Thresholding, a performance monitoring unit feature, can be
used to identify marked instructions which take more than
expected cycles between start event and end event.
Threshold compare (thresh_cmp) bits are programmed in MMCRA
register. In Power9, thresh_cmp bits were part of the
event code. But in case of P10, thresh_cmp are not part of
event code due to inclusion of MMCR3 bits.
Patch here adds an option to use attr.config1 variable
to be used to pass thresh_cmp value to be programmed in
MMCRA register. A new ppmu flag called PPMU_HAS_ATTR_CONFIG1
has been added and this flag is used to notify the use of
attr.config1 variable.
Patch has extended the parameter list of 'compute_mmcr',
to include power_pmu's 'flags' element and parameter list of
get_constraint to include attr.config1 value. It also extend
parameter list of power_check_constraints inorder to pass
perf_event list.
As stated by commit ef0e3b650f ("powerpc/perf: Fix Threshold
Event Counter Multiplier width for P10"), constraint bits for
thresh_cmp is also needed to be increased to 11 bits, which is
handled as part of this patch. We added bit number 53 as part
of constraint bits of thresh_cmp for power10 to make it an
11 bit field.
Updated layout for p10:
/*
* Layout of constraint bits:
*
* 60 56 52 48 44 40 36 32
* | - - - - | - - - - | - - - - | - - - - | - - - - | - - - - | - - - - | - - - - |
* [ fab_match ] [ thresh_cmp ] [ thresh_ctl ] [ ]
* | |
* [ thresh_cmp bits for p10] thresh_sel -*
*
* 28 24 20 16 12 8 4 0
* | - - - - | - - - - | - - - - | - - - - | - - - - | - - - - | - - - - | - - - - |
* [ ] | [ ] | [ sample ] [ ] [6] [5] [4] [3] [2] [1]
* | | | | |
* BHRB IFM -* | | |*radix_scope | Count of events for each PMC.
* EBB -* | | p1, p2, p3, p4, p5, p6.
* L1 I/D qualifier -* |
* nc - number of counters -*
*
* The PMC fields P1..P6, and NC, are adder fields. As we accumulate constraints
* we want the low bit of each field to be added to any existing value.
*
* Everything else is a value field.
*/
Result:
command#: cat /sys/devices/cpu/format/thresh_cmp
config1:0-17
ex. usage:
command#: perf record -I --weight -d -e
cpu/event=0x67340101EC,thresh_cmp=500/ ./ebizzy -S 2 -t 1 -s 4096
1826636 records/s
real 2.00 s
user 2.00 s
sys 0.00 s
[ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ]
[ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.038 MB perf.data (61 samples) ]
Signed-off-by: Kajol Jain <kjain@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210209095234.837356-1-kjain@linux.ibm.com
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