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From: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com>
To: Shannon Zhao <zhaoshenglong@huawei.com>,
	kvmarm@lists.cs.columbia.edu, christoffer.dall@linaro.org
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org,
	will.deacon@arm.com, wei@redhat.com, cov@codeaurora.org,
	shannon.zhao@linaro.org, peter.huangpeng@huawei.com,
	hangaohuai@huawei.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v12 03/21] KVM: ARM64: Add offset defines for PMU registers
Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2016 08:33:13 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <56CC1949.2020907@arm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <56CBBA06.4040902@huawei.com>

On 23/02/16 01:46, Shannon Zhao wrote:
> 
> 
> On 2016/2/23 1:51, Marc Zyngier wrote:
>> On 22/02/16 09:37, Shannon Zhao wrote:
>>> From: Shannon Zhao <shannon.zhao@linaro.org>
>>>
>>> We are about to trap and emulate accesses to each PMU register
>>> individually. This adds the context offsets for the AArch64 PMU
>>> registers.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Shannon Zhao <shannon.zhao@linaro.org>
>>> Reviewed-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com>
>>> Reviewed-by: Andrew Jones <drjones@redhat.com>
>>> ---
>>>  arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_host.h | 15 +++++++++++++++
>>>  1 file changed, 15 insertions(+)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_host.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_host.h
>>> index 6f0241f..6bab7fb 100644
>>> --- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_host.h
>>> +++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_host.h
>>> @@ -115,6 +115,21 @@ enum vcpu_sysreg {
>>>  	MDSCR_EL1,	/* Monitor Debug System Control Register */
>>>  	MDCCINT_EL1,	/* Monitor Debug Comms Channel Interrupt Enable Reg */
>>>  
>>> +	/* Performance Monitors Registers */
>>> +	PMCR_EL0,	/* Control Register */
>>> +	PMOVSSET_EL0,	/* Overflow Flag Status Set Register */
>>> +	PMSELR_EL0,	/* Event Counter Selection Register */
>>> +	PMEVCNTR0_EL0,	/* Event Counter Register (0-30) */
>>> +	PMEVCNTR30_EL0 = PMEVCNTR0_EL0 + 30,
>>> +	PMCCNTR_EL0,	/* Cycle Counter Register */
>>> +	PMEVTYPER0_EL0,	/* Event Type Register (0-30) */
>>> +	PMEVTYPER30_EL0 = PMEVTYPER0_EL0 + 30,
>>> +	PMCCFILTR_EL0,	/* Cycle Count Filter Register */
>>> +	PMCNTENSET_EL0,	/* Count Enable Set Register */
>>> +	PMINTENSET_EL1,	/* Interrupt Enable Set Register */
>>> +	PMUSERENR_EL0,	/* User Enable Register */
>>> +	PMSWINC_EL0,	/* Software Increment Register */
>>> +
>>
>> I've just noticed a rather fundamental issue with this: this makes it
>> impossible to bisect the whole series.
>>
> Ah, sorry. Will fix this.

Thanks.

> 
>> I was trying to pinpoint a performance regression with this series, and
>> started bisecting.
> You mean this series introduce a performance regression? Is there any
> method to measure that? Then I can have a look too.

I'm not quite sure this is related to this series. What I'm observing is
that hackbench runs faster in a VM spawned with kvmtool than the same VM
run with qemu. As in significantly faster (62 vs 55 seconds - 2 vcpus,
1GB memory).

Given that hackbench doesn't do any IO, I don't really see why we should
see a difference. I'll add support for the PMU to kvmtool today, and
I'll be able to see if that has any impact.

	M.
-- 
Jazz is not dead. It just smells funny...

  reply	other threads:[~2016-02-23  8:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-02-22  9:37 [PATCH v12 00/21] KVM: ARM64: Add guest PMU support Shannon Zhao
2016-02-22  9:37 ` [PATCH v12 01/21] ARM64: Move PMU register related defines to asm/perf_event.h Shannon Zhao
2016-02-22  9:37 ` [PATCH v12 02/21] KVM: ARM64: Define PMU data structure for each vcpu Shannon Zhao
2016-02-22  9:37 ` [PATCH v12 03/21] KVM: ARM64: Add offset defines for PMU registers Shannon Zhao
2016-02-22 17:51   ` Marc Zyngier
2016-02-23  1:46     ` Shannon Zhao
2016-02-23  8:33       ` Marc Zyngier [this message]
2016-02-23  9:29       ` Shannon Zhao
2016-02-22  9:37 ` [PATCH v12 04/21] KVM: ARM64: Add access handler for PMCR register Shannon Zhao
2016-02-22  9:37 ` [PATCH v12 05/21] KVM: ARM64: Add access handler for PMSELR register Shannon Zhao
2016-02-22  9:37 ` [PATCH v12 06/21] KVM: ARM64: Add access handler for PMCEID0 and PMCEID1 register Shannon Zhao
2016-02-22  9:37 ` [PATCH v12 07/21] KVM: ARM64: PMU: Add perf event map and introduce perf event creating function Shannon Zhao
2016-02-23 17:42   ` Marc Zyngier
2016-02-24  1:27     ` Shannon Zhao
2016-02-22  9:37 ` [PATCH v12 08/21] KVM: ARM64: Add access handler for event type register Shannon Zhao
2016-02-22  9:37 ` [PATCH v12 09/21] KVM: ARM64: Add access handler for event counter register Shannon Zhao
2016-02-22  9:37 ` [PATCH v12 10/21] KVM: ARM64: Add access handler for PMCNTENSET and PMCNTENCLR register Shannon Zhao
2016-02-22  9:37 ` [PATCH v12 11/21] KVM: ARM64: Add access handler for PMINTENSET and PMINTENCLR register Shannon Zhao
2016-02-22  9:37 ` [PATCH v12 12/21] KVM: ARM64: Add access handler for PMOVSSET and PMOVSCLR register Shannon Zhao
2016-02-22  9:37 ` [PATCH v12 13/21] KVM: ARM64: Add access handler for PMSWINC register Shannon Zhao
2016-02-22  9:37 ` [PATCH v12 14/21] KVM: ARM64: Add helper to handle PMCR register bits Shannon Zhao
2016-02-22  9:37 ` [PATCH v12 15/21] KVM: ARM64: Add access handler for PMUSERENR register Shannon Zhao
2016-02-22  9:37 ` [PATCH v12 16/21] KVM: ARM64: Add PMU overflow interrupt routing Shannon Zhao
2016-02-23 14:14   ` Marc Zyngier
2016-02-23 14:52     ` Shannon Zhao
2016-02-22  9:37 ` [PATCH v12 17/21] KVM: ARM64: Reset PMU state when resetting vcpu Shannon Zhao
2016-02-22  9:37 ` [PATCH v12 18/21] KVM: ARM64: Free perf event of PMU when destroying vcpu Shannon Zhao
2016-02-22  9:37 ` [PATCH v12 19/21] KVM: ARM64: Add a new feature bit for PMUv3 Shannon Zhao
2016-02-22  9:37 ` [PATCH v12 20/21] KVM: ARM: Introduce per-vcpu kvm device controls Shannon Zhao
2016-02-22  9:37 ` [PATCH v12 21/21] KVM: ARM64: Add a new vcpu device control group for PMUv3 Shannon Zhao

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