Re: [PATCH v6 00/26] perf tool: AlderLake hybrid support series 1

[Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>]

On Tue, Apr 27, 2021 at 03:01:13PM +0800, Jin Yao wrote:
> AlderLake uses a hybrid architecture utilizing Golden Cove cores
> (core cpu) and Gracemont cores (atom cpu). Each cpu has dedicated
> event list. Some events are available on core cpu, some events
> are available on atom cpu and some events can be available on both.
> 
> Kernel exports new pmus "cpu_core" and "cpu_atom" through sysfs:
> /sys/devices/cpu_core
> /sys/devices/cpu_atom
> 
> cat /sys/devices/cpu_core/cpus
> 0-15
> 
> cat /sys/devices/cpu_atom/cpus
> 16-23
> 
> In this example, core cpus are 0-15 and atom cpus are 16-23.
> 
> To enable a core only event or atom only event:
> 
>         cpu_core/<event name>/
> or
>         cpu_atom/<event name>/
> 
> Count the 'cycles' event on core cpus.
> 
>   # perf stat -e cpu_core/cycles/ -a -- sleep 1
> 
>    Performance counter stats for 'system wide':
> 
>       12,853,951,349      cpu_core/cycles/
> 
>          1.002581249 seconds time elapsed
> 
> If one event is available on both atom cpu and core cpu, two events
> are created automatically.
> 
>   # perf stat -e cycles -a -- sleep 1
> 
>    Performance counter stats for 'system wide':
> 
>       12,856,467,438      cpu_core/cycles/
>        6,404,634,785      cpu_atom/cycles/
> 
>          1.002453013 seconds time elapsed
> 
> Group is supported if the events are from same pmu, otherwise a warning
> is displayed and disable grouping automatically.
> 
>   # perf stat -e '{cpu_core/cycles/,cpu_core/instructions/}' -a -- sleep 1
> 
>    Performance counter stats for 'system wide':
> 
>       12,863,866,968      cpu_core/cycles/
>          554,795,017      cpu_core/instructions/
> 
>          1.002616117 seconds time elapsed
> 
>   # perf stat -e '{cpu_core/cycles/,cpu_atom/instructions/}' -a -- sleep 1
>   WARNING: events in group from different hybrid PMUs!
>   WARNING: grouped events cpus do not match, disabling group:
>     anon group { cpu_core/cycles/, cpu_atom/instructions/ }
> 
>    Performance counter stats for 'system wide':
> 
>            6,283,970      cpu_core/cycles/
>              765,635      cpu_atom/instructions/
> 
>          1.003959036 seconds time elapsed
> 
> Note that, since the whole patchset for AlderLake hybrid support is very
> large (40+ patches). For simplicity, it's splitted into several patch
> series.
> 
> The patch series 1 only supports the basic functionality. The advanced
> supports for perf-c2c/perf-mem/topdown/metrics/topology header and others
> will be added in follow-up patch series.
> 
> The perf tool codes can also be found at:
> https://github.com/yaoj/perf.git

