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Subject: [tip:perf/urgent] perf/x86/amd: Make HW_CACHE_REFERENCES and HW_CACHE_MISSES measure L2
Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2016 09:09:56 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <tip-080fe0b790ad438fc1b61621dac37c1964ce7f35@git.kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1472044328-21302-1-git-send-email-matt@codeblueprint.co.uk>

Commit-ID:  080fe0b790ad438fc1b61621dac37c1964ce7f35
Gitweb:     http://git.kernel.org/tip/080fe0b790ad438fc1b61621dac37c1964ce7f35
Author:     Matt Fleming <matt@codeblueprint.co.uk>
AuthorDate: Wed, 24 Aug 2016 14:12:08 +0100
Committer:  Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
CommitDate: Fri, 16 Sep 2016 16:19:49 +0200

perf/x86/amd: Make HW_CACHE_REFERENCES and HW_CACHE_MISSES measure L2

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 and TLB fill
requests to the L2 and instruction/data cache and TLB 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>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1472044328-21302-1-git-send-email-matt@codeblueprint.co.uk
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
---
 arch/x86/events/amd/core.c | 4 ++--
 arch/x86/kvm/pmu_amd.c     | 4 ++--
 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/events/amd/core.c b/arch/x86/events/amd/core.c
index e07a22b..f5f4b3f 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]		= 0x077d,
+  [PERF_COUNT_HW_CACHE_MISSES]			= 0x077e,
   [PERF_COUNT_HW_BRANCH_INSTRUCTIONS]		= 0x00c2,
   [PERF_COUNT_HW_BRANCH_MISSES]			= 0x00c3,
   [PERF_COUNT_HW_STALLED_CYCLES_FRONTEND]	= 0x00d0, /* "Decoder empty" event */
diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/pmu_amd.c b/arch/x86/kvm/pmu_amd.c
index 39b9112..cd94443 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/pmu_amd.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/pmu_amd.c
@@ -23,8 +23,8 @@
 static struct kvm_event_hw_type_mapping amd_event_mapping[] = {
 	[0] = { 0x76, 0x00, PERF_COUNT_HW_CPU_CYCLES },
 	[1] = { 0xc0, 0x00, PERF_COUNT_HW_INSTRUCTIONS },
-	[2] = { 0x80, 0x00, PERF_COUNT_HW_CACHE_REFERENCES },
-	[3] = { 0x81, 0x00, PERF_COUNT_HW_CACHE_MISSES },
+	[2] = { 0x7d, 0x07, PERF_COUNT_HW_CACHE_REFERENCES },
+	[3] = { 0x7e, 0x07, PERF_COUNT_HW_CACHE_MISSES },
 	[4] = { 0xc2, 0x00, PERF_COUNT_HW_BRANCH_INSTRUCTIONS },
 	[5] = { 0xc3, 0x00, PERF_COUNT_HW_BRANCH_MISSES },
 	[6] = { 0xd0, 0x00, PERF_COUNT_HW_STALLED_CYCLES_FRONTEND },

      parent reply	other threads:[~2016-09-16 16:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-08-24 13:12 [PATCH v2] perf/x86/amd: Make HW_CACHE_REFERENCES and HW_CACHE_MISSES measure L2 Matt Fleming
2016-08-24 14:55 ` Borislav Petkov
2016-08-24 18:27   ` Peter Zijlstra
2016-08-25  3:35     ` Borislav Petkov
2016-09-16 13:01       ` Matt Fleming
2016-09-16 16:09 ` tip-bot for Matt Fleming [this message]

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