perf/x86: Add INST_RETIRED.ALL workarounds

On Broadwell INST_RETIRED.ALL cannot be used with any period
that doesn't have the lowest 6 bits cleared. And the period
should not be smaller than 128.

Add a new callback to enforce this, and set it for Broadwell.

This is erratum BDM57 and BDM11.

How does this handle the case when an app requests a specific
period with some of the bottom bits set

The apps thinks it is sampling at X occurences per sample, when it is
in fact at X - 63 (worst case).

Short answer:

Any useful instruction sampling period needs to be 4-6 orders
of magnitude larger than 128, as an PMI every 128 instructions
would instantly overwhelm the system and be throttled.
So the +-64 error from this is really small compared to the
period, much smaller than normal system jitter.

Long answer:

<write up by Peter:>

IFF we guarantee perf_event_attr::sample_period >= 128.

Suppose we start out with sample_period=192; then we'll set period_left
to 192, we'll end up with left = 128 (we truncate the lower bits). We
get an interrupt, find that period_left = 64 (>0 so we return 0 and
don't get an overflow handler), up that to 128. Then we trigger again,
at n=256. Then we find period_left = -64 (<=0 so we return 1 and do get
an overflow). We increment with sample_period so we get left = 128. We
fire again, at n=384, period_left = 0 (<=0 so we return 1 and get an
overflow). And on and on.

So while the individual interrupts are 'wrong' we get then with
interval=256,128 in exactly the right ratio to average out at 192. And
this works for everything >=128.

So the num_samples*fixed_period thing is still entirely correct +- 127,
which is good enough I'd say, as you already have that error anyhow.

So no need to 'fix' the tools, al we need to do is refuse to create
INST_RETIRED:ALL events with sample_period < 128.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>
Cc: Kan Liang <kan.liang@intel.com>
Cc: Maria Dimakopoulou <maria.n.dimakopoulou@gmail.com>
Cc: Mark Davies <junk@eslaf.co.uk>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1409683455-29168-4-git-send-email-andi@firstfloor.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

3 files changed, 29 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event.c
index 0646d3b63b9d..918d75f77be7 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event.c
@@ -443,6 +443,12 @@ int x86_pmu_hw_config(struct perf_event *event)
         if (event->attr.type == PERF_TYPE_RAW)
                 event->hw.config |= event->attr.config & X86_RAW_EVENT_MASK;
 
+        if (event->attr.sample_period && x86_pmu.limit_period) {
+                if (x86_pmu.limit_period(event, event->attr.sample_period) >
+                                event->attr.sample_period)
+                        return -EINVAL;
+        }
+
         return x86_setup_perfctr(event);
 }
 
@@ -980,6 +986,9 @@ int x86_perf_event_set_period(struct perf_event *event)
         if (left > x86_pmu.max_period)
                 left = x86_pmu.max_period;
 
+        if (x86_pmu.limit_period)
+                left = x86_pmu.limit_period(event, left);
+
         per_cpu(pmc_prev_left[idx], smp_processor_id()) = left;
 
         /*
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event.h b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event.h
index fc5eb390b368..d98a34d435d7 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event.h
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event.h
@@ -445,6 +445,7 @@ struct x86_pmu {
         struct x86_pmu_quirk *quirks;
         int             perfctr_second_write;
         bool            late_ack;
+        unsigned        (*limit_period)(struct perf_event *event, unsigned l);
 
         /*
          * sysfs attrs
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_intel.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_intel.c
index 567156608613..bbcd0d2b157a 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_intel.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_intel.c
@@ -2034,6 +2034,24 @@ hsw_get_event_constraints(struct cpu_hw_events *cpuc, struct perf_event *event)
         return c;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Broadwell:
+ * The INST_RETIRED.ALL period always needs to have lowest
+ * 6bits cleared (BDM57). It shall not use a period smaller
+ * than 100 (BDM11). We combine the two to enforce
+ * a min-period of 128.
+ */
+static unsigned bdw_limit_period(struct perf_event *event, unsigned left)
+{
+        if ((event->hw.config & INTEL_ARCH_EVENT_MASK) ==
+                        X86_CONFIG(.event=0xc0, .umask=0x01)) {
+                if (left < 128)
+                        left = 128;
+                left &= ~0x3fu;
+        }
+        return left;
+}
+
 PMU_FORMAT_ATTR(event,  "config:0-7"    );
 PMU_FORMAT_ATTR(umask,  "config:8-15"   );
 PMU_FORMAT_ATTR(edge,   "config:18"     );
@@ -2712,6 +2730,7 @@ __init int intel_pmu_init(void)
                 x86_pmu.hw_config = hsw_hw_config;
                 x86_pmu.get_event_constraints = hsw_get_event_constraints;
                 x86_pmu.cpu_events = hsw_events_attrs;
+                x86_pmu.limit_period = bdw_limit_period;
                 pr_cont("Broadwell events, ");
                 break;