From: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
To: kan.liang@linux.intel.com
Cc: acme@kernel.org, mingo@redhat.com, peterz@infradead.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, namhyung@kernel.org,
ak@linux.intel.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] perf vendor events: Add stepping in CPUID string for x86
Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2018 21:44:11 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20181115204411.GO9600@krava> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20181114212416.15665-1-kan.liang@linux.intel.com>
On Wed, Nov 14, 2018 at 01:24:15PM -0800, kan.liang@linux.intel.com wrote:
> From: Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com>
>
> Perf tools cannot find the proper event list for Cascadelake server.
> Because Cascadelake server and Skylake server have the same CPU model
> number, which are used by perf tools to find the event list.
>
> The stepping for Skylake server is up to 4.
> The stepping for Cascadelake server starts from 5.
> The stepping can be used to distinguish between them.
>
> The stepping is added in get_cpuid_str().
> The stepping information for Skylake server is updated in mapfile.csv.
> A x86 specific strcmp_cpuid_cmp() function is added to handle two CPUID
> formats in mapfile.csv, "vendor-family-model-stepping" and
> "vendor-family-model".
> - If a cpuid-regular-expression from the mapfile.csv using the new
> stepping format, a cpuid-string generated on the machine must include
> stepping. Otherwise, it is a mismatch.
> - If the cpuid-regular-expression using the old non-stepping format,
> the stepping in the cpuid-string will be ignored.
>
> The script, which using environment string "PERF_CPUID" without stepping
> on Skylake server, will be broken. If so, users must fix their scripts.
>
> Signed-off-by: Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
thanks,
jirka
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-11-15 20:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-11-14 21:24 [PATCH 1/2] perf vendor events: Add stepping in CPUID string for x86 kan.liang
[not found] ` <20181114212416.15665-2-kan.liang@linux.intel.com>
2018-11-15 13:21 ` [PATCH 2/2] perf vendor events: Add JSON metrics for Cascadelake server Jiri Olsa
[not found] ` <3ab97c73-c197-8555-1a35-b54636e667e6@linux.intel.com>
2018-11-15 15:14 ` Jiri Olsa
2018-11-21 12:51 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2018-11-21 12:54 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2018-11-21 13:02 ` Jiri Olsa
2018-11-21 13:10 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2018-11-15 13:53 ` [PATCH 1/2] perf vendor events: Add stepping in CPUID string for x86 Jiri Olsa
2018-11-15 14:26 ` Liang, Kan
2018-11-15 15:18 ` Liang, Kan
2018-11-15 15:33 ` Jiri Olsa
2018-11-15 15:25 ` Jiri Olsa
2018-11-15 15:53 ` Liang, Kan
2018-11-15 20:02 ` Jiri Olsa
2018-11-15 20:44 ` Jiri Olsa [this message]
2018-11-15 21:01 ` Liang, Kan
2018-11-16 2:14 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2018-11-20 13:55 ` Liang, Kan
2018-11-21 12:22 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2018-11-22 7:14 ` [tip:perf/core] " tip-bot for Kan Liang
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