[PATCH] perf/x86/intel/uncore: fix broken read_counter() for SNB IMC PMU

* [PATCH] perf/x86/intel/uncore: fix broken read_counter() for SNB IMC PMU
@ 2022-08-03 16:00 Stephane Eranian
  2022-08-04 13:08 ` Liang, Kan
  2022-08-26 22:16 ` [tip: perf/urgent] perf/x86/intel/uncore: Fix " tip-bot2 for Stephane Eranian
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 6+ messages in thread
From: Stephane Eranian @ 2022-08-03 16:00 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-kernel; +Cc: peterz, kan.liang, ak, namhyung.kim, irogers

Existing code was generating bogus counts for the SNB IMC bandwidth counters:

$ perf stat -a -I 1000 -e uncore_imc/data_reads/,uncore_imc/data_writes/
     1.000327813           1,024.03 MiB  uncore_imc/data_reads/
     1.000327813              20.73 MiB  uncore_imc/data_writes/
     2.000580153         261,120.00 MiB  uncore_imc/data_reads/
     2.000580153              23.28 MiB  uncore_imc/data_writes/

The problem was introduced by commit:
  07ce734dd8ad ("perf/x86/intel/uncore: Clean up client IMC")

Where the read_counter callback was replace to point to the generic
uncore_mmio_read_counter() function.

The SNB IMC counters are freerunnig 32-bit counters laid out contiguously in
MMIO. But uncore_mmio_read_counter() is using a readq() call to read from
MMIO therefore reading 64-bit from MMIO. Although this is okay for the
uncore_perf_event_update() function because it is shifting the value based
on the actual counter width to compute a delta, it is not okay for the
uncore_pmu_event_start() which is simply reading the counter  and therefore
priming the event->prev_count with a bogus value which is responsible for
causing bogus deltas in the perf stat command above.

The fix is to reintroduce the custom callback for read_counter for the SNB
IMC PMU and use readl() instead of readq(). With the change the output of
perf stat is back to normal:
$ perf stat -a -I 1000 -e uncore_imc/data_reads/,uncore_imc/data_writes/
     1.000120987             296.94 MiB  uncore_imc/data_reads/
     1.000120987             138.42 MiB  uncore_imc/data_writes/
     2.000403144             175.91 MiB  uncore_imc/data_reads/
     2.000403144              68.50 MiB  uncore_imc/data_writes/

Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
---
 arch/x86/events/intel/uncore_snb.c | 18 +++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/events/intel/uncore_snb.c b/arch/x86/events/intel/uncore_snb.c
index ce440011cc4e..1ef4f7861e2e 100644
--- a/arch/x86/events/intel/uncore_snb.c
+++ b/arch/x86/events/intel/uncore_snb.c
@@ -841,6 +841,22 @@ int snb_pci2phy_map_init(int devid)
 	return 0;
 }
 
+static u64 snb_uncore_imc_read_counter(struct intel_uncore_box *box, struct perf_event *event)
+{
+	struct hw_perf_event *hwc = &event->hw;
+
+	/*
+	 * SNB IMC counters are 32-bit and are laid out back to back
+	 * in MMIO space. Therefore we must use a 32-bit accessor function
+	 * using readq() from uncore_mmio_read_counter() causes problems
+	 * because it is reading 64-bit at a time. This is okay for the
+	 * uncore_perf_event_update() function because it drops the upper
+	 * 32-bits but not okay for plain uncore_read_counter() as invoked
+	 * in uncore_pmu_event_start().
+	 */
+	return (u64)readl(box->io_addr + hwc->event_base);
+}
+
 static struct pmu snb_uncore_imc_pmu = {
 	.task_ctx_nr	= perf_invalid_context,
 	.event_init	= snb_uncore_imc_event_init,
@@ -860,7 +876,7 @@ static struct intel_uncore_ops snb_uncore_imc_ops = {
 	.disable_event	= snb_uncore_imc_disable_event,
 	.enable_event	= snb_uncore_imc_enable_event,
 	.hw_config	= snb_uncore_imc_hw_config,
-	.read_counter	= uncore_mmio_read_counter,
+	.read_counter	= snb_uncore_imc_read_counter,
 };
 
 static struct intel_uncore_type snb_uncore_imc = {
-- 
2.37.1.455.g008518b4e5-goog


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