Patent ID: 11907100
Assignee: SIEMENS INDUSTRY SOFTWARE INC.
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G  H | IPC G  H

Claim 2:
3. The method of claim 2, further comprising:
when the stall count is less than the threshold stall count:
resetting the stall count to a count of 0;
counting a further number of successively retired instructions, which are generated contiguously;
counting the number of subsequent contiguous clock cycles of the processor during which no instruction is retired to form a further stall count;
comparing the further stall count to the threshold stall count; and
generating a trace message comprising a further instruction count and the further stall count and outputting the trace message when the further stall count is the same as or exceeds the threshold stall count,
wherein the further instruction count is a sum of the instruction count, the stall count, and the further number of successively retired instructions, which are generated contiguously.