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From: Matt Fleming <matt@codeblueprint.co.uk>
To: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Matt Fleming <matt@codeblueprint.co.uk>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>, Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>,
	stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] perf/x86/amd: Make HW_CACHE_REFERENCES and HW_CACHE_MISSES measure L2
Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2016 16:21:42 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1470928902-31196-1-git-send-email-matt@codeblueprint.co.uk> (raw)

While the Intel PMU monitors the LLC when perf enables the
HW_CACHE_REFERENCES and HW_CACHE_MISSES events, these events monitor
L1 instruction cache fetches (0x0080) and instruction cache misses
(0x0081) on the AMD PMU.

This is extremely confusing when monitoring the same workload across
Intel and AMD machines, since parameters like,

  $ perf stat -e cache-references,cache-misses

measure completely different things.

Instead, make the AMD PMU measure instruction/data cache fill requests
to the L2 and instruction/data cache misses in the L2 when
HW_CACHE_REFERENCES and HW_CACHE_MISSES are enabled, respectively.
That way the events measure unified caches on both platforms.

Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming <matt@codeblueprint.co.uk>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
---
 arch/x86/events/amd/core.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/events/amd/core.c b/arch/x86/events/amd/core.c
index e07a22bb9308..8fd8bf79f32b 100644
--- a/arch/x86/events/amd/core.c
+++ b/arch/x86/events/amd/core.c
@@ -119,8 +119,8 @@ static const u64 amd_perfmon_event_map[PERF_COUNT_HW_MAX] =
 {
   [PERF_COUNT_HW_CPU_CYCLES]			= 0x0076,
   [PERF_COUNT_HW_INSTRUCTIONS]			= 0x00c0,
-  [PERF_COUNT_HW_CACHE_REFERENCES]		= 0x0080,
-  [PERF_COUNT_HW_CACHE_MISSES]			= 0x0081,
+  [PERF_COUNT_HW_CACHE_REFERENCES]		= 0x037d,
+  [PERF_COUNT_HW_CACHE_MISSES]			= 0x037e,
   [PERF_COUNT_HW_BRANCH_INSTRUCTIONS]		= 0x00c2,
   [PERF_COUNT_HW_BRANCH_MISSES]			= 0x00c3,
   [PERF_COUNT_HW_STALLED_CYCLES_FRONTEND]	= 0x00d0, /* "Decoder empty" event */
-- 
2.7.3

             reply	other threads:[~2016-08-11 15:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-08-11 15:21 Matt Fleming [this message]
2016-08-11 16:41 ` [PATCH] perf/x86/amd: Make HW_CACHE_REFERENCES and HW_CACHE_MISSES measure L2 Borislav Petkov
2016-08-15 15:13   ` Matt Fleming
2016-08-18 16:25     ` Borislav Petkov
2016-08-19 13:34       ` Peter Zijlstra
2016-08-19 14:44         ` Borislav Petkov
2016-08-19 15:16           ` Peter Zijlstra

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