Re: [PATCH v6 0/4] Add perf interface to expose nvdimm

[kajoljain <kjain@linux.ibm.com>]

On 2/25/22 16:41, Nageswara Sastry wrote:
> 
> 
> On 25/02/22 12:08 pm, kajoljain wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 2/25/22 11:25, Nageswara Sastry wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> On 17/02/22 10:03 pm, Kajol Jain wrote:
>>>> Patchset adds performance stats reporting support for nvdimm.
>>>> Added interface includes support for pmu register/unregister
>>>> functions. A structure is added called nvdimm_pmu to be used for
>>>> adding arch/platform specific data such as cpumask, nvdimm device
>>>> pointer and pmu event functions like event_init/add/read/del.
>>>> User could use the standard perf tool to access perf events
>>>> exposed via pmu.
>>>>
>>>> Interface also defines supported event list, config fields for the
>>>> event attributes and their corresponding bit values which are exported
>>>> via sysfs. Patch 3 exposes IBM pseries platform nmem* device
>>>> performance stats using this interface.
>>>>
>>>> Result from power9 pseries lpar with 2 nvdimm device:
>>>>
>>>> Ex: List all event by perf list
>>>>
>>>> command:# perf list nmem
>>>>
>>>>     nmem0/cache_rh_cnt/                                [Kernel PMU
>>>> event]
>>>>     nmem0/cache_wh_cnt/                                [Kernel PMU
>>>> event]
>>>>     nmem0/cri_res_util/                                [Kernel PMU
>>>> event]
>>>>     nmem0/ctl_res_cnt/                                 [Kernel PMU
>>>> event]
>>>>     nmem0/ctl_res_tm/                                  [Kernel PMU
>>>> event]
>>>>     nmem0/fast_w_cnt/                                  [Kernel PMU
>>>> event]
>>>>     nmem0/host_l_cnt/                                  [Kernel PMU
>>>> event]
>>>>     nmem0/host_l_dur/                                  [Kernel PMU
>>>> event]
>>>>     nmem0/host_s_cnt/                                  [Kernel PMU
>>>> event]
>>>>     nmem0/host_s_dur/                                  [Kernel PMU
>>>> event]
>>>>     nmem0/med_r_cnt/                                   [Kernel PMU
>>>> event]
>>>>     nmem0/med_r_dur/                                   [Kernel PMU
>>>> event]
>>>>     nmem0/med_w_cnt/                                   [Kernel PMU
>>>> event]
>>>>     nmem0/med_w_dur/                                   [Kernel PMU
>>>> event]
>>>>     nmem0/mem_life/                                    [Kernel PMU
>>>> event]
>>>>     nmem0/poweron_secs/                                [Kernel PMU
>>>> event]
>>>>     ...
>>>>     nmem1/mem_life/                                    [Kernel PMU
>>>> event]
>>>>     nmem1/poweron_secs/                                [Kernel PMU
>>>> event]
>>>>
>>>> Patch1:
>>>>           Introduces the nvdimm_pmu structure
>>>> Patch2:
>>>>           Adds common interface to add arch/platform specific data
>>>>           includes nvdimm device pointer, pmu data along with
>>>>           pmu event functions. It also defines supported event list
>>>>           and adds attribute groups for format, events and cpumask.
>>>>           It also adds code for cpu hotplug support.
>>>> Patch3:
>>>>           Add code in arch/powerpc/platform/pseries/papr_scm.c to
>>>> expose
>>>>           nmem* pmu. It fills in the nvdimm_pmu structure with pmu
>>>> name,
>>>>           capabilities, cpumask and event functions and then registers
>>>>           the pmu by adding callbacks to register_nvdimm_pmu.
>>>> Patch4:
>>>>           Sysfs documentation patch
>>>>
>>>> Changelog
>>>
>>> Tested these patches with the automated tests at
>>> avocado-misc-tests/perf/perf_nmem.py
>>> URL:
>>> https://github.com/avocado-framework-tests/avocado-misc-tests/blob/master/perf/perf_nmem.py
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> 1. On the system where target id and online id were different then not
>>> seeing value in 'cpumask' and those tests failed.
>>>
>>> Example:
>>> Log from dmesg
>>> ...
>>> papr_scm ibm,persistent-memory:ibm,pmemory@44100003: Region registered
>>> with target node 1 and online node 0
>>> ...
>>
>> Hi Nageswara Sastry,
>>         Thanks for testing the patch set. Yes you right, incase target
>> node id and online node id is different, it can happen when target
>> node is not online and hence can cause this issue, thanks for pointing
>> it.
>>
>> Function dev_to_node will return node id for a given nvdimm device which
>> can be offline in some scenarios. We should use numa node id return by
>> numa_map_to_online_node function in that scenario. This function incase
>> given node is offline, it will lookup for next closest online node and
>> return that nodeid.
>>
>> Can you try with below change and see, if you are still getting this
>> issue. Please let me know.
>>
>> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/papr_scm.c
>> b/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/papr_scm.c
>> index bdf2620db461..4dd513d7c029 100644
>> --- a/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/papr_scm.c
>> +++ b/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/papr_scm.c
>> @@ -536,7 +536,7 @@ static void papr_scm_pmu_register(struct
>> papr_scm_priv *p)
>>                                  PERF_PMU_CAP_NO_EXCLUDE;
>>
>>          /*updating the cpumask variable */
>> -       nodeid = dev_to_node(&p->pdev->dev);
>> +       nodeid = numa_map_to_online_node(dev_to_node(&p->pdev->dev));
>>          nd_pmu->arch_cpumask = *cpumask_of_node(nodeid);
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Kajol Jain
>>
> 
> With the above patch all the tests are passing on the system where
> target id and online id were different. Here is the the result:
> 
> (1/9) perf_nmem.py:perfNMEM.test_pmu_register_dmesg: PASS (3.47 s)
> (2/9) perf_nmem.py:perfNMEM.test_sysfs: PASS (1.15 s)
> (3/9) perf_nmem.py:perfNMEM.test_pmu_count: PASS (1.08 s)
> (4/9) perf_nmem.py:perfNMEM.test_all_events: PASS (18.15 s)
> (5/9) perf_nmem.py:perfNMEM.test_all_group_events: PASS (2.22 s)
> (6/9) perf_nmem.py:perfNMEM.test_mixed_events: CANCEL: With single PMU
> mixed events test is not possible. (1.18 s)
> (7/9) perf_nmem.py:perfNMEM.test_pmu_cpumask: PASS (1.12 s)
> (8/9) perf_nmem.py:perfNMEM.test_cpumask: PASS (1.17 s)
> (9/9) perf_nmem.py:perfNMEM.test_cpumask_cpu_off: PASS (1.81 s)
> 
> Tested-by: Nageswara R Sastry <rnsastry@linux.ibm.com>

Hi Nageswara,
   Thanks for testing this change. I will send new patch series v7 with
this change and also include your Tested-by tag.

Thanks,
Kajol Jain

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