Re: [PATCH] perf vendor events aarch64: Add JSON metrics for ARM Cortex-A53 Processor

From: William Cohen
Date: Thu Feb 01 2018 - 10:13:06 EST

On 02/01/2018 09:43 AM, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote:
> Em Tue, Jan 30, 2018 at 10:28:13PM -0500, William Cohen escreveu:
>> Add JSON metrics for ARM Cortex-A53 Processor
>
> Hi Will, would it be possible to you include an URL for the document
> that served as a reference to you to write these files? Did you use some
> script?

Hi Arnaldo,

I can certainly add the reference to section "12.9 Events" of the ARM Cortex -A53 MPCore Processor Revision: r0p4 Technical Reference Manual to the patch. That would be useful for people to know where to look for additional information about the events.

Unlike the Intel processors there isn't a script that automatically generated these files. The patch was manually generated from the documentation and the previous oprofile ARM Cortex ac53 event file patch I made.

-Will

>
> - Arnaldo
>
>> Signed-off-by: William Cohen <wcohen@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> ---
>> .../pmu-events/arch/arm64/cortex-a53/branch.json | 27 +++++++++++
>> .../perf/pmu-events/arch/arm64/cortex-a53/bus.json | 22 +++++++++
>> .../pmu-events/arch/arm64/cortex-a53/cache.json | 27 +++++++++++
>> .../pmu-events/arch/arm64/cortex-a53/memory.json | 22 +++++++++
>> .../pmu-events/arch/arm64/cortex-a53/other.json | 32 +++++++++++++
>> .../pmu-events/arch/arm64/cortex-a53/pipeline.json | 52 ++++++++++++++++++++++
>> tools/perf/pmu-events/arch/arm64/mapfile.csv | 1 +
>> 7 files changed, 183 insertions(+)
>> create mode 100644 tools/perf/pmu-events/arch/arm64/cortex-a53/branch.json
>> create mode 100644 tools/perf/pmu-events/arch/arm64/cortex-a53/bus.json
>> create mode 100644 tools/perf/pmu-events/arch/arm64/cortex-a53/cache.json
>> create mode 100644 tools/perf/pmu-events/arch/arm64/cortex-a53/memory.json
>> create mode 100644 tools/perf/pmu-events/arch/arm64/cortex-a53/other.json
>> create mode 100644 tools/perf/pmu-events/arch/arm64/cortex-a53/pipeline.json
>>
>> diff --git a/tools/perf/pmu-events/arch/arm64/cortex-a53/branch.json b/tools/perf/pmu-events/arch/arm64/cortex-a53/branch.json
>> new file mode 100644
>> index 000000000000..3b6208763e50
>> --- /dev/null
>> +++ b/tools/perf/pmu-events/arch/arm64/cortex-a53/branch.json
>> @@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
>> +[
>> + {,
>> + "EventCode": "0x7A",
>> + "EventName": "BR_INDIRECT_SPEC",
>> + "BriefDescription": "Branch speculatively executed - Indirect branch"
>> + },
>> + {,
>> + "EventCode": "0xC9",
>> + "EventName": "BR_COND",
>> + "BriefDescription": "Conditional branch executed"
>> + },
>> + {,
>> + "EventCode": "0xCA",
>> + "EventName": "BR_INDIRECT_MISPRED",
>> + "BriefDescription": "Indirect branch mispredicted"
>> + },
>> + {,
>> + "EventCode": "0xCB",
>> + "EventName": "BR_INDIRECT_MISPRED_ADDR",
>> + "BriefDescription": "Indirect branch mispredicted because of address miscompare"
>> + },
>> + {,
>> + "EventCode": "0xCC",
>> + "EventName": "BR_COND_MISPRED",
>> + "BriefDescription": "Conditional branch mispredicted"
>> + }
>> +]
