Many platforms have feature of adjacent cachelines prefetch, when it is
enabled, for data in RAM of 2 cachelines (2N and 2N+1) granularity, if
one is fetched to cache, the other one could likely be fetched too,
which sort of extends the cacheline size to double, thus the false
sharing could happens in adjacent cachelines.
0Day has captured performance changed related with this [1], and some
commercial software explicitly makes its hot global variables 128 bytes
aligned (2 cache lines) to avoid this kind of extended false sharing.
So add an option "--double-cl" for 'perf c2c report' to show false
sharing in double cache line granularity, which acts just like the
cacheline size is doubled. There is no change to c2c record. The
hardware events of shared cacheline are still per cacheline, and this
option just changes the granularity of how events are grouped and
displayed.
In the 'perf c2c report' output below (will-it-scale's 'pagefault2' case
on old kernel):
----------------------------------------------------------------------
26 31 2 0 0 0 0xffff888103ec6000
----------------------------------------------------------------------
35.48% 50.00% 0.00% 0.00% 0.00% 0x10 0 1 0xffffffff8133148b 1153 66 971 3748 74 [k] get_mem_cgroup_from_mm
6.45% 0.00% 0.00% 0.00% 0.00% 0x10 0 1 0xffffffff813396e4 570 0 1531 879 75 [k] mem_cgroup_charge
25.81% 50.00% 0.00% 0.00% 0.00% 0x54 0 1 0xffffffff81331472 949 70 593 3359 74 [k] get_mem_cgroup_from_mm
19.35% 0.00% 0.00% 0.00% 0.00% 0x54 0 1 0xffffffff81339686 1352 0 1073 1022 74 [k] mem_cgroup_charge
9.68% 0.00% 0.00% 0.00% 0.00% 0x54 0 1 0xffffffff813396d6 1401 0 863 768 74 [k] mem_cgroup_charge
3.23% 0.00% 0.00% 0.00% 0.00% 0x54 0 1 0xffffffff81333106 618 0 804 11 9 [k] uncharge_batch
The offset 0x10 and 0x54 used to displayed in 2 groups, and now they are
listed together to give users a hint of extended false sharing.
[1]. https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20201102091543.GM31092@shao2-debian/
Committer notes:
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/Y+wvVNWqXb70l4uy@feng-clx
Removed -a, leaving just as --double-cl, as this probably is not used so
frequently and perhaps will be even auto-detected if we manage to record
the MSR where this is configured.
Reviewed-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Leo Yan <leo.yan@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Feng Tang <feng.tang@intel.com>
Tested-by: Leo Yan <leo.yan@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Joe Mario <jmario@redhat.com>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@intel.com>
Cc: Xing Zhengjun <zhengjun.xing@linux.intel.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230214075823.246414-1-feng.tang@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Setup is non-trivial so also link to the full SPE docs.
Signed-off-by: James Clark <james.clark@arm.com>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Leo Yan <leo.yan@linaro.org>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: linux-perf-users@vger.kernel.or
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230124145929.557891-1-james.clark@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
In the context of LBR stitching documentation.
Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Acked-by: Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Ali Saidi <alisaidi@amazon.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: James Clark <james.clark@arm.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Leo Yan <leo.yan@linaro.org>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Ravi Bangoria <ravi.bangoria@amd.com>
Cc: Sandipan Das <sandipan.das@amd.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230119201036.156441-1-irogers@google.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
The 'perf mem' and 'perf c2c' tools are wrappers around 'perf record'
with mem load/ store events. IBS tagged load/store sample provides most
of the information needed for these tools. Wire in the "ibs_op//" event
as mem-ldst event for AMD.
There are some limitations though: Only load/store micro-ops provide
mem/c2c information. Whereas, IBS does not have a way to choose a
particular type of micro-op to tag. This results in many non-LS
micro-ops being tagged which appear as N/A in the perf report. IBS,
being an uncore pmu from kernel point of view[1], does not support per
process monitoring. Thus, perf mem/c2c on AMD are currently supported in
per-cpu mode only.
