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* perf/x86: Add support for PEBS Precise StoreStephane Eranian2013-04-01
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch adds support for PEBS Precise Store which is available on Intel Sandy Bridge and Ivy Bridge processors. To use Precise store, the proper PEBS event must be used: mem_trans_retired:precise_stores. For the perf tool, the generic mem-stores event exported via sysfs can be used directly. 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/1359040242-8269-11-git-send-email-eranian@google.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
* perf/x86: Add memory profiling via PEBS Load LatencyStephane Eranian2013-04-01
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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>
* perf/x86: Add flags to event constraintsStephane Eranian2013-04-01
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch adds a flags field to each event constraint. It can be used to store event specific features which can then later be used by scheduling code or low-level x86 code. The flags are propagated into event->hw.flags during the get_event_constraint() call. They are cleared during the put_event_constraint() call. This mechanism is going to be used by the PEBS-LL patches. It avoids defining yet another table to hold event specific information. Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Cc: peterz@infradead.org Cc: ak@linux.intel.com Cc: jolsa@redhat.com Cc: namhyung.kim@lge.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1359040242-8269-4-git-send-email-eranian@google.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
* perf/x86: Improve sysfs event mapping with event stringStephane Eranian2013-03-26
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch extends Jiri's changes to make generic events mapping visible via sysfs. The patch extends the mechanism to non-generic events by allowing the mappings to be hardcoded in strings. This mechanism will be used by the PEBS-LL patch later on. 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/1359040242-8269-3-git-send-email-eranian@google.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> [ fixed up conflict with 2663960 "perf: Make EVENT_ATTR global" ] Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
* perf/x86: Support CPU specific sysfs eventsAndi Kleen2013-03-26
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Add a way for the CPU initialization code to register additional events, and merge them into the events attribute directory. Used in the next patch. Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Cc: peterz@infradead.org Cc: acme@redhat.com Cc: jolsa@redhat.com Cc: namhyung.kim@lge.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1359040242-8269-2-git-send-email-eranian@google.com [ small cleanups ] Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> [ merge_attr returns a **, not just * ] Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
* perf/x86: Allow for architecture specific RDPMC indexesJacob Shin2013-02-06
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Similar to config_base and event_base, allow architecture specific RDPMC ECX values. Signed-off-by: Jacob Shin <jacob.shin@amd.com> Acked-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@ghostprotocols.net> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1360171589-6381-6-git-send-email-jacob.shin@amd.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
* perf/x86: Move MSR address offset calculation to architecture specific filesJacob Shin2013-02-06
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Move counter index to MSR address offset calculation to architecture specific files. This prepares the way for perf_event_amd to enable counter addresses that are not contiguous -- for example AMD Family 15h processors have 6 core performance counters starting at 0xc0010200 and 4 northbridge performance counters starting at 0xc0010240. Signed-off-by: Jacob Shin <jacob.shin@amd.com> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@ghostprotocols.net> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1360171589-6381-5-git-send-email-jacob.shin@amd.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
* perf/x86: Add hardware events translations for Intel P6 cpusJiri Olsa2012-10-24
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Add support for Intel P6 processors to display 'events' sysfs directory (/sys/devices/cpu/events/) with hw event translations: # ls /sys/devices/cpu/events/ branch-instructions branch-misses bus-cycles cache-misses cache-references cpu-cycles instructions ref-cycles stalled-cycles-backend stalled-cycles-frontend Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@ghostprotocols.net> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1349873598-12583-6-git-send-email-jolsa@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
* perf/x86: Add hardware events translations for AMD cpusJiri Olsa2012-10-24
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Add support for AMD processors to display 'events' sysfs directory (/sys/devices/cpu/events/) with hw event translations: # ls /sys/devices/cpu/events/ branch-instructions branch-misses bus-cycles cache-misses cache-references cpu-cycles instructions ref-cycles stalled-cycles-backend stalled-cycles-frontend Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@ghostprotocols.net> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1349873598-12583-5-git-send-email-jolsa@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
