Re: [PATCH v8 2/5] perf tools: sync addition of PERF_MEM_SNOOPX_PEER

From: kajoljain <kjain@linux.ibm.com>
To: Ali Saidi <alisaidi@amazon.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-perf-users@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, german.gomez@arm.com,
	leo.yan@linaro.org, acme@kernel.org
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	alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com, andrew.kilroy@arm.com,
	james.clark@arm.com, john.garry@huawei.com, jolsa@kernel.org,
	lihuafei1@huawei.com, mark.rutland@arm.com,
	mathieu.poirier@linaro.org, mingo@redhat.com,
	namhyung@kernel.org, peterz@infradead.org, will@kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v8 2/5] perf tools: sync addition of PERF_MEM_SNOOPX_PEER
Date: Wed, 11 May 2022 11:12:30 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <eef22a4a-2695-a1a8-0926-781370e75cbf@linux.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20220504184850.24986-3-alisaidi@amazon.com>


On 5/5/22 00:18, Ali Saidi wrote:
> Add a flag to the perf mem data struct to signal that a request caused a
> cache-to-cache transfer of a line from a peer of the requestor and
> wasn't sourced from a lower cache level.  The line being moved from one
> peer cache to another has latency and performance implications. On Arm64
> Neoverse systems the data source can indicate a cache-to-cache transfer
> but not if the line is dirty or clean, so instead of overloading HITM
> define a new flag that indicates this type of transfer.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ali Saidi <alisaidi@amazon.com>
> Reviewed-by: Leo Yan <leo.yan@linaro.org>
> ---
>  tools/include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/tools/include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h b/tools/include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h
> index d37629dbad72..7b88bfd097dc 100644
> --- a/tools/include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h
> +++ b/tools/include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h
> @@ -1310,7 +1310,7 @@ union perf_mem_data_src {
>  #define PERF_MEM_SNOOP_SHIFT	19
>  
>  #define PERF_MEM_SNOOPX_FWD	0x01 /* forward */
> -/* 1 free */
> +#define PERF_MEM_SNOOPX_PEER	0x02 /* xfer from peer */
>  #define PERF_MEM_SNOOPX_SHIFT  38
>  
>  /* locked instruction */
Patch looks good to me.

Reviewed-By: Kajol Jain<kjain@linux.ibm.com>

Thanks,
Kajol Jain