>> diff --git a/tools/perf/pmu-events/arch/arm64/cortex-a53/bus.json b/tools/perf/pmu-events/arch/arm64/cortex-a53/bus.json
>> new file mode 100644
>> index 000000000000..480d9f7460ab
>> --- /dev/null
>> +++ b/tools/perf/pmu-events/arch/arm64/cortex-a53/bus.json
>> @@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
>> +[
>> + {,
>> + "EventCode": "0x60",
>> + "EventName": "BUS_ACCESS_LD",
>> + "BriefDescription": "Bus access - Read"
>> + },
>> + {,
>> + "EventCode": "0x61",
>> + "EventName": "BUS_ACCESS_ST",
>> + "BriefDescription": "Bus access - Write"
>> + },
>> + {,
>> + "EventCode": "0xC0",
>> + "EventName": "EXT_MEM_REQ",
>> + "BriefDescription": "External memory request"
>> + },
>> + {,
>> + "EventCode": "0xC1",
>> + "EventName": "EXT_MEM_REQ_NC",
>> + "BriefDescription": "Non-cacheable external memory request"
>> + }
>> +]
>> diff --git a/tools/perf/pmu-events/arch/arm64/cortex-a53/cache.json b/tools/perf/pmu-events/arch/arm64/cortex-a53/cache.json
>> new file mode 100644
>> index 000000000000..11baad6344b9
>> --- /dev/null
>> +++ b/tools/perf/pmu-events/arch/arm64/cortex-a53/cache.json
>> @@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
>> +[
>> + {,
>> + "EventCode": "0xC2",
>> + "EventName": "PREFETCH_LINEFILL",
>> + "BriefDescription": "Linefill because of prefetch"
>> + },
>> + {,
>> + "EventCode": "0xC3",
>> + "EventName": "PREFETCH_LINEFILL_DROP",
>> + "BriefDescription": "Instruction Cache Throttle occurred"
>> + },
>> + {,
>> + "EventCode": "0xC4",
>> + "EventName": "READ_ALLOC_ENTER",
>> + "BriefDescription": "Entering read allocate mode"
>> + },
>> + {,
>> + "EventCode": "0xC5",
>> + "EventName": "READ_ALLOC",
>> + "BriefDescription": "Read allocate mode"
>> + },
>> + {,
>> + "EventCode": "0xC8",
>> + "EventName": "EXT_SNOOP",
>> + "BriefDescription": "SCU Snooped data from another CPU for this CPU"
>> + }
>> +]
>> diff --git a/tools/perf/pmu-events/arch/arm64/cortex-a53/memory.json b/tools/perf/pmu-events/arch/arm64/cortex-a53/memory.json
>> new file mode 100644
>> index 000000000000..480d9f7460ab
>> --- /dev/null
>> +++ b/tools/perf/pmu-events/arch/arm64/cortex-a53/memory.json
>> @@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
>> +[
>> + {,
>> + "EventCode": "0x60",
>> + "EventName": "BUS_ACCESS_LD",
>> + "BriefDescription": "Bus access - Read"
>> + },
>> + {,
>> + "EventCode": "0x61",
>> + "EventName": "BUS_ACCESS_ST",
>> + "BriefDescription": "Bus access - Write"
>> + },
>> + {,
>> + "EventCode": "0xC0",
>> + "EventName": "EXT_MEM_REQ",
>> + "BriefDescription": "External memory request"
>> + },
>> + {,
>> + "EventCode": "0xC1",
>> + "EventName": "EXT_MEM_REQ_NC",
>> + "BriefDescription": "Non-cacheable external memory request"
>> + }
>> +]
>> diff --git a/tools/perf/pmu-events/arch/arm64/cortex-a53/other.json b/tools/perf/pmu-events/arch/arm64/cortex-a53/other.json
>> new file mode 100644
>> index 000000000000..73a22402d003
>> --- /dev/null
>> +++ b/tools/perf/pmu-events/arch/arm64/cortex-a53/other.json
>> @@ -0,0 +1,32 @@
>> +[
>> + {,
>> + "EventCode": "0x86",
>> + "EventName": "EXC_IRQ",
>> + "BriefDescription": "Exception taken, IRQ"
>> + },
>> + {,
>> + "EventCode": "0x87",