* perf/x86: Add hardware events translations for Intel cpusJiri Olsa2012-10-24
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Add support for Intel processors to display 'events' sysfs directory (/sys/devices/cpu/events/) with hw event translations: # ls /sys/devices/cpu/events/ branch-instructions branch-misses bus-cycles cache-misses cache-references cpu-cycles instructions ref-cycles stalled-cycles-backend stalled-cycles-frontend Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@ghostprotocols.net> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1349873598-12583-4-git-send-email-jolsa@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
* perf/x86: Make hardware event translations available in sysfsJiri Olsa2012-10-24
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Add support to display hardware events translations available through the sysfs. Add 'events' group attribute under the sysfs x86 PMU record with attribute/file for each hardware event. This patch adds only backbone for PMUs to display config under 'events' directory. The specific PMU support itself will come in next patches, however this is how the sysfs group will look like: # ls /sys/devices/cpu/events/ branch-instructions branch-misses bus-cycles cache-misses cache-references cpu-cycles instructions ref-cycles stalled-cycles-backend stalled-cycles-frontend The file - hw event ID mapping is: file hw event ID --------------------------------------------------------------- cpu-cycles PERF_COUNT_HW_CPU_CYCLES instructions PERF_COUNT_HW_INSTRUCTIONS cache-references PERF_COUNT_HW_CACHE_REFERENCES cache-misses PERF_COUNT_HW_CACHE_MISSES branch-instructions PERF_COUNT_HW_BRANCH_INSTRUCTIONS branch-misses PERF_COUNT_HW_BRANCH_MISSES bus-cycles PERF_COUNT_HW_BUS_CYCLES stalled-cycles-frontend PERF_COUNT_HW_STALLED_CYCLES_FRONTEND stalled-cycles-backend PERF_COUNT_HW_STALLED_CYCLES_BACKEND ref-cycles PERF_COUNT_HW_REF_CPU_CYCLES Each file in the 'events' directory contains the term translation for the symbolic hw event for the currently running cpu model. # cat /sys/devices/cpu/events/stalled-cycles-backend event=0xb1,umask=0x01,inv,cmask=0x01 Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@ghostprotocols.net> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1349873598-12583-2-git-send-email-jolsa@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
* perf/x86: Add support for Intel Xeon-Phi Knights Corner PMUVince Weaver2012-10-04
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The following patch adds perf_event support for the Xeon-Phi PMU, as documented in the "Intel Xeon Phi Coprocessor (codename: Knights Corner) Performance Monitoring Units" manual. Even though it is a co-processor, a Phi runs a full Linux environment and can support performance counters. This is just barebones support, it does not add support for interesting new features such as the SPFLT intruction that allows starting/stopping events without entering the kernel. The PMU internally is just like that of an original Pentium, but a "P6-like" MSR interface is provided. The interface is different enough from a real P6 that it's not easy (or practical) to re-use the code in perf_event_p6.c Acked-by: Lawrence F Meadows <lawrence.f.meadows@intel.com> Acked-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org> Signed-off-by: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@ghostprotocols.net> Cc: eranian@gmail.com Cc: Lawrence F <lawrence.f.meadows@intel.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.DEB.2.02.1209261405320.8398@vincent-weaver-1.um.maine.edu Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
* perf/x86: Fix Intel Ivy Bridge supportStephane Eranian2012-09-19
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch updates the existing Intel IvyBridge (model 58) support with proper PEBS event constraints. It cannot reuse the same as SandyBridge because some events (0xd3) are specific to IvyBridge. Also there is no UOPS_DISPATCHED.THREAD on IVB, so do not populate the PERF_COUNT_HW_STALLED_CYCLES_BACKEND mapping. Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Cc: peterz@infradead.org Cc: ak@linux.intel.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120910230701.GA5898@quad Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
* perf/x86: Fix USER/KERNEL tagging of samples properlyPeter Zijlstra2012-07-31
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Some PMUs don't provide a full register set for their sample, specifically 'advanced' PMUs like AMD IBS and Intel PEBS which provide 'better' than regular interrupt accuracy. In this case we use the interrupt regs as basis and over-write some fields (typically IP) with different information. The perf core however uses user_mode() to distinguish user/kernel samples, user_mode() relies on regs->cs. If the interrupt skid pushed us over a boundary the new IP might not be in the same domain as the interrupt. Commit ce5c1fe9a9e ("perf/x86: Fix USER/KERNEL tagging of samples") tried to fix this by making the perf core use kernel_ip(). This however is wrong (TM), as pointed out by Linus, since it doesn't allow for VM86 and non-zero based segments in IA32 mode. Therefore, provide a new helper to set the regs->ip field, set_linear_ip(), which massages the regs into a suitable state assuming the provided IP is in fact a linear address. Also modify perf_instruction_pointer() and perf_callchain_user() to deal with segments base offsets. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1341910954.3462.102.camel@twins Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