Example:
$ sudo perf mem record -- -c 10000
^C[ perf record: Woken up 227 times to write data ]
[ perf record: Captured and wrote 58.760 MB perf.data (836978 samples) ]
$ sudo perf mem report -F mem,sample,snoop
Samples: 836K of event 'ibs_op//', Event count (approx.): 8418762
Memory access Samples Snoop
N/A 700620 N/A
L1 hit 126675 N/A
L2 hit 424 N/A
L3 hit 664 HitM
L3 hit 10 N/A
Local RAM hit 2 N/A
Remote RAM (1 hop) hit 8558 N/A
Remote Cache (1 hop) hit 3 N/A
Remote Cache (1 hop) hit 2 HitM
Remote Cache (2 hops) hit 10 HitM
Remote Cache (2 hops) hit 6 N/A
Uncached hit 4 N/A
$
[1]: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20220829113347.295-1-ravi.bangoria@amd.com
Signed-off-by: Ravi Bangoria <ravi.bangoria@amd.com>
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Ali Saidi <alisaidi@amazon.com>
Cc: Ananth Narayan <ananth.narayan@amd.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Joe Mario <jmario@redhat.com>
Cc: Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Kim Phillips <kim.phillips@amd.com>
Cc: Leo Yan <leo.yan@linaro.org>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Sandipan Das <sandipan.das@amd.com>
Cc: Santosh Shukla <santosh.shukla@amd.com>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: x86@kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221006153946.7816-6-ravi.bangoria@amd.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Since the new display option 'peer' is introduced, this patch is to
update the documentation to reflect it.
Reviewed-by: Ali Saidi <alisaidi@amazon.com>
Signed-off-by: Leo Yan <leo.yan@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@arm.com>
Cc: German Gomez <german.gomez@arm.com>
Cc: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavoars@kernel.org>
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: Kajol Jain <kjain@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Like Xu <likexu@tencent.com>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Mike Leach <mike.leach@linaro.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Timothy Hayes <timothy.hayes@arm.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220811062451.435810-16-leo.yan@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
The 'N/A' metric is added for store operations, update documentation to
reflect changes in the report table.
Signed-off-by: Leo Yan <leo.yan@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Adam Li <adamli@amperemail.onmicrosoft.com>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Ali Saidi <alisaidi@amazon.com>
Cc: Alyssa Ross <hi@alyssa.is>
Cc: German Gomez <german.gomez@arm.com>
Cc: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: James Clark <james.clark@arm.com>
Cc: Joe Mario <jmario@redhat.com>
Cc: Kajol Jain <kjain@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Li Huafei <lihuafei1@huawei.com>
Cc: Like Xu <likexu@tencent.com>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220518055729.1869566-4-leo.yan@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Considering that perf and its subcommands have so many parameters, the
documentation is always the first stop for perf beginners. Fixing some
spelling errors will relax the eyes of some readers a little bit.
s/specicfication/specification/
s/caheline/cacheline/
s/tranasaction/transaction/
s/complan/complain/
s/sched_wakep/sched_wakeup/
s/possble/possible/
s/methology/methodology/
Signed-off-by: Like Xu <likexu@tencent.com>
Acked-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Link: http://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20210924081942.38368-1-likexu@tencent.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
" -- " is an em dash (—) in asciidoc, so all these examples that were
supposed to be producing a literal two dashes were being misrendered.
Signed-off-by: Alyssa Ross <hi@alyssa.is>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20210809153226.332545-1-hi@alyssa.is
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
The output format for metrics has been reorganized, update documentation
to reflect the changes for it.
