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perf/x86: Add memory profiling via PEBS Load Latency

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This patch adds support for memory profiling using the
PEBS Load Latency facility.

Load accesses are sampled by HW and the instruction
address, data address, load latency, data source, tlb,
locked information can be saved in the sampling buffer
if using the PERF_SAMPLE_COST (for latency),
PERF_SAMPLE_ADDR, PERF_SAMPLE_DATA_SRC types.

To enable PEBS Load Latency, users have to use the
model specific event:

 - on NHM/WSM: MEM_INST_RETIRED:LATENCY_ABOVE_THRESHOLD
 - on SNB/IVB: MEM_TRANS_RETIRED:LATENCY_ABOVE_THRESHOLD

To make things easier, this patch also exports a generic
alias via sysfs: mem-loads. It export the right event
encoding based on the host CPU and can be used directly
by the perf tool.

Loosely based on Intel's Lin Ming patch posted on LKML
in July 2011.

Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: peterz@infradead.org
Cc: ak@linux.intel.com
Cc: acme@redhat.com
Cc: jolsa@redhat.com
Cc: namhyung.kim@lge.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1359040242-8269-9-git-send-email-eranian@google.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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Stephane Eranian
2013-01-24 16:10:32 +01:00
committed by Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
parent d6be9ad6c9
commit f20093eef5
5 changed files with 178 additions and 10 deletions
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arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/msr-index.h
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@@ -71,6 +71,7 @@
#define MSR_IA32_PEBS_ENABLE 0x000003f1
#define MSR_IA32_DS_AREA 0x00000600
#define MSR_IA32_PERF_CAPABILITIES 0x00000345
#define MSR_PEBS_LD_LAT_THRESHOLD 0x000003f6
#define MSR_MTRRfix64K_00000 0x00000250
#define MSR_MTRRfix16K_80000 0x00000258