* perf/x86: Make bitfield unsignedPeter Zijlstra2012-07-26
| | | | | | | | | | | | Fix: arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event.h:377:43: sparse: dubious one-bit signed bitfield Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@amd64.org> Reported-by: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-2jxkmktkppkclj1qe6qxd7ah@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
* perf/x86: Save a few bytes in 'struct x86_pmu'Peter Zijlstra2012-07-05
| | | | | | | | | | All these are basically boolean flags, use a bitfield to save a few bytes. Suggested-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@amd64.org> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-vsevd5g8lhcn129n3s7trl7r@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
* perf/x86: Add a microcode revision check for SNB-PEBSPeter Zijlstra2012-07-05
| | | | | | | | | | | | | Recent Intel microcode resolved the SNB-PEBS issues, so conditionally enable PEBS on SNB hardware depending on the microcode revision. Thanks to Stephane for figuring out the various microcode revisions. Suggested-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Acked-by: Borislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@amd.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-v3672ziwh9damwqwh1uz3krm@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
* perf: Export perf_assign_events()Yan, Zheng2012-06-18
| | | | | | | | | | Export perf_assign_events() so the uncore code can use it to schedule events. Signed-off-by: Zheng Yan <zheng.z.yan@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1339741902-8449-2-git-send-email-zheng.z.yan@intel.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
* perf/x86: Don't assume there can be only 4 PEBS eventsAndi Kleen2012-06-06
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | On Sandy Bridge in non HT mode there are 8 counters available. Since every counter can write a PEBS record assuming there are 4 max is incorrect. Use the reported counter number -- with an upper limit for a static array -- instead. Also I made the warning messages a bit more informational. Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1338944211-28275-2-git-send-email-andi@firstfloor.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
* perf/x86: Fix wrmsrl() debug wrapperPeter Zijlstra2012-06-06
| | | | | | | | | | Move the wrmslr() debug wrapper to the common header now that all the include games are gone. Also clean it up a bit to avoid multiple evaluation of the argument. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-l4gkfnivwv4yi5mqxjlovymx@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
* perf/x86: Implement cycles:p for SNB/IVBPeter Zijlstra2012-06-06
| | | | | | | | | | | Now that there's finally a chip with working PEBS (IvyBridge), we can enable the hardware and implement cycles:p for SNB/IVB. Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Requested-and-tested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1338884803.28282.153.camel@twins Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
* perf/x86: Fix Intel shared extra MSR allocationPeter Zijlstra2012-06-06
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Zheng Yan reported that event group validation can wreck event state when Intel extra_reg allocation changes event state. Validation shouldn't change any persistent state. Cloning events in validate_{event,group}() isn't really pretty either, so add a few special cases to avoid modifying the event state. The code is restructured to minimize the special case impact. Reported-by: Zheng Yan <zheng.z.yan@linux.intel.com> Acked-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1338903031.28282.175.camel@twins Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
* perf: Adding sysfs group format attribute for pmu deviceJiri Olsa2012-03-16
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Adding sysfs group 'format' attribute for pmu device that contains a syntax description on how to construct raw events. The event configuration is described in following struct pefr_event_attr attributes: config config1 config2 Each sysfs attribute within the format attribute group, describes mapping of name and bitfield definition within one of above attributes. eg: "/sys/...<dev>/format/event" contains "config:0-7" "/sys/...<dev>/format/umask" contains "config:8-15" "/sys/...<dev>/format/usr" contains "config:16" the attribute value syntax is: line: config ':' bits config: 'config' | 'config1' | 'config2" bits: bits ',' bit_term | bit_term bit_term: VALUE '-' VALUE | VALUE Adding format attribute definitions for x86 cpu pmus. Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-vhdk5y2hyype9j63prymty36@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
* Merge branch 'perf/hw-branch-sampling' into perf/coreIngo Molnar2012-03-12
|\ | | | | | | | | | | Merge reason: The 'perf record -b' hardware branch sampling feature is ready for upstream. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
| * perf: Add callback to flush branch_stack on context switchStephane Eranian2012-03-05
