[PATCH 00/49] Add Alder Lake support for perf

From: kan . liang
Date: Mon Feb 08 2021 - 12:48:40 EST


From: Kan Liang <kan.liang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

(The V1 patchset is a complete patchset for the Alder Lake support on
the Linux perf. It includes both kernel patches (1-25) and the user
space patches (26-49). It tries to give the maintainers/reviewers an
overall picture of the ADL enabling patches. The number of the patches
are huge. Sorry for it. For future versions, the patchset will be
divided into the kernel patch series and the userspace patch series.
They can be reviewed separately.)

Alder Lake uses a hybrid architecture utilizing Golden Cove cores
and Gracemont cores. On such architectures, all CPUs support the same,
homogeneous and symmetric, instruction set. Also, CPUID enumerate
the same features for all CPUs. There may be model-specific differences,
such as those addressed in this patchset.

The first two patches enumerate the hybrid CPU feature bit and save the
CPU type in a new field x86_cpu_type in struct cpuinfo_x86 for the
following patches. They were posted previously[1] but not merged.
Compared with the initial submission, they address the below two
concerns[2][3],
- Provide a good use case, PMU.
- Clarify what Intel Hybrid Technology is and is not.

The PMU capabilities for Golden Cove core and Gracemont core are not the
same. The key differences include the number of counters, events, perf
metrics feature, and PEBS-via-PT feature. A dedicated hybrid PMU has to
be registered for each of them. However, the current perf X86 assumes
that there is only one CPU PMU. To handle the hybrid PMUs, the patchset
- Introduce a new struct x86_hybrid_pmu to save the unique capabilities
from different PMUs. It's part of the global x86_pmu. The architecture
capabilities, which are available for all PMUs, are still saved in
the global x86_pmu. I once considered dynamically create dedicated
x86_pmu and pmu for each hybrid PMU. If so, they have to be changed to
pointers. Since they are used everywhere, the changes could be huge
and complex. Also, most of the PMU capabilities are the same between
hybrid PMUs. Duplicated data in the big x86_pmu structure will be
saved many times. So the dynamic way was dropped.
- The hybrid PMU registration has been moved to the cpu_starting(),
because only boot CPU is available when invoking the
init_hw_perf_events().
- Hybrid PMUs have different events and formats. Add new structures and
helpers for events attribute and format attribute which take the PMU
type into account.
- Add a PMU aware version PERF_TYPE_HARDWARE_PMU and
PERF_TYPE_HW_CACHE_PMU to facilitate user space tools

The uncore, MSR and cstate are the same between hybrid CPUs.
Don't need to register hybrid PMUs for them.

The generic code kernel/events/core.c is not hybrid friendly either,
especially for the per-task monitoring. Peter once proposed a
patchset[4], but it hasn't been merged. This patchset doesn't intend to
improve the generic code (which can be improved later separately). It
still uses the capability PERF_PMU_CAP_HETEROGENEOUS_CPUS for each
hybrid PMUs. For per-task and system-wide monitoring, user space tools
have to create events on all available hybrid PMUs. The events which are
from different hybrid PMUs cannot be included in the same group.

[1]. https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20201002201931.2826-1-ricardo.neri-calderon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/
[2]. https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20201002203452.GE17436@xxxxxxx/
[3]. https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/87r1qgccku.fsf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/
[4]. https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181010104559.GO5728@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/

Jin Yao (24):
perf jevents: Support unit value "cpu_core" and "cpu_atom"
perf util: Save pmu name to struct perf_pmu_alias
perf pmu: Save detected hybrid pmus to a global pmu list
perf pmu: Add hybrid helper functions
perf list: Support --cputype option to list hybrid pmu events
perf stat: Hybrid evsel uses its own cpus
perf header: Support HYBRID_TOPOLOGY feature
perf header: Support hybrid CPU_PMU_CAPS
tools headers uapi: Update tools's copy of linux/perf_event.h
perf parse-events: Create two hybrid hardware events
perf parse-events: Create two hybrid cache events
perf parse-events: Support hardware events inside PMU
perf list: Display pmu prefix for partially supported hybrid cache
events
perf parse-events: Support hybrid raw events
perf stat: Support --cputype option for hybrid events
perf stat: Support metrics with hybrid events
perf evlist: Create two hybrid 'cycles' events by default
perf stat: Add default hybrid events
perf stat: Uniquify hybrid event name
perf stat: Merge event counts from all hybrid PMUs
perf stat: Filter out unmatched aggregation for hybrid event
perf evlist: Warn as events from different hybrid PMUs in a group
perf Documentation: Document intel-hybrid support
perf evsel: Adjust hybrid event and global event mixed group

