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From: "Liang, Kan" <kan.liang@linux.intel.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 00/23] PMU refactoring and improvements
Date: Wed, 24 May 2023 10:49:56 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <a8f3654a-17d6-4b89-1b77-5f0116aa7254@linux.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20230522064330.189127-1-irogers@google.com>



On 2023-05-22 2:43 a.m., Ian Rogers wrote:
> Separate the code in pmu.[ch] into the set/list of PMUs and the code
> for a particular PMU. Move the set/list of PMUs code into
> pmus.[ch]. Clean up hybrid code and remove hybrid PMU list, it is
> sufficient to scan PMUs looking for core ones. Add core PMU list and
> perf_pmus__scan_core that just reads core PMUs. Switch code that skips
> non-core PMUs during a perf_pmus__scan, to use the
> perf_pmus__scan_core variant. Don't scan sysfs for PMUs if all such
> PMUs have been previously scanned/loaded. Scanning just core PMUs, for
> the cases it is applicable, can improve the sysfs reading time by more
> than 4 fold on my laptop, as servers generally have many more uncore
> PMUs the improvement there should be larger:
> 
> ```
> $ perf bench internals pmu-scan -i 1000
> Computing performance of sysfs PMU event scan for 1000 times
>   Average core PMU scanning took: 989.231 usec (+- 1.535 usec)
>   Average PMU scanning took: 4309.425 usec (+- 74.322 usec)
> ```
> 
> The patch "perf pmu: Separate pmu and pmus" moves and renames a lot of
> functions, and is consequently large. The changes are trivial, but
> kept together to keep the overall number of patches more reasonable.
> 
> v2. Address Kan's review comments wrt "cycles" -> "cycles:P" and
>     "uncore_pmus" -> "other_pmus".
> 
> Ian Rogers (23):
>   perf tools: Warn if no user requested CPUs match PMU's CPUs
>   perf evlist: Remove evlist__warn_hybrid_group
>   perf evlist: Remove __evlist__add_default
>   perf evlist: Reduce scope of evlist__has_hybrid
>   perf pmu: Remove perf_pmu__hybrid_mounted
>   perf pmu: Detect ARM and hybrid PMUs with sysfs
>   perf pmu: Add is_core to pmu
>   perf pmu: Rewrite perf_pmu__has_hybrid to avoid list
>   perf x86: Iterate hybrid PMUs as core PMUs
>   perf topology: Avoid hybrid list for hybrid topology
>   perf evsel: Compute is_hybrid from PMU being core
>   perf header: Avoid hybrid PMU list in write_pmu_caps
>   perf metrics: Remove perf_pmu__is_hybrid use
>   perf stat: Avoid hybrid PMU list
>   perf mem: Avoid hybrid PMU list
>   perf pmu: Remove perf_pmu__hybrid_pmus list
>   perf pmus: Prefer perf_pmu__scan over perf_pmus__for_each_pmu
>   perf x86 mem: minor refactor to is_mem_loads_aux_event
>   perf pmu: Separate pmu and pmus
>   perf pmus: Split pmus list into core and other
>   perf pmus: Allow just core PMU scanning
>   perf pmus: Avoid repeated sysfs scanning
>   perf pmus: Ensure all PMUs are read for find_by_type


The patch set also triggers Segmentation fault with default mode on my
hybrid machine.

# ./perf stat sleep 1

 Performance counter stats for 'sleep 1':

              0.53 msec task-clock                       #    0.001 CPUs
utilized
                 1      context-switches                 #    1.875 K/sec
                 0      cpu-migrations                   #    0.000 /sec
                68      page-faults                      #  127.476 K/sec
Segmentation fault (core dumped)

Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
evsel__is_hybrid (evsel=0x55555609a1a0) at util/evsel.c:3143
3143            return pmu->is_core;
(gdb) backtrace
#0  evsel__is_hybrid (evsel=0x55555609a1a0) at util/evsel.c:3143
#1  evsel__is_hybrid (evsel=evsel@entry=0x55555609a1a0) at util/evsel.c:3135
#2  0x0000555555759468 in hybrid_uniquify (config=0x555555f931e0
<stat_config>, evsel=0x55555609a1a0)
    at util/stat-display.c:813
#3  uniquify_counter (counter=0x55555609a1a0, config=0x555555f931e0
<stat_config>) at util/stat-display.c:818
#4  print_counter_aggrdata (config=config@entry=0x555555f931e0
<stat_config>,
    counter=counter@entry=0x55555609a1a0, aggr_idx=aggr_idx@entry=0,
os=os@entry=0x7fffffff8fe0)
    at util/stat-display.c:888
#5  0x000055555575b119 in print_counter (os=<optimized out>,
counter=<optimized out>, config=<optimized out>)
    at util/stat-display.c:1019
#6  print_counter (os=0x7fffffff8fe0, counter=0x55555609a1a0,
config=0x555555f931e0 <stat_config>)
    at util/stat-display.c:1009
#7  evlist__print_counters (evlist=0x555556029da0,
config=config@entry=0x555555f931e0 <stat_config>,
    _target=_target@entry=0x555555f42de0 <target>, ts=ts@entry=0x0,
argc=argc@entry=2,
    argv=argv@entry=0x7fffffffe1d0) at util/stat-display.c:1480
#8  0x000055555562009c in print_counters (argv=0x7fffffffe1d0, argc=2,
ts=0x0) at builtin-stat.c:979
#9  print_counters (argv=0x7fffffffe1d0, argc=2, ts=0x0) at
builtin-stat.c:971
#10 cmd_stat (argc=2, argv=0x7fffffffe1d0) at builtin-stat.c:2832
#11 0x00005555556b6670 in run_builtin (p=p@entry=0x555555f9c590
<commands+336>, argc=argc@entry=3,
    argv=argv@entry=0x7fffffffe1d0) at perf.c:323
#12 0x00005555555ff2d9 in handle_internal_command (argv=0x7fffffffe1d0,
argc=3) at perf.c:377
#13 run_argv (argv=<synthetic pointer>, argcp=<synthetic pointer>) at
perf.c:421
#14 main (argc=3, argv=0x7fffffffe1d0) at perf.c:537

Thanks,
Kan
> 
>  tools/perf/arch/arm/util/auxtrace.c   |   7 +-
>  tools/perf/arch/arm/util/cs-etm.c     |   4 +-
>  tools/perf/arch/arm64/util/pmu.c      |   6 +-
>  tools/perf/arch/x86/tests/hybrid.c    |   7 +-
>  tools/perf/arch/x86/util/auxtrace.c   |   5 +-
>  tools/perf/arch/x86/util/evlist.c     |  25 +-
>  tools/perf/arch/x86/util/evsel.c      |  27 +-
>  tools/perf/arch/x86/util/intel-bts.c  |   4 +-
>  tools/perf/arch/x86/util/intel-pt.c   |   4 +-
>  tools/perf/arch/x86/util/mem-events.c |  17 +-
>  tools/perf/arch/x86/util/perf_regs.c  |  15 +-
>  tools/perf/arch/x86/util/topdown.c    |   5 +-
>  tools/perf/bench/pmu-scan.c           |  60 ++--
>  tools/perf/builtin-c2c.c              |   9 +-
>  tools/perf/builtin-list.c             |   4 +-
>  tools/perf/builtin-mem.c              |   9 +-
>  tools/perf/builtin-record.c           |  29 +-
>  tools/perf/builtin-stat.c             |  15 +-
>  tools/perf/builtin-top.c              |  10 +-
>  tools/perf/tests/attr.c               |   4 +-
>  tools/perf/tests/event_groups.c       |   7 +-
>  tools/perf/tests/parse-events.c       |  15 +-
>  tools/perf/tests/parse-metric.c       |   4 +-
>  tools/perf/tests/pmu-events.c         |   6 +-
>  tools/perf/tests/switch-tracking.c    |   4 +-
>  tools/perf/tests/topology.c           |   4 +-
>  tools/perf/util/Build                 |   2 -
>  tools/perf/util/cpumap.h              |   2 +-
>  tools/perf/util/cputopo.c             |  16 +-
>  tools/perf/util/env.c                 |   5 +-
>  tools/perf/util/evlist-hybrid.c       | 162 ---------
>  tools/perf/util/evlist-hybrid.h       |  15 -
>  tools/perf/util/evlist.c              |  67 +++-
>  tools/perf/util/evlist.h              |   9 +-
>  tools/perf/util/evsel.c               |  57 +--
>  tools/perf/util/evsel.h               |   3 -
>  tools/perf/util/header.c              |  27 +-
>  tools/perf/util/mem-events.c          |  17 +-
>  tools/perf/util/metricgroup.c         |   9 +-
>  tools/perf/util/parse-events.c        |  24 +-
>  tools/perf/util/parse-events.y        |   3 +-
>  tools/perf/util/pfm.c                 |   6 +-
>  tools/perf/util/pmu-hybrid.c          |  52 ---
>  tools/perf/util/pmu-hybrid.h          |  32 --
>  tools/perf/util/pmu.c                 | 482 ++------------------------
>  tools/perf/util/pmu.h                 |  26 +-
>  tools/perf/util/pmus.c                | 477 ++++++++++++++++++++++++-
>  tools/perf/util/pmus.h                |  15 +-
>  tools/perf/util/print-events.c        |  15 +-
>  tools/perf/util/python-ext-sources    |   1 -
>  tools/perf/util/stat-display.c        |  21 +-
>  51 files changed, 819 insertions(+), 1032 deletions(-)
>  delete mode 100644 tools/perf/util/evlist-hybrid.c
>  delete mode 100644 tools/perf/util/evlist-hybrid.h
>  delete mode 100644 tools/perf/util/pmu-hybrid.c
>  delete mode 100644 tools/perf/util/pmu-hybrid.h
> 

