Re: [PATCH] perf tools: Force uncore events to system wide monitoring

From: Borislav Petkov
Date: Mon Feb 27 2017 - 06:40:05 EST


On Mon, Feb 27, 2017 at 10:28:59AM +0100, Jiri Olsa wrote:
> would you mind testing new version?

Looks ok to me.

Thanks.

[boris@pd: ~/kernel/linux/tools/perf> ./perf stat -v -e amd_nb/event=0xe0,umask=0x1f/ sleep 1
Using CPUID AuthenticAMD-21-2
amd_nb/event=0xe0,umask=0x1f/: 977574 1002133816 1002133816

Performance counter stats for 'system wide':

977,574 amd_nb/event=0xe0,umask=0x1f/

1.002162083 seconds time elapsed

[boris@pd: ~/kernel/linux/tools/perf> ./perf stat -v -e amd_nb/event=0xe0,umask=0x1f/,cycles sleep 1
Using CPUID AuthenticAMD-21-2
Warning:
amd_nb/event=0xe0,umask=0x1f/ event is not supported by the kernel.
failed to read counter amd_nb/event=0xe0,umask=0x1f/
amd_nb/event=0xe0,umask=0x1f/: 0 0 0
cycles: 1132814 754123 754123

Performance counter stats for 'sleep 1':

<not supported> amd_nb/event=0xe0,umask=0x1f/
1,132,814 cycles

1.001673257 seconds time elapsed

[boris@pd: ~/kernel/linux/tools/perf> ./perf stat -v -e amd_nb/event=0xe0,umask=0x1f/,amd_nb/event=0xe1,umask=0x3/ sleep 1
Using CPUID AuthenticAMD-21-2
amd_nb/event=0xe0,umask=0x1f/: 1002677 1001767669 1001767669
amd_nb/event=0xe1,umask=0x3/: 0 1001764647 1001764647

Performance counter stats for 'system wide':

1,002,677 amd_nb/event=0xe0,umask=0x1f/
0 amd_nb/event=0xe1,umask=0x3/

1.001811216 seconds time elapsed

[boris@pd: ~/kernel/linux/tools/perf> ./perf stat -v -e amd_nb/event=0xe0,umask=0x1f/,amd_nb/event=0xe1,umask=0x3/,amd_nb/event=0xe2,umask=0x3/ sleep 1
Using CPUID AuthenticAMD-21-2
amd_nb/event=0xe0,umask=0x1f/: 216137 1001633975 1001633975
amd_nb/event=0xe1,umask=0x3/: 0 1001635564 1001635564
amd_nb/event=0xe2,umask=0x3/: 1084188 1001637368 1001637368

Performance counter stats for 'system wide':

216,137 amd_nb/event=0xe0,umask=0x1f/
0 amd_nb/event=0xe1,umask=0x3/
1,084,188 amd_nb/event=0xe2,umask=0x3/

1.001687549 seconds time elapsed

[boris@pd: ~/kernel/linux/tools/perf> ./perf stat -v -a -e amd_nb/event=0xe0,umask=0x1f/,amd_nb/event=0xe1,umask=0x3/,amd_nb/event=0xe2,umask=0x3/,cycles sleep 1
Using CPUID AuthenticAMD-21-2
amd_nb/event=0xe0,umask=0x1f/: 226857 1001760122 1001760122
amd_nb/event=0xe1,umask=0x3/: 0 1001757534 1001757534
amd_nb/event=0xe2,umask=0x3/: 1117142 1001753602 1001753602
cycles: 109689123 8014364579 8014364579

Performance counter stats for 'system wide':

226,857 amd_nb/event=0xe0,umask=0x1f/
0 amd_nb/event=0xe1,umask=0x3/
1,117,142 amd_nb/event=0xe2,umask=0x3/
109,689,123 cycles

1.001970476 seconds time elapsed

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Regards/Gruss,
Boris.

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