Re: [PATCH v2 00/14] perf mem/c2c: Add support for AMD

[Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>]

Em Tue, Jul 12, 2022 at 01:35:25PM +0200, Jiri Olsa escreveu:
> On Thu, Jun 16, 2022 at 05:06:23PM +0530, Ravi Bangoria wrote:
> > Perf mem and 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. Enable support for these tools on
> > AMD Zen processors based on IBS Op pmu.
> > 
> > There are some limitations though: Only load/store instructions provide
> > mem/c2c information. However, IBS does not provide a way to choose a
> > particular type of instruction to tag. This results in many non-LS
> > instructions being tagged which appear as N/A. 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
> > 
> > Prepared on amd/perf/core (9886142c7a22) + IBS Zen4 enhancement patches[2]
> > 
> > [1]: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20220113134743.1292-1-ravi.bangoria@amd.com
> > [2]: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20220604044519.594-1-ravi.bangoria@amd.com
> > 
> > v1: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20220525093938.4101-1-ravi.bangoria@amd.com
> > v1->v2:
> >  - Instead of defining macros to extract IBS register bits, use existing
> >    bitfield definitions. Zen4 has introduced additional set of bits in
> >    IBS registers which this series also exploits and thus this series
> >    now depends on IBS Zen4 enhancement patchset.
> >  - Add support for PERF_SAMPLE_WEIGHT_STRUCT. While opening a new event,
> >    perf tool starts with a set of attributes and goes on reverting some
> >    attributes in a predefined order until it succeeds or run out or all
> >    attempts. Here, 1st attempt includes WEIGHT_STRUCT and exclude_guest
> >    which always fails because IBS does not support guest filtering. The
> >    problem however is, perf reverts WEIGHT_STRUCT but keeps trying with
> >    exclude_guest. Thus, although, this series enables WEIGHT_STRUCT
> >    support from kernel, using it from the perf tool need more changes.
> >    I'll try to address this bug later.
> >  - Introduce __PERF_SAMPLE_CALLCHAIN_EARLY to hint generic perf driver
> >    that physical address is set by arch pmu driver and should not be
> >    overwritten.
> > 
> > 
> > Ravi Bangoria (14):
> >   perf/mem: Introduce PERF_MEM_LVLNUM_{EXTN_MEM|IO}
> >   perf/x86/amd: Add IBS OP_DATA2 DataSrc bit definitions
> >   perf/x86/amd: Support PERF_SAMPLE_DATA_SRC
> >   perf/x86/amd: Support PERF_SAMPLE_{WEIGHT|WEIGHT_STRUCT}
> >   perf/x86/amd: Support PERF_SAMPLE_ADDR
> >   perf/x86/amd: Support PERF_SAMPLE_PHY_ADDR
> >   perf tool: Sync include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h header
> >   perf tool: Sync arch/x86/include/asm/amd-ibs.h header
> >   perf mem: Add support for printing PERF_MEM_LVLNUM_{EXTN_MEM|IO}
> >   perf mem/c2c: Set PERF_SAMPLE_WEIGHT for LOAD_STORE events
> >   perf mem/c2c: Add load store event mappings for AMD
> >   perf mem/c2c: Avoid printing empty lines for unsupported events
> >   perf mem: Use more generic term for LFB
> >   perf script: Add missing fields in usage hint
> 
> tools part looks good to me
> 
> Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>

What about the kernel bits? PeterZ? Is this in some tip branch?

- Arnaldo