There are some hardware events on Power systems which only count when
the processor is not idle, and there are some fixed-function counters
which count such events. For example, the "run cycles" event counts
cycles when the processor is not idle. If the user asks to count
cycles, we can use "run cycles" if this is a per-task event, since the
processor is running when the task is running, by definition. We can't
use "run cycles" if the user asks for "cycles" on a system-wide
counter.
Currently in power8 this check is done using PPMU_ONLY_COUNT_RUN flag
in power8_get_alternatives() function. Based on the flag, events are
switched if needed. This function should also be enabled in power9, so
factor out the code to isa207_get_alternatives().
Fixes: efe881afdd ('powerpc/perf: Factor out event_alternative function')
Reported-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Madhavan Srinivasan <maddy@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Commit 20dd4c624d ('powerpc/perf: Fix SDAR_MODE value for continous
sampling on Power9') set the default sdar_mode value in MMCRA[SDAR_MODE]
to be used as 0b01 (Update on TLB miss). And this value is set if sdar_mode
from event is zero, or we are in continous sampling mode in power9 dd1.
But it is preferred to have the sdar_mode value for power9 as
0b10 (Update on dcache miss) for better sampling updates instead
of 0b01 (Update on TLB miss).
From Anton:
Using a bandwidth test case with a 1MB footprint, I profiled cycles and
chose TLB updates of the SDAR:
$ perf record -d -e r000400000000001E:u ./bw2001 1M
^
SDAR TLB
$ perf report -D | grep PERF_RECORD_SAMPLE | sed 's/.*addr: //' | sort -u | wc -l
4
I get 4 unique addresses. If I ran with dcache misses:
$ perf record -d -e r000800000000001E:u ./bw2001 1M
^
SDAR dcache miss
$ perf report -D|grep PERF_RECORD_SAMPLE| sed 's/.*addr: //'|sort -u | wc -l
5217
I get 5217 unique addresses. No surprises here, but it does show why
TLB misses is the wrong event to default to - we get very little useful
information out of it.
Signed-off-by: Madhavan Srinivasan <maddy@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Threshold feature when used with MMCRA [Threshold Event Counter Event],
MMCRA[Threshold Start event] and MMCRA[Threshold End event] will update
MMCRA[Threashold Event Counter Exponent] and MMCRA[Threshold Event
Counter Multiplier] with the corresponding threshold event count values.
Patch to export MMCRA[TECX/TECM] to userspace in 'weight' field of
struct perf_sample_data.
Signed-off-by: Madhavan Srinivasan <maddy@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
The LDST field and DATA_SRC in SIER identifies the memory hierarchy level
(eg: L1, L2 etc), from which a data-cache miss for a marked instruction
was satisfied. Use the 'perf_mem_data_src' object to export this
hierarchy level to user space.
Signed-off-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Madhavan Srinivasan <maddy@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
MMCRA[SDAR_MODE] specifices how the SDAR should be updated in
continous sampling mode. On P9 it must be set to 0b00 when
MMCRA[63] is set.
Fixes: c7c3f568be ('powerpc/perf: macros for power9 format encoding')
Signed-off-by: Madhavan Srinivasan <maddy@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
PMC5 on POWER9 DD1 may not provide right counts in all
sampling scenarios, hence use PM_INST_DISP event instead
in PMC2 or PMC3 in preference.
Signed-off-by: Madhavan Srinivasan <maddy@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Factor out the power8 event_alternative function to share
the code with power9.
Signed-off-by: Madhavan Srinivasan <maddy@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Patch to add macros and contants to support the power9 raw
event encoding format. Couple of functions added since some of the
bits fields like PMCxCOMB and THRESH_CMP has different width and location
within MMCR* in power9.
Signed-off-by: Madhavan Srinivasan <maddy@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Factor out some of the power8 pmu functions
to new file "isa207-common.c" to share with
power9 pmu code. Only code movement and no
logic change
Signed-off-by: Madhavan Srinivasan <maddy@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Factor out some of the power8 pmu macros to
new a header file to share with power9 pmu code.
Just code movement and no logic change.
Signed-off-by: Madhavan Srinivasan <maddy@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
