From: Jacek Tomaka <jacekt@dugeo.com>
To: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Jacek Tomaka <jacek.tomaka@poczta.fm>
Subject: [PATCH v4] perf/x86/intel: Add support for MISPREDICT bit on Knights Landing cpus
Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2018 09:38:30 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180802013830.10600-1-jacekt@dugeo.com> (raw)
From: Jacek Tomaka <jacek.tomaka@poczta.fm>
Problem: perf did not show branch predicted/mispredicted bit in brstack.
Output of perf -F brstack for profile collected
Before:
0x4fdbcd/0x4fdc03/-/-/-/0
0x45f4c1/0x4fdba0/-/-/-/0
0x45f544/0x45f4bb/-/-/-/0
0x45f555/0x45f53c/-/-/-/0
0x7f66901cc24b/0x45f555/-/-/-/0
0x7f66901cc22e/0x7f66901cc23d/-/-/-/0
0x7f66901cc1ff/0x7f66901cc20f/-/-/-/0
0x7f66901cc1e8/0x7f66901cc1fc/-/-/-/0
After:
0x4fdbcd/0x4fdc03/P/-/-/0
0x45f4c1/0x4fdba0/P/-/-/0
0x45f544/0x45f4bb/P/-/-/0
0x45f555/0x45f53c/P/-/-/0
0x7f66901cc24b/0x45f555/P/-/-/0
0x7f66901cc22e/0x7f66901cc23d/P/-/-/0
0x7f66901cc1ff/0x7f66901cc20f/P/-/-/0
0x7f66901cc1e8/0x7f66901cc1fc/P/-/-/0
Cause:
As mentioned in Software Development Manual vol 3, 17.4.8.1,
IA32_PERF_CAPABILITIES[5:0] indicates the format of the address that is
stored in the LBR stack. Knights Landing reports 1 (LBR_FORMAT_LIP) as
its format. Despite that, registers containing FROM address of the branch,
do have MISPREDICT bit but because of the format indicated in
IA32_PERF_CAPABILITIES[5:0], LBR did not read MISPREDICT bit.
Solution:
Teach LBR about above Knights Landing quirk and make it read MISPREDICT bit.
Signed-off-by: Jacek Tomaka <jacek.tomaka@poczta.fm>
---
arch/x86/events/intel/lbr.c | 4 ++++
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
diff --git a/arch/x86/events/intel/lbr.c b/arch/x86/events/intel/lbr.c
index cf372b9055..81fe5047c6 100644
--- a/arch/x86/events/intel/lbr.c
+++ b/arch/x86/events/intel/lbr.c
@@ -1230,4 +1230,8 @@ void intel_pmu_lbr_init_knl(void)
x86_pmu.lbr_sel_mask = LBR_SEL_MASK;
x86_pmu.lbr_sel_map = snb_lbr_sel_map;
+
+ /* Knights Landing does have MISPREDICT bit */
+ if (x86_pmu.intel_cap.lbr_format == LBR_FORMAT_LIP)
+ x86_pmu.intel_cap.lbr_format = LBR_FORMAT_EIP_FLAGS;
}
--
2.17.0
next reply other threads:[~2018-08-02 1:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-08-02 1:38 Jacek Tomaka [this message]
2018-08-02 10:07 ` Thomas Gleixner
2018-08-27 11:50 ` Jacek Tomaka
2018-09-10 10:03 ` [tip:perf/urgent] perf/x86/intel: Add support/quirk for the MISPREDICT bit on Knights Landing CPUs tip-bot for Jacek Tomaka
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