Re: Invalid event (cycles:pp) in per-thread mode, enable system wide with '-a'.

[Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>]

On Tue, Oct 11, 2022 at 10:05 PM Ravi Bangoria <ravi.bangoria@amd.com> wrote:
>
> On 12-Oct-22 9:36 AM, Ravi Bangoria wrote:
> > On 12-Oct-22 3:02 AM, Nick Desaulniers wrote:
> >> On Thu, Oct 6, 2022 at 8:56 PM Ravi Bangoria <ravi.bangoria@amd.com> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> +cc: PeterZ
> >>>
> >>>>>>>> +Ravi who may be able to say if there are any issues with the precise
> >>>>>>>> sampling on AMD.
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> Afaik cvcles:pp will use IBS but it doesn't support per-task profiling
> >>>>>>> since it has no task context.  Ravi is working on it..
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Right.
> >>>>>> https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20220829113347.295-1-ravi.bangoria@amd.com
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Cool, thanks for working on this Ravi.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> I'm not sure yet whether I may replace the kernel on my corporate
> >>>>> provided workstation, so I'm not sure yet I can help test that patch.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Can you confirm that
> >>>>> $ perf record -e cycles:pp --freq=128 --call-graph lbr -- <command to profile>
> >>>>>
> >>>>> works with just that patch applied? Or is there more work required?
> >>>>> What is the status of that patch?
> >>>>>
> >>>>> For context, we had difficulty upstreaming support for instrumentation
> >>>>> based profile guided optimizations in the Linux kernel.
> >>>>> https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAHk-=whqCT0BeqBQhW8D-YoLLgp_eFY=8Y=9ieREM5xx0ef08w@mail.gmail.com/
> >>>>> We'd like to be able to use either instrumentation or sampling to
> >>>>> optimize our builds.  The major barrier to sample based approaches are
> >>>>> architecture / micro architecture issues with sample based profile
> >>>>> data collection, and bitrot of data processing utilities.
> >>>>> https://github.com/google/autofdo/issues/144
> >>>>
> >>>> On existing AMD Zen2, Zen3 the following cmdline:
> >>>> $ perf record -e cycles:pp --freq=128 --call-graph lbr -- <command to profile>
> >>>>
> >>>> does not work. I see two reasons:
> >>>>
> >>>> 1. cycles:pp is likely converted into IBS op in cycle mode.
> >>>>     Current kernels do not support IBS in per-thread mode.
> >>>>     This is purely a kernel limitation
> >>>
> >>> Right, it's purely a kernel limitation. And below simple patch on top
> >>> of event-context rewrite patch[1] should be sufficient to make cycles:pp
> >>> working in per-process mode on AMD Zen.
> >>>
> >>> ---
> >>> diff --git a/arch/x86/events/amd/ibs.c b/arch/x86/events/amd/ibs.c
> >>> index c251bc44c088..de01b5d27e40 100644
> >>> --- a/arch/x86/events/amd/ibs.c
> >>> +++ b/arch/x86/events/amd/ibs.c
> >>> @@ -665,7 +665,7 @@ static struct perf_ibs perf_ibs_fetch = {
> >>>
> >>>  static struct perf_ibs perf_ibs_op = {
> >>>         .pmu = {
> >>> -               .task_ctx_nr    = perf_invalid_context,
> >>> +               .task_ctx_nr    = perf_hw_context,
> >>>
> >>>                 .event_init     = perf_ibs_init,
> >>>                 .add            = perf_ibs_add,
> >>> ---
> >>>
> >>> [1]: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20220829113347.295-1-ravi.bangoria@amd.com
> >>
> >> Hi Ravi,
> >> I didn't see the above diff in
> >> https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20221008062424.313-1-ravi.bangoria@amd.com/
> >> Was there another distinct patch you were going to send for the above?
> >
> > Yes Nick. I was planning to send it once the rewrite stuff goes in.
>
> Hi Nick,
>
> Since you have practical use case, would it be possible to run your workflow
> with perf rewrite and IBS patches applied? It will help us in finding/fixing
> more bugs and upstreaming these changes.

Hi Ravi,
Sorry, I'm not able to load a custom kernel image on my employer
provided workstation, and I never got approval to expense hardware for
testing this otherwise.

Was there ever any update on this? I'm on 6.1.25 now and still cant run
$ perf record -e cycles:pp --call-graph lbr <any command to profile>
$ cat /proc/cpuinfo
...
model name      : AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 3995WX 64-Cores
...
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Thanks,
~Nick Desaulniers