hi,
did you update the branch for v6? I think I can't see
the new update there

thanks,
jirka

> 
> Note that, this patch series is based on tmp.perf/core branch.
> 
> v6:
> ---
> - Rebase to tmp.perf/core branch.
> 
> - A minor update in v6 patch series.
> 
>   In '[PATCH v6 18/26] perf tests: Add hybrid cases for 'Parse event
>   definition strings' test', we add a test case for cache events with
>   pmu prefix.
> 
>   No other updates.
> 
> v5:
> ---
> - Now Liang Kan's patch series for AlderLake perf core support has been
>   upstreamed. So the interface for perf tool part will not be changed.
> 
> - '[PATCH v5 12/26] perf parse-events: Support event inside hybrid pmu',
>    check the head_config list has only one term and if yes then do the
>    second parsing. We drop the 'parsed' param and make parse_events__with_hybrid_pmu
>    return 0 when we find some event.
> 
>    Move 'evsel->use_config_name = true;' to the patch
>    '[PATCH v5 07/26] perf stat: Uniquify hybrid event name'.
> 
> - '[PATCH v5 14/26] perf stat: Add default hybrid events',
>    do the same way like when topdown calls parse events for checking
>    result and displayt the error.
> 
> - '[PATCH v5 15/26] perf stat: Filter out unmatched aggregation for hybrid event',
>    use Jiri's code to filter, which is much simpler than original.
> 
> - Some perf test minor updates.
> 
> v4:
> ---
> - In Liang Kan's patch:
>   '[PATCH V6 21/25] perf: Extend PERF_TYPE_HARDWARE and PERF_TYPE_HW_CACHE',
>   the user interface for hardware events and cache events are changed, so
>   perf tool patches are changed as well.
> 
> - Fix an issue when atom CPUs are offlined. "/sys/bus/event_source/devices/cpu_atom/cpus"
>   exists but the content is empty. For this case, we can't enable the cpu_atom
>   PMU. '[PATCH v4 05/25] perf pmu: Save detected hybrid pmus to a global pmu list'
> 
> - Define 'ret' variable for return value in patch
>   '[PATCH v4 09/25] perf parse-events: Create two hybrid cache events'
> 
> - Directly return add_raw_hybrid() in patch
>   '[PATCH v4 10/25] perf parse-events: Create two hybrid raw events'
> 
> - Drop the patch 'perf pmu: Support 'cycles' and 'branches' inside
>   hybrid PMU'.
> 
> - Separate '[PATCH v3 12/27] perf parse-events: Support no alias assigned event
>   inside hybrid PMU' into two patches:
>   '[PATCH v4 11/25] perf parse-events: Compare with hybrid pmu name'
>   '[PATCH v4 12/25] perf parse-events: Support event inside hybrid pmu'.
>   And these two patches are improved according to Jiri's comments.
> 
> v3:
> ---
> - Drop 'perf evlist: Hybrid event uses its own cpus'. This patch is wide
>   and actually it's not very necessary. The current perf framework has
>   processed the cpus for evsel well even for hybrid evsel. So this patch can
>   be dropped.
> 
> - Drop 'perf evsel: Adjust hybrid event and global event mixed group'.
>   The patch is a bit tricky and hard to understand. In v3, we will disable
>   grouping when the group members are from different PMUs. So this patch
>   would be not necessary.
> 
> - Create parse-events-hybrid.c/parse-events-hybrid.h and evlist-hybrid.c/evlist-hybrid.h.
>   Move hybrid related codes to these files.
> 
> - Create a new patch 'perf pmu: Support 'cycles' and 'branches' inside hybrid PMU' to
>   support 'cycles' and 'branches' inside PMU.
> 
> - Create a new patch 'perf record: Uniquify hybrid event name' to tell user the
>   pmu which the event belongs to for perf-record.
> 
> - If group members are from different hybrid PMUs, shows warning and disable
>   grouping.
> 
> - Other refining and refactoring.
> 
> v2:
> ---
> - Drop kernel patches (Kan posted the series "Add Alder Lake support for perf (kernel)" separately).
> - Drop the patches for perf-c2c/perf-mem/topdown/metrics/topology header supports,
>   which will be added in series 2 or series 3.
> - Simplify the arguments of __perf_pmu__new_alias() by passing
>   the 'struct pme_event' pointer.
> - Check sysfs validity before access.
> - Use pmu style event name, such as "cpu_core/cycles/".
> - Move command output two chars to the right.