Signed-off-by: Leo Yan <leo.yan@linaro.org>
Cc: Al Grant <al.grant@arm.com>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Cc: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Cc: James Clark <james.clark@arm.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Joe Mario <jmario@redhat.com>
Cc: Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20201015144548.18482-10-leo.yan@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
When the event is passed as list, the default events should be listed as
per 'perf mem record -e list'. Previous behavior is:
$ perf c2c record -e list
failed: event 'list' not found, use '-e list' to get list of available events
Usage: perf c2c record [<options>] [<command>]
or: perf c2c record [<options>] -- <command> [<options>]
-e, --event <event> event selector. Use 'perf mem record -e list' to list available events
$
New behavior:
$ perf c2c record -e list
ldlat-loads : available
ldlat-stores : available
v3: is a rebase.
v2: addresses review comments by Jiri Olsa.
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20191127081844.GH32367@krava/
Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Link: http://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200507220604.3391-1-irogers@google.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
With the LBR stitching approach, the reconstructed LBR call stack can
break the HW limitation. However, it may reconstruct invalid call stacks
in some cases, e.g. exception handing such as setjmp/longjmp. Also, it
may impact the processing time especially when the number of samples
with stitched LBRs are huge.
Add an option to enable the approach.
Signed-off-by: Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Alexey Budankov <alexey.budankov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Mathieu Poirier <mathieu.poirier@linaro.org>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Pavel Gerasimov <pavel.gerasimov@intel.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Ravi Bangoria <ravi.bangoria@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Vitaly Slobodskoy <vitaly.slobodskoy@intel.com>
Link: http://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200319202517.23423-17-kan.liang@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
PowerPC hardware does not have a builtin latency filter (--ldlat) for
the "mem-load" event and perf_mem_events by default includes
"/ldlat=30/" which is causing a failure on PowerPC. Refactor the code to
support "perf mem/c2c" on PowerPC.
This patch depends on kernel side changes done my Madhavan:
https://lists.ozlabs.org/pipermail/linuxppc-dev/2018-December/182596.html
Signed-off-by: Ravi Bangoria <ravi.bangoria@linux.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Dick Fowles <fowles@inreach.com>
Cc: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Cc: Joe Mario <jmario@redhat.com>
Cc: Madhavan Srinivasan <maddy@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190129132412.771-1-ravi.bangoria@linux.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
We are going to display NUMA node information in following patches. For
this we need to have physical address data in the sample.
Adding --phys-data as a default option for perf c2c record.
Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Joe Mario <jmario@redhat.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180309101442.9224-5-jolsa@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Mostly in the documentation.
Signed-off-by: Kim Phillips <kim.phillips@arm.com>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170503131350.cebeecd8bd0f2968417626ab@arm.com
[ Fix spelling of "parameter" in one of the spell-checked lines ]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
It seems to be the most used argument for -c option so far. In the
beginning when you want to have the overall process report, so it makes
sense to make it the default one.
Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Cc: Joe Mario <jmario@redhat.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1484904032-11040-5-git-send-email-jolsa@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Currently we display the cacheline list sorted on remote HITMs by
default.
The problem is that they might not be always counted and 'perf c2c
report' displays an empty output. Thus it's more convenient to display
and sort the cacheline list based on the total of HITMs and have the
best change to see data in the default report run.
Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Cc: Joe Mario <jmario@redhat.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1479764011-10732-6-git-send-email-jolsa@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Adding -f/--force option to go through ownership validation:
$ sudo perf c2c report
File perf.data not owned by current user or root (use -f to override)
$
$ sudo perf c2c report -f
< c2c report output >
$
Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Cc: Joe Mario <jmario@redhat.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1479764011-10732-4-git-send-email-jolsa@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Normally we limit the main list to contain only entries with HITM %
value > 0.0005, but it might be useful to display all captured entries.
Adding --show-all option for that.
Requested-and-Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Cc: Joe Mario <jmario@redhat.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-nokgjdwikbegec5jzj4mxhqc@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Add a possibility to disable source line column with new --no-source
option. It source line data could take lot of time to retrieve, so it
could be a performance burden for big data.
Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Cc: Joe Mario <jmario@redhat.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-8p6s2727fq8nbsm3it5gix3p@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Add man page for c2c command and credits to builtin-c2c.c file.
Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Cc: Joe Mario <jmario@redhat.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-twbp391v8v9f5idp584hlfov@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
