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>