Kan Liang (22):
perf/x86/intel: Hybrid PMU support for perf capabilities
perf/x86: Hybrid PMU support for intel_ctrl
perf/x86: Hybrid PMU support for counters
perf/x86: Hybrid PMU support for unconstrained
perf/x86: Hybrid PMU support for hardware cache event
perf/x86: Hybrid PMU support for event constraints
perf/x86: Hybrid PMU support for extra_regs
perf/x86/intel: Factor out intel_pmu_check_num_counters
perf/x86/intel: Factor out intel_pmu_check_event_constraints
perf/x86/intel: Factor out intel_pmu_check_extra_regs
perf/x86: Expose check_hw_exists
perf/x86: Remove temporary pmu assignment in event_init
perf/x86: Factor out x86_pmu_show_pmu_cap
perf/x86: Register hybrid PMUs
perf/x86: Add structures for the attributes of Hybrid PMUs
perf/x86/intel: Add attr_update for Hybrid PMUs
perf/x86: Support filter_match callback
perf/x86/intel: Add Alder Lake Hybrid support
perf: Introduce PERF_TYPE_HARDWARE_PMU and PERF_TYPE_HW_CACHE_PMU
perf/x86/intel/uncore: Add Alder Lake support
perf/x86/msr: Add Alder Lake CPU support
perf/x86/cstate: Add Alder Lake CPU support

Ricardo Neri (2):
x86/cpufeatures: Enumerate Intel Hybrid Technology feature bit
x86/cpu: Describe hybrid CPUs in cpuinfo_x86

Zhang Rui (1):
perf/x86/rapl: Add support for Intel Alder Lake

arch/x86/events/core.c | 286 ++++++++++---
arch/x86/events/intel/core.c | 685 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++----
arch/x86/events/intel/cstate.c | 39 +-
arch/x86/events/intel/ds.c | 28 +-
arch/x86/events/intel/uncore.c | 7 +
arch/x86/events/intel/uncore.h | 1 +
arch/x86/events/intel/uncore_snb.c | 131 ++++++
arch/x86/events/msr.c | 2 +
arch/x86/events/perf_event.h | 117 ++++-
arch/x86/events/rapl.c | 2 +
arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h | 1 +
arch/x86/include/asm/msr-index.h | 2 +
arch/x86/include/asm/processor.h | 13 +
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c | 3 +
include/linux/perf_event.h | 12 +
include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h | 26 ++
kernel/events/core.c | 14 +-
tools/include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h | 26 ++
tools/perf/Documentation/intel-hybrid.txt | 335 +++++++++++++++
tools/perf/Documentation/perf-list.txt | 4 +
tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt | 1 +
tools/perf/Documentation/perf-stat.txt | 13 +
tools/perf/builtin-list.c | 42 +-
tools/perf/builtin-record.c | 3 +
tools/perf/builtin-stat.c | 94 +++-
tools/perf/pmu-events/jevents.c | 2 +
tools/perf/util/cputopo.c | 80 ++++
tools/perf/util/cputopo.h | 13 +
tools/perf/util/env.c | 12 +
tools/perf/util/env.h | 18 +-
tools/perf/util/evlist.c | 148 ++++++-
tools/perf/util/evlist.h | 7 +
tools/perf/util/evsel.c | 111 ++++-
tools/perf/util/evsel.h | 10 +-
tools/perf/util/header.c | 267 +++++++++++-
tools/perf/util/header.h | 1 +
tools/perf/util/metricgroup.c | 226 +++++++++-
tools/perf/util/metricgroup.h | 2 +-
tools/perf/util/parse-events.c | 405 +++++++++++++++++-
tools/perf/util/parse-events.h | 10 +-
tools/perf/util/parse-events.y | 21 +-
tools/perf/util/pmu.c | 120 +++++-
tools/perf/util/pmu.h | 24 +-
tools/perf/util/stat-display.c | 28 +-
tools/perf/util/stat.h | 2 +
45 files changed, 3106 insertions(+), 288 deletions(-)
create mode 100644 tools/perf/Documentation/intel-hybrid.txt

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