The commit 94dbfd6781 ("perf parse-events: Architecture specific
leader override") introduced a feature to reorder the slots event to
fulfill the restriction of the perf metrics topdown group. But the
feature doesn't work on the hybrid machine.
$ perf stat -e "{cpu_core/instructions/,cpu_core/slots/,cpu_core/topdown-retiring/}" -a sleep 1
Performance counter stats for 'system wide':
<not counted> cpu_core/instructions/
<not counted> cpu_core/slots/
<not supported> cpu_core/topdown-retiring/
1.002871801 seconds time elapsed
A hybrid platform has a different PMU name for the core PMUs, while
current perf hard code the PMU name "cpu".
Introduce a new function to check whether the system supports the perf
metrics feature. The result is cached for the future usage.
For X86, the core PMU name always has "cpu" prefix.
With the patch:
$ perf stat -e "{cpu_core/instructions/,cpu_core/slots/,cpu_core/topdown-retiring/}" -a sleep 1
Performance counter stats for 'system wide':
76,337,010 cpu_core/slots/
10,416,809 cpu_core/instructions/
11,692,372 cpu_core/topdown-retiring/
1.002805453 seconds time elapsed
Reviewed-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Xing Zhengjun <zhengjun.xing@linux.intel.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220518143900.1493980-5-kan.liang@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
The evsel->name may have a different format for a topdown event, a pure
topdown name (e.g., topdown-fe-bound), or a PMU name + a topdown name
(e.g., cpu/topdown-fe-bound/). The cpu/topdown-fe-bound/ kind format
isn't supported by the arch_evlist__leader(). This format is a very
common format for a hybrid platform, which requires specifying the PMU
name for each event.
Without the patch,
$ perf stat -e '{instructions,slots,cpu/topdown-fe-bound/}' -a sleep 1
Performance counter stats for 'system wide':
<not counted> instructions
<not counted> slots
<not supported> cpu/topdown-fe-bound/
1.003482041 seconds time elapsed
Some events weren't counted. Try disabling the NMI watchdog:
echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/nmi_watchdog
perf stat ...
echo 1 > /proc/sys/kernel/nmi_watchdog
The events in group usually have to be from the same PMU. Try reorganizing the group.
With the patch,
$ perf stat -e '{instructions,slots,cpu/topdown-fe-bound/}' -a sleep 1
Performance counter stats for 'system wide':
157,383,996 slots
25,011,711 instructions
27,441,686 cpu/topdown-fe-bound/
1.003530890 seconds time elapsed
Fixes: bc355822f0 ("perf parse-events: Move slots only with topdown")
Reviewed-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Xing Zhengjun <zhengjun.xing@linux.intel.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220518143900.1493980-4-kan.liang@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
If slots isn't with a topdown event then moving it is unnecessary. For
example {instructions, slots} is re-ordered:
$ perf stat -e '{instructions,slots}' -a sleep 1
Performance counter stats for 'system wide':
936,600,825 slots
144,440,968 instructions
1.006061423 seconds time elapsed
Which can break tools expecting the command line order to match the
printed order. It is necessary to move the slots event first when it
appears with topdown events. Add extra checking so that the slots event
is only moved in the case of there being a topdown event like:
$ perf stat -e '{instructions,slots,topdown-fe-bound}' -a sleep 1
Performance counter stats for 'system wide':
2427568570 slots
300927614 instructions
551021649 topdown-fe-bound
1.001771803 seconds time elapsed
Fixes: 94dbfd6781 ("perf parse-events: Architecture specific leader override")
Reported-by: Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Tested-by: Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Alexandre Torgue <alexandre.torgue@foss.st.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: James Clark <james.clark@arm.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: John Garry <john.garry@huawei.com>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Maxime Coquelin <mcoquelin.stm32@gmail.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Xing Zhengjun <zhengjun.xing@linux.intel.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220321223344.1034479-1-irogers@google.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
An issue with icelakex metrics:
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/acme/linux.git/tree/tools/perf/pmu-events/arch/x86/icelakex/icx-metrics.json?h=perf/core&id=65eab2bc7dab326ee892ec5a4c749470b368b51a#n48
That causes the slots not to be first.
Fixes: 94dbfd6781 ("perf parse-events: Architecture specific leader override")
Reported-by: Caleb Biggers <caleb.biggers@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Alexandre Torgue <alexandre.torgue@foss.st.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: James Clark <james.clark@arm.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: John Garry <john.garry@huawei.com>
Cc: Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Maxime Coquelin <mcoquelin.stm32@gmail.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Zhengjun Xing <zhengjun.xing@linux.intel.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220317224309.543736-1-irogers@google.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Currently topdown events must appear after a slots event:
$ perf stat -e '{slots,topdown-fe-bound}' /bin/true
Performance counter stats for '/bin/true':
3,183,090 slots
986,133 topdown-fe-bound
Reversing the events yields:
$ perf stat -e '{topdown-fe-bound,slots}' /bin/true
Error:
The sys_perf_event_open() syscall returned with 22 (Invalid argument) for event (topdown-fe-bound).
For metrics the order of events is determined by iterating over a
hashmap, and so slots isn't guaranteed to be first which can yield this
error.
