From: Matt Turner <mattst88@gmail.com>
To: Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org>,
Magnus Lindholm <linmag7@gmail.com>,
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>,
Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>,
Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>,
Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>,
Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>, Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>,
Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>,
James Clark <james.clark@linaro.org>
Cc: linux-alpha@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-perf-users@vger.kernel.org,
Matt Turner <mattst88@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH v2 4/5] alpha/perf: attach ProfileMe status as PERF_SAMPLE_RAW data
Date: Fri, 30 Oct 2026 00:04:02 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20261030-alpha-profileme-v2-4-c702f1c65272@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20261030-alpha-profileme-v2-0-c702f1c65272@gmail.com>
A ProfileMe sample's PC alone does not say what happened to the profiled
instruction. I_STAT and PCTR_CTL do: whether it trapped and why, was
mispredicted, stalled, or was killed on a wrong path, and what PCTR1
counted during the window.
With PERF_SAMPLE_RAW, attach PMPC, I_STAT and PCTR_CTL to each ProfileMe
sample in a versioned struct alpha_profileme_sample. PMPC is included
because a PALmode PMPC is not the sample's IP. Killed instructions can be
told apart by PM_KILLED_BM and VAL. The 64-bit fields are packed after
the 32-bit version, since the payload follows the 32-bit raw size in the
sample record: they are then 8-byte aligned in the record, which needs
no padding.
Signed-off-by: Matt Turner <mattst88@gmail.com>
---
arch/alpha/include/asm/perf_event.h | 2 ++
arch/alpha/include/uapi/asm/perf_event.h | 31 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
arch/alpha/kernel/perf_event.c | 22 +++++++++++++++++++---
3 files changed, 52 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/alpha/include/asm/perf_event.h b/arch/alpha/include/asm/perf_event.h
index 72536566014a..f498c1d47c07 100644
--- a/arch/alpha/include/asm/perf_event.h
+++ b/arch/alpha/include/asm/perf_event.h
@@ -1,6 +1,8 @@
#ifndef __ASM_ALPHA_PERF_EVENT_H
#define __ASM_ALPHA_PERF_EVENT_H
+#include <uapi/asm/perf_event.h>
+
/*
* Software events have no trap frame, so perf_fetch_caller_regs() fills
* in a zeroed pt_regs. A zero ps already means kernel mode; only pc is
diff --git a/arch/alpha/include/uapi/asm/perf_event.h b/arch/alpha/include/uapi/asm/perf_event.h
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..aa0eff5a917c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/arch/alpha/include/uapi/asm/perf_event.h
@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
+/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note */
+#ifndef _UAPI_ASM_ALPHA_PERF_EVENT_H
+#define _UAPI_ASM_ALPHA_PERF_EVENT_H
+
+#include <linux/types.h>
+
+/*
+ * PERF_SAMPLE_RAW payload of a ProfileMe sample from the cpu PMU.
+ *
+ * pmpc, i_stat and pctr_ctl are the values of the PMPC, I_STAT and
+ * PCTR_CTL registers when the ProfileMe window closed. i_stat holds only
+ * bits 40:30 and pctr_ctl only bits 47:0. See the EV67/EV68 Hardware
+ * Reference Manuals for the field layout.
+ *
+ * In the sample record the payload follows the 32-bit PERF_SAMPLE_RAW
+ * size, so it starts 4 bytes past an 8-byte boundary. The 64-bit fields
+ * are packed after the 32-bit version so that they are 8-byte aligned in
+ * the record and no padding follows the payload.
+ *
+ * Fields may be added to the end in later versions.
+ */
+#define ALPHA_PROFILEME_SAMPLE_VERSION 1
+
+struct alpha_profileme_sample {
+ __u32 version;
+ __u64 pmpc __attribute__((packed));
+ __u64 i_stat __attribute__((packed));
+ __u64 pctr_ctl __attribute__((packed));
+};
+
+#endif /* _UAPI_ASM_ALPHA_PERF_EVENT_H */
diff --git a/arch/alpha/kernel/perf_event.c b/arch/alpha/kernel/perf_event.c
index c7f0ccf8ec80..c9d4b13817bc 100644
--- a/arch/alpha/kernel/perf_event.c
+++ b/arch/alpha/kernel/perf_event.c
@@ -944,10 +944,13 @@ static void alpha_perf_event_profileme(struct perf_event *event,
struct hw_perf_event *hwc,
struct pt_regs *regs)
{
+ struct alpha_profileme_sample pm;
+ struct perf_raw_record raw;
struct perf_sample_data data;
struct pt_regs *pm_regs;
- unsigned long i_stat, pmpc, ovr, pc, saved_pc, saved_ps;
+ unsigned long pctr_ctl, i_stat, pmpc, ovr, pc, saved_pc, saved_ps;
+ pctr_ctl = wrperfmon(PERFMON_CMD_READ, 0);
i_stat = wrperfmon(PERFMON_CMD_I_STAT, 0);
pmpc = wrperfmon(PERFMON_CMD_PMPC, 0);
@@ -982,8 +985,8 @@ static void alpha_perf_event_profileme(struct perf_event *event,
* happens for ITB miss, Istream access violation and interrupt
* redirects, and for instructions inside PALcode. Keep the
* interrupted PC, which for redirects is the instruction that
- * trapped. Do the same for a user PMPC in a kernel thread, which has
- * no user frame.
+ * trapped, and report the real PMPC in the raw data. Do the same
+ * for a user PMPC in a kernel thread, which has no user frame.
*/
pm_regs = regs;
pc = pmpc & EV67_PMPC_PC_MASK;
@@ -1001,6 +1004,19 @@ static void alpha_perf_event_profileme(struct perf_event *event,
perf_sample_data_init(&data, 0, hwc->last_period);
+ pm.version = ALPHA_PROFILEME_SAMPLE_VERSION;
+ pm.pmpc = pmpc;
+ pm.i_stat = i_stat;
+ /* PALcode sign-extends bit 47 of PCTR_CTL. */
+ pm.pctr_ctl = pctr_ctl & GENMASK(47, 0);
+ raw = (struct perf_raw_record) {
+ .frag = {
+ .size = sizeof(pm),
+ .data = &pm,
+ },
+ };
+ perf_sample_save_raw_data(&data, event, &raw);
+
if (!alpha_perf_event_set_period(event, hwc, 0))
return;
--
2.55.0
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-10-30 4:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-10-30 4:03 [PATCH v2 0/5] alpha/perf: add ProfileMe sampling Matt Turner
2026-10-30 4:03 ` [PATCH v2 1/5] alpha/perf: pass PERFMON_CMD_LOGGING_ALL to the logging options call Matt Turner
2026-10-30 4:07 ` sashiko-bot
2026-10-30 4:04 ` [PATCH v2 2/5] alpha/perf: add sysfs format and event attributes Matt Turner
2026-10-30 4:07 ` sashiko-bot
2026-10-30 4:04 ` [PATCH v2 3/5] alpha/perf: implement ProfileMe sampling Matt Turner
2026-10-30 4:04 ` Matt Turner [this message]
2026-10-30 4:10 ` [PATCH v2 4/5] alpha/perf: attach ProfileMe status as PERF_SAMPLE_RAW data sashiko-bot
2026-10-30 4:04 ` [PATCH v2 5/5] alpha/perf: optionally randomize the ProfileMe sampling interval Matt Turner
2026-10-30 4:11 ` sashiko-bot
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