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    Subject[PATCH V9 4/8] perf, x86: large PEBS interrupt threshold
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    From: Yan, Zheng <zheng.z.yan@intel.com>

    PEBS always had the capability to log samples to its buffers without
    an interrupt. Traditionally perf has not used this but always set the
    PEBS threshold to one.

    For frequently occurring events (like cycles or branches or load/store)
    this in term requires using a relatively high sampling period to avoid
    overloading the system, by only processing PMIs. This in term increases
    sampling error.

    For the common cases we still need to use the PMI because the PEBS
    hardware has various limitations. The biggest one is that it can not
    supply a callgraph. It also requires setting a fixed period, as the
    hardware does not support adaptive period. Another issue is that it
    cannot supply a time stamp and some other options. To supply a TID it
    requires flushing on context switch. It can however supply the IP, the
    load/store address, TSX information, registers, and some other things.

    So we can make PEBS work for some specific cases, basically as long as
    you can do without a callgraph and can set the period you can use this
    new PEBS mode.

    The main benefit is the ability to support much lower sampling period
    (down to -c 1000) without extensive overhead.

    One use cases is for example to increase the resolution of the c2c tool.
    Another is double checking when you suspect the standard sampling has
    too much sampling error.

    Some numbers on the overhead, using cycle soak, comparing the elapsed
    time from "kernbench -M -H" between plain (threshold set to one) and
    multi (large threshold).
    The test command for plain:
    "perf record --time -e cycles:p -c $period -- kernbench -M -H"
    The test command for multi:
    "perf record --no-time -e cycles:p -c $period -- kernbench -M -H"
    (The only difference of test command between multi and plain is time
    stamp options. Since time stamp is not supported by large PEBS
    threshold, it can be used as a flag to indicate if large threshold is
    enabled during the test.)

    period plain(Sec) multi(Sec) Delta
    10003 32.7 16.5 16.2
    20003 30.2 16.2 14.0
    40003 18.6 14.1 4.5
    80003 16.8 14.6 2.2
    100003 16.9 14.1 2.8
    800003 15.4 15.7 -0.3
    1000003 15.3 15.2 0.2
    2000003 15.3 15.1 0.1

    With periods below 100003, plain (threshold one) cause much more
    overhead. With 10003 sampling period, the Elapsed Time for multi is
    even 2X faster than plain.

    Signed-off-by: Yan, Zheng <zheng.z.yan@intel.com>
    Signed-off-by: Kan Liang <kan.liang@intel.com>
    ---
    arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event.h | 11 +++++++++++
    arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_intel.c | 5 ++++-
    arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_intel_ds.c | 27 +++++++++++++++++++++++----
    3 files changed, 38 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

    diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event.h b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event.h
    index 1cb5859..626ded3 100644
    --- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event.h
    +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event.h
    @@ -75,6 +75,7 @@ struct event_constraint {
    #define PERF_X86_EVENT_DYNAMIC 0x0080 /* dynamic alloc'd constraint */
    #define PERF_X86_EVENT_RDPMC_ALLOWED 0x0100 /* grant rdpmc permission */
    #define PERF_X86_EVENT_AUTO_RELOAD 0x0200 /* use PEBS auto-reload */
    +#define PERF_X86_EVENT_FREERUNNING 0x0400 /* use freerunning PEBS */


    struct amd_nb {
    @@ -88,6 +89,16 @@ struct amd_nb {
    #define MAX_PEBS_EVENTS 8

