linux/arch/x86
Peter Zijlstra f4929bd372 perf, x86: Update/fix Intel Nehalem cache events
Change the Nehalem cache events to use retired memory instruction counters
(similar to Westmere), this greatly improves the provided stats.

Using:

main ()
{
        int i;

        for (i = 0; i < 1000000000; i++) {
                asm("mov (%%rsp), %%rbx;"
                    "mov %%rbx, (%%rsp);" : : : "rbx");
        }
}

We find:

 $ perf stat --repeat 10 -e instructions:u -e l1-dcache-loads:u -e l1-dcache-stores:u ./loop_1b_loads+stores
  Performance counter stats for './loop_1b_loads+stores' (10 runs):
      4,000,081,056 instructions:u           #      0.000 IPC ( +-   0.000% )
      4,999,502,846 l1-dcache-loads:u          ( +-   0.008% )
      1,000,034,832 l1-dcache-stores:u         ( +-   0.000% )
         1.565184942  seconds time elapsed   ( +-   0.005% )

The 5b is surprising - we'd expect 1b:

 $ perf stat --repeat 10 -e instructions:u -e r10b:u -e l1-dcache-stores:u ./loop_1b_loads+stores
  Performance counter stats for './loop_1b_loads+stores' (10 runs):
      4,000,081,054 instructions:u           #      0.000 IPC ( +-   0.000% )
      1,000,021,961 r10b:u                     ( +-   0.000% )
      1,000,030,951 l1-dcache-stores:u         ( +-   0.000% )
         1.565055422  seconds time elapsed   ( +-   0.003% )

Which this patch thus fixes.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Lin Ming <ming.m.lin@intel.com>
Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-q9rtru7b7840tws75xzboapv@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-04-22 13:50:27 +02:00
..
boot x86, build: Make sure mkpiggy fails on read error 2011-03-01 16:32:03 -08:00
configs defconfig reduction 2010-08-14 22:26:53 +02:00
crypto crypto: aesni-intel - fixed problem with packets that are not multiple of 64bytes 2011-03-27 10:29:39 +08:00
ia32 x86: mark associated mm when running a task in 32 bit compatibility mode 2011-03-23 16:36:53 -04:00
include/asm x86, numa: Fix cpu nodemasks for NUMA emulation and CONFIG_DEBUG_PER_CPU_MAPS 2011-04-21 11:31:00 +02:00
kernel perf, x86: Update/fix Intel Nehalem cache events 2011-04-22 13:50:27 +02:00
kvm KVM: move and fix substitue search for missing CPUID entries 2011-04-06 13:15:56 +03:00
lguest x86: Fix common misspellings 2011-03-18 10:39:30 +01:00
lib percpu: Omit segment prefix in the UP case for cmpxchg_double 2011-03-27 19:25:36 -07:00
math-emu
mm x86, numa: Fix cpu nodemasks for NUMA emulation and CONFIG_DEBUG_PER_CPU_MAPS 2011-04-21 11:31:00 +02:00
oprofile Merge branch 'core' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rric/oprofile into perf/urgent 2011-03-29 09:32:28 +02:00
pci Merge branch 'linux-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jbarnes/pci-2.6 2011-03-18 10:56:44 -07:00
platform x86/mrst: Fix boot crash caused by incorrect pin to irq mapping 2011-04-12 08:38:52 +02:00
power x86, tsc, sched: Recompute cyc2ns_offset's during resume from sleep states 2010-08-20 14:59:02 +02:00
tools
vdso mm: arch: rename in_gate_area_no_task to in_gate_area_no_mm 2011-03-23 16:36:55 -04:00
video
xen xen: mask_rw_pte: do not apply the early_ioremap checks on x86_32 2011-04-20 09:43:13 -04:00
.gitignore
Kbuild x86: Add platform directory 2010-10-27 14:30:01 +02:00
Kconfig Merge branch 'syscore' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/suspend-2.6 2011-03-25 21:07:59 -07:00
Kconfig.cpu x86: Fix common misspellings 2011-03-18 10:39:30 +01:00
Kconfig.debug kconfig: rename CONFIG_EMBEDDED to CONFIG_EXPERT 2011-01-20 17:02:05 -08:00
Makefile Merge branch 'x86-asm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip 2010-10-21 13:06:00 -07:00
Makefile_32.cpu jump label: Add work around to i386 gcc asm goto bug 2010-10-29 14:45:29 -04:00