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From: Matt Turner <mattst88@gmail.com>
To: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
	 Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>,
	 Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>,
	Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>,
	 Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>,
	 Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>, Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>,
	 Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>,
	 James Clark <james.clark@linaro.org>
Cc: Magnus Lindholm <linmag7@gmail.com>,
	linux-alpha@vger.kernel.org,  linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-perf-users@vger.kernel.org,
	 Matt Turner <mattst88@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH v4 3/3] perf alpha: Add perf mem support
Date: Wed, 04 Nov 2026 13:53:58 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20261104-perf-alpha-profileme-v4-3-1771ea02950e@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20261104-perf-alpha-profileme-v4-0-1771ea02950e@gmail.com>

The Alpha kernel series "alpha/perf: add ProfileMe sampling" reports the
data source of ProfileMe samples of loads and stores: whether they hit or
missed the DTB, and whether they were loads, stores or prefetches.

Give the Alpha core PMU a mem-ldst event, cpu/cycles,profileme/, as AMD
does with IBS Op. cycles:p is not used, as precise events sample only
retired instructions, and a load or store that misses the DTB is aborted
and refetched. The profileme format bit only exists on the EV67 and
later, which have ProfileMe.

Suggested-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-5-5
Signed-off-by: Matt Turner <mattst88@gmail.com>
---
 tools/perf/Documentation/perf-mem.txt   |  3 +++
 tools/perf/arch/alpha/Build             |  2 +-
 tools/perf/arch/alpha/util/Build        |  2 ++
 tools/perf/arch/alpha/util/mem-events.c | 17 +++++++++++++++++
 tools/perf/arch/alpha/util/mem-events.h |  7 +++++++
 tools/perf/arch/alpha/util/pmu.c        | 11 +++++++++++
 6 files changed, 41 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-mem.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-mem.txt
index fe51c5e3333d..cb439940ce90 100644
--- a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-mem.txt
+++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-mem.txt
@@ -34,6 +34,9 @@ be sampled.
 
 On AMD this use IBS Op PMU to sample load-store operations.
 
+On Alpha this uses ProfileMe, on the EV67 and later, to sample all
+instructions. Loads and stores report whether they hit or missed the DTB.
+
 COMMON OPTIONS
 --------------
 -f::
diff --git a/tools/perf/arch/alpha/Build b/tools/perf/arch/alpha/Build
index 1bb8bf6d7fd4..e63eabc2c8f4 100644
--- a/tools/perf/arch/alpha/Build
+++ b/tools/perf/arch/alpha/Build
@@ -1 +1 @@
-# empty
+perf-util-y += util/
diff --git a/tools/perf/arch/alpha/util/Build b/tools/perf/arch/alpha/util/Build
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..8d924b229470
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tools/perf/arch/alpha/util/Build
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+perf-util-y += mem-events.o
+perf-util-y += pmu.o
diff --git a/tools/perf/arch/alpha/util/mem-events.c b/tools/perf/arch/alpha/util/mem-events.c
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..d3cbca1993b4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tools/perf/arch/alpha/util/mem-events.c
@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
+#include "util/map_symbol.h"
+#include "util/mem-events.h"
+#include "mem-events.h"
+
+#define E(t, n, s, l, a) { .tag = t, .name = n, .event_name = s, .ldlat = l, .aux_event = a }
+
+/*
+ * ProfileMe samples loads and stores alike, and reports DTB hits and misses
+ * in the data source. A precise event would sample only retired
+ * instructions, which leaves out the DTB misses, so set the profileme bit.
+ */
+struct perf_mem_event perf_mem_events_alpha[PERF_MEM_EVENTS__MAX] = {
+	E(NULL,		NULL,			NULL,		false,	0),
+	E(NULL,		NULL,			NULL,		false,	0),
+	E("mem-ldst",	"%s/cycles,profileme/",	"cycles",	false,	0),
+};
diff --git a/tools/perf/arch/alpha/util/mem-events.h b/tools/perf/arch/alpha/util/mem-events.h
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..311448cf1218
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tools/perf/arch/alpha/util/mem-events.h
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 */
+#ifndef _ALPHA_MEM_EVENTS_H
+#define _ALPHA_MEM_EVENTS_H
+
+extern struct perf_mem_event perf_mem_events_alpha[PERF_MEM_EVENTS__MAX];
+
+#endif /* _ALPHA_MEM_EVENTS_H */
diff --git a/tools/perf/arch/alpha/util/pmu.c b/tools/perf/arch/alpha/util/pmu.c
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..d19dfc979b08
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tools/perf/arch/alpha/util/pmu.c
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
+
+#include "../../../util/pmu.h"
+#include "mem-events.h"
+
+void perf_pmu__arch_init(struct perf_pmu *pmu)
+{
+	/* ProfileMe is only on the EV67 and later. */
+	if (pmu->is_core && perf_pmu__has_format(pmu, "profileme"))
+		pmu->mem_events = perf_mem_events_alpha;
+}

-- 
2.55.0


      parent reply	other threads:[~2026-11-04 18:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-11-04 18:53 [PATCH v4 0/3] perf alpha: Decode ProfileMe samples Matt Turner
2026-11-04 18:53 ` [PATCH v4 1/3] perf alpha: Decode ProfileMe raw samples Matt Turner
2026-11-04 18:53 ` [PATCH v4 2/3] perf python: Add alpha-profileme.py Matt Turner
2026-11-04 22:27   ` Magnus Lindholm
2026-11-04 18:53 ` Matt Turner [this message]

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