
> 0.213002926 seconds time elapsed
>
> The 0.00 insns per cycle comment in the output is totally bogus and
> misleading. It happens because update_shadow_stats() doesn't touch
> runtime_cycles_stats when only the instructions event is requested. So,
> omit printing the bogus data altogether.
>
> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mi...@kernel.org>
> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijls...@chello.nl>
> Cc: Paul Mackerras <pau...@samba.org>
> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <a...@ghostprotocols.net>
> Signed-off-by: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artag...@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mi...@kernel.org>
Thanks,
Ingo
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