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | With branch stack sampling, it is possible to filter by priv levels. In system-wide mode, that means it is possible to capture only user level branches. The builtin SW LBR filter needs to disassemble code based on LBR captured addresses. For that, it needs to know the task the addresses are associated with. Because of context switches, the content of the branch stack buffer may contain addresses from different tasks. We need a callback on context switch to either flush the branch stack or save it. This patch adds a new callback in struct pmu which is called during context switches. The callback is called only when necessary. That is when a system-wide context has, at least, one event which uses PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_STACK. The callback is never called for per-thread context. In this version, the Intel x86 code simply flushes (resets) the LBR on context switches (fills it with zeroes). Those zeroed branches are then filtered out by the SW filter. Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1328826068-11713-11-git-send-email-eranian@google.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
| * perf/x86: Add LBR software filter support for Intel CPUsStephane Eranian2012-03-05
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch adds an internal sofware filter to complement the (optional) LBR hardware filter. The software filter is necessary: - as a substitute when there is no HW LBR filter (e.g., Atom, Core) - to complement HW LBR filter in case of errata (e.g., Nehalem/Westmere) - to provide finer grain filtering (e.g., all processors) Sometimes the LBR HW filter cannot distinguish between two types of branches. For instance, to capture syscall as CALLS, it is necessary to enable the LBR_FAR filter which will also capture JMP instructions. Thus, a second pass is necessary to filter those out, this is what the SW filter can do. The SW filter is built on top of the internal x86 disassembler. It is a best effort filter especially for user level code. It is subject to the availability of the text page of the program. The SW filter is enabled on all Intel processors. It is bypassed when the user is capturing all branches at all priv levels. Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1328826068-11713-9-git-send-email-eranian@google.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
| * perf/x86: Implement PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH for Intel CPUsStephane Eranian2012-03-05
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch implements PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH support for Intel x86processors. It connects PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH to the actual LBR. The patch adds the hooks in the PMU irq handler to save the LBR on counter overflow for both regular and PEBS modes. Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1328826068-11713-8-git-send-email-eranian@google.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
| * perf/x86: Add Intel LBR mappings for PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH filtersStephane Eranian2012-03-05
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch adds the mappings from the generic PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_* filters to the actual Intel x86LBR filters, whenever they exist. Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1328826068-11713-6-git-send-email-eranian@google.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
| * perf/x86: Add Intel LBR sharing logicStephane Eranian2012-03-05
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The Intel LBR on some recent processor is capable of filtering branches by type. The filter is configurable via the LBR_SELECT MSR register. There are limitation on how this register can be used. On Nehalem/Westmere, the LBR_SELECT is shared by the two HT threads when HT is on. It is private to each core when HT is off. On SandyBridge, the LBR_SELECT register is private to each thread when HT is on. It is private to each core when HT is off. The kernel must manage the sharing of LBR_SELECT. It allows multiple users on the same logical CPU to use LBR_SELECT as long as they program it with the same value. Across sibling CPUs (HT threads), the same restriction applies on NHM/WSM. This patch implements this sharing logic by leveraging the mechanism put in place for managing the offcore_response shared MSR. We modify __intel_shared_reg_get_constraints() to cause x86_get_event_constraint() to be called because LBR may be associated with events that may be counter constrained. Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1328826068-11713-4-git-send-email-eranian@google.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* | perf/x86: Prettify pmu config literalsPeter Zijlstra2012-03-12
|/ | | | | | | | | | | I got somewhat tired of having to decode hex numbers.. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Cc: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-0vsy1sgywc4uar3mu1szm0rg@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* Merge branch 'perf/urgent' into perf/coreIngo Molnar2012-03-05
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Conflicts: tools/perf/builtin-record.c tools/perf/builtin-top.c tools/perf/perf.h tools/perf/util/top.h Merge reason: resolve these cherry-picking conflicts. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
| * perf/x86/kvm: Fix Host-Only/Guest-Only counting with SVM disabledJoerg Roedel2012-03-02