Change the set_leader in parse-events, called when a group is closed, so
that rather than always making the first event the leader, if the slots
event exists then it is made the leader. It is then moved to the head of
the evlist otherwise it won't be opened in the correct order.
The result is:
$ perf stat -e '{topdown-fe-bound,slots}' /bin/true
Performance counter stats for '/bin/true':
3,274,795 slots
1,001,702 topdown-fe-bound
A problem with this approach is the slots event is identified by name,
names can be overwritten like 'cpu/slots,name=foo/' and this causes the
leader change to fail.
The change also modifies and fixes mixed groups like, with the change:
$ perf stat -e '{instructions,slots,topdown-fe-bound}' -a -- sleep 2
Performance counter stats for 'system wide':
5574985410 slots
971981616 instructions
1348461887 topdown-fe-bound
2.001263120 seconds time elapsed
Without the change:
$ perf stat -e '{instructions,slots,topdown-fe-bound}' -a -- sleep 2
Performance counter stats for 'system wide':
<not counted> instructions
<not counted> slots
<not supported> topdown-fe-bound
2.006247990 seconds time elapsed
Something that may be undesirable here is that the events are reordered
in the output.
Reviewed-by: Kajol Jain <kjain@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: John Garry <john.garry@huawei.com>
Cc: Kajol Jain <kjain@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Paul Clarke <pc@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Riccardo Mancini <rickyman7@gmail.com>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Vineet Singh <vineet.singh@intel.com>
Link: http://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20211130174945.247604-2-irogers@google.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
The Topdown Microarchitecture Analysis (TMA) Method is a structured
analysis methodology to identify critical performance bottlenecks in
out-of-order processors.
The Topdown metrics L1 event was added as default in 42641d6f4d
("perf stat: Add Topdown metrics events as default events")
From the Sapphire Rapids server and later platforms, the same dedicated
"metrics" register is extended to support both L1 and L2 events.
Add both L1 and L2 Topdown metrics events as default to enrich the
default measuring information if the new measurement register is
available.
On legacy systems there is no change to avoid extra multiplexing.
The topdown_level indicates the max metrics level for the top-down
statistics. Set it to 2 to display all L1 and L2 Topdown metrics events.
With the patch:
$ perf stat sleep 1
Performance counter stats for 'sleep 1':
0.59 msec task-clock # 0.001 CPUs utilized
1 context-switches # 1.687 K/sec
0 cpu-migrations # 0.000 /sec
76 page-faults # 128.198 K/sec
1,405,318 cycles # 2.371 GHz
1,471,136 instructions # 1.05 insn per cycle
310,132 branches # 523.136 M/sec
10,435 branch-misses # 3.36% of all branches
8,431,908 slots # 14.223 G/sec
1,554,116 topdown-retiring # 18.4% retiring
1,289,585 topdown-bad-spec # 15.2% bad speculation
2,810,636 topdown-fe-bound # 33.2% frontend bound
2,810,636 topdown-be-bound # 33.2% backend bound
231,464 topdown-heavy-ops # 2.7% heavy operations # 15.6% light operations
1,223,453 topdown-br-mispredict # 14.5% branch mispredict # 0.8% machine clears
1,884,779 topdown-fetch-lat # 22.3% fetch latency # 10.9% fetch bandwidth
1,454,917 topdown-mem-bound # 17.2% memory bound # 16.0% Core bound
1.001179699 seconds time elapsed
0.000000000 seconds user
0.001238000 seconds sys
Signed-off-by: Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Jin Yao <yao.jin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Link: http://lore.kernel.org/lkml/1625760169-18396-1-git-send-email-kan.liang@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
The Topdown Microarchitecture Analysis (TMA) Method is a structured
analysis methodology to identify critical performance bottlenecks in
out-of-order processors. From the Ice Lake and later platforms, the
Topdown information can be retrieved from the dedicated "metrics"
register, which isn't impacted by other events. Also, the Topdown
metrics support both per thread/process and per core measuring. Adding
Topdown metrics events as default events can enrich the default
measuring information, and would not cost any extra multiplexing.
Introduce arch_evlist__add_default_attrs() to allow architecture
specific default events. Add the Topdown metrics events in the X86
specific arch_evlist__add_default_attrs(). Other architectures can add
their own default events later separately.
With the patch:
$ perf stat sleep 1
Performance counter stats for 'sleep 1':
0.82 msec task-clock:u # 0.001 CPUs utilized
0 context-switches:u # 0.000 K/sec
0 cpu-migrations:u # 0.000 K/sec
61 page-faults:u # 0.074 M/sec
319,941 cycles:u # 0.388 GHz
242,802 instructions:u # 0.76 insn per cycle
54,380 branches:u # 66.028 M/sec
4,043 branch-misses:u # 7.43% of all branches
1,585,555 slots:u # 1925.189 M/sec
238,941 topdown-retiring:u # 15.0% retiring
410,378 topdown-bad-spec:u # 25.8% bad speculation
634,222 topdown-fe-bound:u # 39.9% frontend bound
304,675 topdown-be-bound:u # 19.2% backend bound
1.001791625 seconds time elapsed
0.000000000 seconds user
0.001572000 seconds sys
Signed-off-by: Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com>
Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Jin Yao <yao.jin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Link: http://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20210121133752.118327-1-kan.liang@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Kan Liang
Ian Rogers