[PATCH v4 00/11] perf: Intel Cache QoS Monitoring support

From: Matt Fleming
Date: Fri Nov 14 2014 - 16:18:13 EST


From: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@xxxxxxxxx>

This patch series adds a new PMU driver for the Intel Cache Monitoring
hardware feature available in Intel Xeon processors, which allows
monitoring of LLC occupancy on a task, group or system-wide basis.

The first few patches modify tools/perf to handle per-package counters,
which necessitates discarding some values when doing per-cpu reads to
avoid getting duplicate data. The rest add support for the new PMU code.

I've left a notoriously funky bit of code near the end of the series,
the RMID rotation code, in an attempt to simplify things. Doing the
rotation provides the ability to multiplex the RMIDs and basically
overcome the hardware limitation, but the rest of the patches work fine
without it. But there are a number of scenarios where being able to
monitor more tasks than RMIDs is extremely useful.

The series is based on tip/perf/core.

Changes in v4:

- Swapped smp_call_function_many() for on_each_cpu_mask()

- Use atomic_t for serialisation for cache occupancy IPI reads

- Calculate a max threshold value based on number of RMIDs and LLC size

- Drop the list, bitmap, list juggle in favour of RMID ->state member

- Use pmu::hrtimer_interval_ms as rotation timer tick for consistency

Changes in v3:

- Dropped patches that have been applied in tip/perf/core

- Upated commit message in PATCH 3 based on Peter's feedback

- Simplified PATCH 5 by only using int cgroup_fd as param

- Added a new patch (11) to perform internal scheduling on conflict
monitoring events

- Make RMIDs wait in limbo for a minimium queue time to avoid IPIs
wherever possible

- Provide a user-configurable upper bound on the recycling threshold

- Reduce the size of a preemption disabled section (pointed out by
Thomas Gleixner)

- Reduce the limbo bitmap size due to worries of mass memory
consumption on larg CPU systems (Peter Zijlstra)

- Picked a patch (2) from Jiri to fix the -I (interval) mode of perf
stat with CQM

Changes in v2:

- Added Jiri Olsa's Acked-by to PATCH 02/11.

- Use x86_match_cpu() in intel_cqm_init() and make sure we grab the
hotplug lock to prevent races as pointed out by Andi Kleen in
PATCH 08/11.

- Delete a stale comment in commit message of PATCH 10/11.

Jiri Olsa (1):
perf tools: Implement snapshot event file logic

Matt Fleming (9):
perf tools: Parse event per-package info files
perf: Make perf_cgroup_from_task() global
perf: Add ->count() function to read per-package counters
perf: Move cgroup init before PMU ->event_init()
perf/x86/intel: Add Intel Cache QoS Monitoring support
perf/x86/intel: Implement LRU monitoring ID allocation for CQM
perf/x86/intel: Support task events with Intel CQM
perf/x86/intel: Perform rotation on Intel CQM RMIDs
perf/x86/intel: Enable conflicting event scheduling for CQM

Peter P Waskiewicz Jr (1):
x86: Add support for Intel Cache QoS Monitoring (CQM) detection

arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeature.h | 9 +-
arch/x86/include/asm/processor.h | 3 +
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/Makefile | 2 +-
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c | 39 +
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_intel_cqm.c | 1349 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
include/linux/perf_event.h | 48 +
include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h | 1 +
kernel/events/core.c | 63 +-
tools/perf/builtin-stat.c | 88 +-
tools/perf/util/evsel.c | 12 +-
tools/perf/util/evsel.h | 9 +-
tools/perf/util/parse-events.c | 2 +
tools/perf/util/pmu.c | 74 +-
tools/perf/util/pmu.h | 4 +
14 files changed, 1643 insertions(+), 60 deletions(-)
create mode 100644 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_intel_cqm.c

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