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | It turned out that a performance counter on AMD does not count at all when the GO or HO bit is set in the control register and SVM is disabled in EFER. This patch works around this issue by masking out the HO bit in the performance counter control register when SVM is not enabled. The GO bit is not touched because it is only set when the user wants to count in guest-mode only. So when SVM is disabled the counter should not run at all and the not-counting is the intended behaviour. Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Cc: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com> Cc: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v3.2 Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1330523852-19566-1-git-send-email-joerg.roedel@amd.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* | perf, x86: Provide means for disabling userspace RDPMCPeter Zijlstra2011-12-21
|/ | | | | | | | | | | | Allow the disabling of RDPMC via a pmu specific attribute: echo 0 > /sys/bus/event_source/devices/cpu/rdpmc Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Cc: Arun Sharma <asharma@fb.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-pqeog465zo5hsimtkfz73f27@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* perf, x86: Implement arch event mask as quirkPeter Zijlstra2011-12-06
| | | | | | | | | | | | | Implement the disabling of arch events as a quirk so that we can print a message along with it. This creates some visibility into the problem space and could allow us to work on adding more work-around like the AAJ80 one. Requested-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-wcja2z48wklzu1b0nkz0a5y7@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* x86, perf: Disable non available architectural eventsGleb Natapov2011-12-06
| | | | | | | | | | | Intel CPUs report non-available architectural events in cpuid leaf 0AH.EBX. Use it to disable events that are not available according to CPU. Signed-off-by: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1320929850-10480-7-git-send-email-gleb@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* perf, x86: Fix event scheduler for constraints with overlapping countersRobert Richter2011-12-06
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The current x86 event scheduler fails to resolve scheduling problems of certain combinations of events and constraints. This happens if the counter mask of such an event is not a subset of any other counter mask of a constraint with an equal or higher weight, e.g. constraints of the AMD family 15h pmu: counter mask weight amd_f15_PMC30 0x09 2 <--- overlapping counters amd_f15_PMC20 0x07 3 amd_f15_PMC53 0x38 3 The scheduler does not find then an existing solution. Here is an example: event code counter failure possible solution 0x02E PMC[3,0] 0 3 0x043 PMC[2:0] 1 0 0x045 PMC[2:0] 2 1 0x046 PMC[2:0] FAIL 2 The event scheduler may not select the correct counter in the first cycle because it needs to know which subsequent events will be scheduled. It may fail to schedule the events then. To solve this, we now save the scheduler state of events with overlapping counter counstraints. If we fail to schedule the events we rollback to those states and try to use another free counter. Constraints with overlapping counters are marked with a new introduced overlap flag. We set the overlap flag for such constraints to give the scheduler a hint which events to select for counter rescheduling. The EVENT_CONSTRAINT_OVERLAP() macro can be used for this. Care must be taken as the rescheduling algorithm is O(n!) which will increase scheduling cycles for an over-commited system dramatically. The number of such EVENT_CONSTRAINT_OVERLAP() macros and its counter masks must be kept at a minimum. Thus, the current stack is limited to 2 states to limit the number of loops the algorithm takes in the worst case. On systems with no overlapping-counter constraints, this implementation does not increase the loop count compared to the previous algorithm. V2: * Renamed redo -> overlap. * Reimplementation using perf scheduling helper functions. V3: * Added WARN_ON_ONCE() if out of save states. * Changed function interface of perf_sched_restore_state() to use bool as return value. Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1321616122-1533-3-git-send-email-robert.richter@amd.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* perf, intel: Use GO/HO bits in perf-ctrGleb Natapov2011-10-10
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Intel does not have guest/host-only bit in perf counters like AMD does. To support GO/HO bits KVM needs to switch EVENTSELn values (or PERF_GLOBAL_CTRL if available) at a guest entry. If a counter is configured to count only in a guest mode it stays disabled in a host, but VMX is configured to switch it to enabled value during guest entry. This patch adds GO/HO tracking to Intel perf code and provides interface for KVM to get a list of MSRs that need to be switched on a guest entry. Only cpus with architectural PMU (v1 or later) are supported with this patch. To my knowledge there is not p6 models with VMX but without architectural PMU and p4 with VMX are rare and the interface is general enough to support them if need arise. Signed-off-by: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1317816084-18026-7-git-send-email-gleb@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* x86, perf: Clean up perf_event cpu codeKevin Winchester2011-09-26
The CPU support for perf events on x86 was implemented via included C files with #ifdefs. Clean this up by creating a new header file and compiling the vendor-specific files as needed. Signed-off-by: Kevin Winchester <kjwinchester@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1314747665-2090-1-git-send-email-kjwinchester@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>