From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S937203Ab0COXiz (ORCPT ); Mon, 15 Mar 2010 19:38:55 -0400 Received: from e34.co.us.ibm.com ([32.97.110.152]:43980 "EHLO e34.co.us.ibm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S933017Ab0COXix (ORCPT ); Mon, 15 Mar 2010 19:38:53 -0400 Message-ID: <4B9EC50E.80702@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2010 16:38:54 -0700 From: Corey Ashford User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.8) Gecko/20100227 Thunderbird/3.0.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ingo Molnar CC: LKML , Peter Zijlstra , Frederic Weisbecker , Steven Rostedt Subject: Re: [RFC] [PATCH 1/1] perf: add support for arch-dependent symbolic event names to "perf stat" References: <4B8F1B58.5000702@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <4B8FFE55.5070008@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <20100311124608.GG31354@elte.hu> <4B993AAF.9050507@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <20100311191441.GA7593@elte.hu> <4B99568D.30608@linux.vnet.ibm.com> In-Reply-To: <4B99568D.30608@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 3/11/2010 12:46 PM, Corey Ashford wrote: > > > On 3/11/2010 11:14 AM, Ingo Molnar wrote: >> >> * Corey Ashford wrote: > [snip] >>> I'm not sure how that would work. The issue I am trying to solve >>> here is that Power arch chips have a large number of very >>> hardware-specific events that are not generalizable. Many of these >>> events not only have names, but other user-configurable bits as well >>> that select or narrow the scope of which exact events are recorded. >>> This issue is dealt with nicely in libpfm4, as it has mechanisms for >>> parsing event names and attributes (aka modifiers or unit masks), >>> and then produces a usable config field for the perf_events_attr >>> struct. >>> >>> Should I take it from the above that you are completely against the >>> idea of using an external library for hardware-specific event and >>> attribute naming? >> >> Could you give a few relevant examples of events in question, and the >> kind of >> configurability/attributes they have on Power? > > Here are a few examples for the Power A2 processor. I've distorted the > names because PMU architecture isn't publicly released yet. > > PM_DE_PMC_9:hrd_mask=0xff:hrd=0x22:pma_mask=0x3fff:pma=0x1b2d:culling_mode=3 > > PM_EX_0x03:lane=2:vlane=1 > PM_OWE_ENG_MAC_FULL:usu=3 Just a follow-up note to this... I learned that the much of the high-level architecture of the new chip that IBM is working on has been publicly released recently, so I have "undistorted" the event names below: PM_DC_PMC_9:lpid_mask=0xff:lpid=0x22:pid_mask=0x3fff:pid=0x1b2d:marking_mode=3 PM_REGX_0x03:lane=2:vlane=1 PM_XML_ENG_MAC_FULL:sus=3 DC = Decompression/Compression accelerator PMC_9 = Peformance monitoring event 9 REGX = Regular eXpression accelerator XML = XML parsing accelerator pid = process id to match pid_mask = process id match mask lpid = logical partition id lpid_mask = logical partition id mask sus = source unit select lane, vlane = signal routing fields marking_mode = used to determine which accelerator work units to mark for performance monitoring - Corey