    /*
    + * Flags PEBS can handle without an PMI.
    + *
    + */
    +#define PEBS_FREERUNNING_FLAGS \
    + (PERF_SAMPLE_IP | PERF_SAMPLE_ADDR | \
    + PERF_SAMPLE_ID | PERF_SAMPLE_CPU | PERF_SAMPLE_STREAM_ID | \
    + PERF_SAMPLE_DATA_SRC | PERF_SAMPLE_IDENTIFIER | \
    + PERF_SAMPLE_TRANSACTION)
    +
    +/*
    * A debug store configuration.
    *
    * We only support architectures that use 64bit fields.
    diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_intel.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_intel.c
    index 3119071..fdf818a 100644
    --- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_intel.c
    +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_intel.c
    @@ -2306,8 +2306,11 @@ static int intel_pmu_hw_config(struct perf_event *event)
    return ret;

    if (event->attr.precise_ip) {
    - if (!event->attr.freq)
    + if (!event->attr.freq) {
    event->hw.flags |= PERF_X86_EVENT_AUTO_RELOAD;
    + if (!(event->attr.sample_type & ~PEBS_FREERUNNING_FLAGS))
    + event->hw.flags |= PERF_X86_EVENT_FREERUNNING;
    + }
    if (x86_pmu.pebs_aliases)
    x86_pmu.pebs_aliases(event);
    }
    diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_intel_ds.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_intel_ds.c
    index 971c77e..0b727d1 100644
    --- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_intel_ds.c
    +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_intel_ds.c
    @@ -250,7 +250,7 @@ static int alloc_pebs_buffer(int cpu)
    {
    struct debug_store *ds = per_cpu(cpu_hw_events, cpu).ds;
    int node = cpu_to_node(cpu);
    - int max, thresh = 1; /* always use a single PEBS record */
    + int max;
    void *buffer, *ibuffer;

    if (!x86_pmu.pebs)
    @@ -280,9 +280,6 @@ static int alloc_pebs_buffer(int cpu)
    ds->pebs_absolute_maximum = ds->pebs_buffer_base +
    max * x86_pmu.pebs_record_size;

    - ds->pebs_interrupt_threshold = ds->pebs_buffer_base +
    - thresh * x86_pmu.pebs_record_size;
    -
    return 0;
    }

    @@ -684,14 +681,22 @@ struct event_constraint *intel_pebs_constraints(struct perf_event *event)
    return &emptyconstraint;
    }

    +static inline bool pebs_is_enabled(struct cpu_hw_events *cpuc)
    +{
    + return (cpuc->pebs_enabled & ((1ULL << MAX_PEBS_EVENTS) - 1));
    +}
    +
    void intel_pmu_pebs_enable(struct perf_event *event)
    {
    struct cpu_hw_events *cpuc = this_cpu_ptr(&cpu_hw_events);
    struct hw_perf_event *hwc = &event->hw;
    struct debug_store *ds = cpuc->ds;
    + bool first_pebs;
    + u64 threshold;

    hwc->config &= ~ARCH_PERFMON_EVENTSEL_INT;

    + first_pebs = !pebs_is_enabled(cpuc);
    cpuc->pebs_enabled |= 1ULL << hwc->idx;

    if (event->hw.flags & PERF_X86_EVENT_PEBS_LDLAT)
    @@ -699,11 +704,25 @@ void intel_pmu_pebs_enable(struct perf_event *event)
    else if (event->hw.flags & PERF_X86_EVENT_PEBS_ST)
    cpuc->pebs_enabled |= 1ULL << 63;

    + /*
    + * When the event is constrained enough we can use a larger
    + * threshold and run the event with less frequent PMI.
    + */
    + if (hwc->flags & PERF_X86_EVENT_FREERUNNING) {
    + threshold = ds->pebs_absolute_maximum -
    + x86_pmu.max_pebs_events * x86_pmu.pebs_record_size;
    + } else {
    + threshold = ds->pebs_buffer_base + x86_pmu.pebs_record_size;
    + }
    +
    /* Use auto-reload if possible to save a MSR write in the PMI */
    if (hwc->flags & PERF_X86_EVENT_AUTO_RELOAD) {
    ds->pebs_event_reset[hwc->idx] =
    (u64)(-hwc->sample_period) & x86_pmu.cntval_mask;
    }
    +
    + if (first_pebs || ds->pebs_interrupt_threshold > threshold)
    + ds->pebs_interrupt_threshold = threshold;
    }

    void intel_pmu_pebs_disable(struct perf_event *event)
    --
    1.8.3.1


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