      parent reply	other threads:[~2023-05-24 14:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-05-22  6:43 [PATCH v2 00/23] PMU refactoring and improvements Ian Rogers
2023-05-22  6:43 ` [PATCH v2 01/23] perf tools: Warn if no user requested CPUs match PMU's CPUs Ian Rogers
2023-05-23 21:59   ` Namhyung Kim
2023-05-22  6:43 ` [PATCH v2 02/23] perf evlist: Remove evlist__warn_hybrid_group Ian Rogers
2023-05-22  6:43 ` [PATCH v2 03/23] perf evlist: Remove __evlist__add_default Ian Rogers
2023-05-22  6:43 ` [PATCH v2 04/23] perf evlist: Reduce scope of evlist__has_hybrid Ian Rogers
2023-05-22  6:43 ` [PATCH v2 05/23] perf pmu: Remove perf_pmu__hybrid_mounted Ian Rogers
2023-05-22  6:43 ` [PATCH v2 06/23] perf pmu: Detect ARM and hybrid PMUs with sysfs Ian Rogers
2023-05-22  6:43 ` [PATCH v2 07/23] perf pmu: Add is_core to pmu Ian Rogers
2023-05-22  6:43 ` [PATCH v2 08/23] perf pmu: Rewrite perf_pmu__has_hybrid to avoid list Ian Rogers
2023-05-22  6:43 ` [PATCH v2 09/23] perf x86: Iterate hybrid PMUs as core PMUs Ian Rogers
2023-05-22  6:43 ` [PATCH v2 10/23] perf topology: Avoid hybrid list for hybrid topology Ian Rogers
2023-05-22  6:43 ` [PATCH v2 11/23] perf evsel: Compute is_hybrid from PMU being core Ian Rogers
2023-05-22  6:43 ` [PATCH v2 12/23] perf header: Avoid hybrid PMU list in write_pmu_caps Ian Rogers
2023-05-22  6:43 ` [PATCH v2 13/23] perf metrics: Remove perf_pmu__is_hybrid use Ian Rogers
2023-05-22  6:43 ` [PATCH v2 14/23] perf stat: Avoid hybrid PMU list Ian Rogers
2023-05-22  6:43 ` [PATCH v2 15/23] perf mem: " Ian Rogers
2023-05-22  6:43 ` [PATCH v2 16/23] perf pmu: Remove perf_pmu__hybrid_pmus list Ian Rogers
2023-05-22  6:43 ` [PATCH v2 17/23] perf pmus: Prefer perf_pmu__scan over perf_pmus__for_each_pmu Ian Rogers
2023-05-22  6:43 ` [PATCH v2 18/23] perf x86 mem: minor refactor to is_mem_loads_aux_event Ian Rogers
2023-05-22  6:43 ` [PATCH v2 19/23] perf pmu: Separate pmu and pmus Ian Rogers
2023-05-22  6:43 ` [PATCH v2 20/23] perf pmus: Split pmus list into core and other Ian Rogers
2023-05-22  6:43 ` [PATCH v2 21/23] perf pmus: Allow just core PMU scanning Ian Rogers
2023-05-22  6:43 ` [PATCH v2 22/23] perf pmus: Avoid repeated sysfs scanning Ian Rogers
2023-05-22  6:43 ` [PATCH v2 23/23] perf pmus: Ensure all PMUs are read for find_by_type Ian Rogers
2023-05-24 14:49 ` Liang, Kan [this message]

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