> - Move pmu hybrid functions to new created pmu-hybrid.c/pmu-hybrid.h.
>   This is to pass the perf test python case.
> 
> Jin Yao (26):
>   tools headers uapi: Update tools's copy of linux/perf_event.h
>   perf jevents: Support unit value "cpu_core" and "cpu_atom"
>   perf pmu: Simplify arguments of __perf_pmu__new_alias
>   perf pmu: Save pmu name
>   perf pmu: Save detected hybrid pmus to a global pmu list
>   perf pmu: Add hybrid helper functions
>   perf stat: Uniquify hybrid event name
>   perf parse-events: Create two hybrid hardware events
>   perf parse-events: Create two hybrid cache events
>   perf parse-events: Create two hybrid raw events
>   perf parse-events: Compare with hybrid pmu name
>   perf parse-events: Support event inside hybrid pmu
>   perf record: Create two hybrid 'cycles' events by default
>   perf stat: Add default hybrid events
>   perf stat: Filter out unmatched aggregation for hybrid event
>   perf stat: Warn group events from different hybrid PMU
>   perf record: Uniquify hybrid event name
>   perf tests: Add hybrid cases for 'Parse event definition strings' test
>   perf tests: Add hybrid cases for 'Roundtrip evsel->name' test
>   perf tests: Skip 'Setup struct perf_event_attr' test for hybrid
>   perf tests: Support 'Track with sched_switch' test for hybrid
>   perf tests: Support 'Parse and process metrics' test for hybrid
>   perf tests: Support 'Session topology' test for hybrid
>   perf tests: Support 'Convert perf time to TSC' test for hybrid
>   perf tests: Skip 'perf stat metrics (shadow stat) test' for hybrid
>   perf Documentation: Document intel-hybrid support
> 
>  include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h            |  15 ++
>  tools/include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h      |  15 ++
>  tools/perf/Documentation/intel-hybrid.txt  | 214 +++++++++++++++++++++
>  tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt   |   1 +
>  tools/perf/Documentation/perf-stat.txt     |   2 +
>  tools/perf/builtin-record.c                |  47 ++++-
>  tools/perf/builtin-stat.c                  |  36 ++++
>  tools/perf/pmu-events/jevents.c            |   2 +
>  tools/perf/tests/attr.c                    |   4 +
>  tools/perf/tests/evsel-roundtrip-name.c    |  19 +-
>  tools/perf/tests/parse-events.c            | 171 ++++++++++++++++
>  tools/perf/tests/parse-metric.c            |   8 +-
>  tools/perf/tests/perf-time-to-tsc.c        |  12 ++
>  tools/perf/tests/shell/stat+shadow_stat.sh |   3 +
>  tools/perf/tests/switch-tracking.c         |   6 +-
>  tools/perf/tests/topology.c                |  13 +-
>  tools/perf/util/Build                      |   3 +
>  tools/perf/util/evlist-hybrid.c            |  88 +++++++++
>  tools/perf/util/evlist-hybrid.h            |  14 ++
>  tools/perf/util/evlist.c                   |   5 +-
>  tools/perf/util/evsel.c                    |  12 +-
>  tools/perf/util/evsel.h                    |   4 +-
>  tools/perf/util/parse-events-hybrid.c      | 178 +++++++++++++++++
>  tools/perf/util/parse-events-hybrid.h      |  23 +++
>  tools/perf/util/parse-events.c             |  97 +++++++++-
>  tools/perf/util/parse-events.h             |   9 +-
>  tools/perf/util/parse-events.y             |   9 +-
>  tools/perf/util/pmu-hybrid.c               |  89 +++++++++
>  tools/perf/util/pmu-hybrid.h               |  22 +++
>  tools/perf/util/pmu.c                      |  64 ++++--
>  tools/perf/util/pmu.h                      |   7 +
>  tools/perf/util/python-ext-sources         |   2 +
>  tools/perf/util/stat-display.c             |  18 +-
>  33 files changed, 1162 insertions(+), 50 deletions(-)
>  create mode 100644 tools/perf/Documentation/intel-hybrid.txt
>  create mode 100644 tools/perf/util/evlist-hybrid.c
>  create mode 100644 tools/perf/util/evlist-hybrid.h
>  create mode 100644 tools/perf/util/parse-events-hybrid.c
>  create mode 100644 tools/perf/util/parse-events-hybrid.h
>  create mode 100644 tools/perf/util/pmu-hybrid.c
>  create mode 100644 tools/perf/util/pmu-hybrid.h
> 
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