>> + "EventName": "EXC_FIQ",
>> + "BriefDescription": "Exception taken, FIQ"
>> + },
>> + {,
>> + "EventCode": "0xC6",
>> + "EventName": "PRE_DECODE_ERR",
>> + "BriefDescription": "Pre-decode error"
>> + },
>> + {,
>> + "EventCode": "0xD0",
>> + "EventName": "L1I_CACHE_ERR",
>> + "BriefDescription": "L1 Instruction Cache (data or tag) memory error"
>> + },
>> + {,
>> + "EventCode": "0xD1",
>> + "EventName": "L1D_CACHE_ERR",
>> + "BriefDescription": "L1 Data Cache (data, tag or dirty) memory error, correctable or non-correctable"
>> + },
>> + {,
>> + "EventCode": "0xD2",
>> + "EventName": "TLB_ERR",
>> + "BriefDescription": "TLB memory error"
>> + }
>> +]
>> diff --git a/tools/perf/pmu-events/arch/arm64/cortex-a53/pipeline.json b/tools/perf/pmu-events/arch/arm64/cortex-a53/pipeline.json
>> new file mode 100644
>> index 000000000000..3149fb90555a
>> --- /dev/null
>> +++ b/tools/perf/pmu-events/arch/arm64/cortex-a53/pipeline.json
>> @@ -0,0 +1,52 @@
>> +[
>> + {,
>> + "EventCode": "0xC7",
>> + "EventName": "STALL_SB_FULL",
>> + "BriefDescription": "Data Write operation that stalls the pipeline because the store buffer is full"
>> + },
>> + {,
>> + "EventCode": "0xE0",
>> + "EventName": "OTHER_IQ_DEP_STALL",
>> + "BriefDescription": "Cycles that the DPU IQ is empty and that is not because of a recent micro-TLB miss, instruction cache miss or pre-decode error"
>> + },
>> + {,
>> + "EventCode": "0xE1",
>> + "EventName": "IC_DEP_STALL",
>> + "BriefDescription": "Cycles the DPU IQ is empty and there is an instruction cache miss being processed"
>> + },
>> + {,
>> + "EventCode": "0xE2",
>> + "EventName": "IUTLB_DEP_STALL",
>> + "BriefDescription": "Cycles the DPU IQ is empty and there is an instruction micro-TLB miss being processed"
>> + },
>> + {,
>> + "EventCode": "0xE3",
>> + "EventName": "DECODE_DEP_STALL",
>> + "BriefDescription": "Cycles the DPU IQ is empty and there is a pre-decode error being processed"
>> + },
>> + {,
>> + "EventCode": "0xE4",
>> + "EventName": "OTHER_INTERLOCK_STALL",
>> + "BriefDescription": "Cycles there is an interlock other than Advanced SIMD/Floating-point instructions or load/store instruction"
>> + },
>> + {,
>> + "EventCode": "0xE5",
>> + "EventName": "AGU_DEP_STALL",
>> + "BriefDescription": "Cycles there is an interlock for a load/store instruction waiting for data to calculate the address in the AGU"
>> + },
>> + {,
>> + "EventCode": "0xE6",
>> + "EventName": "SIMD_DEP_STALL",
>> + "BriefDescription": "Cycles there is an interlock for an Advanced SIMD/Floating-point operation."
>> + },
>> + {,
>> + "EventCode": "0xE7",
>> + "EventName": "LD_DEP_STALL",
>> + "BriefDescription": "Cycles there is a stall in the Wr stage because of a load miss"
>> + },
>> + {,
>> + "EventCode": "0xE8",
>> + "EventName": "ST_DEP_STALL",
>> + "BriefDescription": "Cycles there is a stall in the Wr stage because of a store"
>> + }
>> +]
>> diff --git a/tools/perf/pmu-events/arch/arm64/mapfile.csv b/tools/perf/pmu-events/arch/arm64/mapfile.csv
>> index 219d6756134e..e61c9ca6cf9e 100644
>> --- a/tools/perf/pmu-events/arch/arm64/mapfile.csv
>> +++ b/tools/perf/pmu-events/arch/arm64/mapfile.csv
>> @@ -13,3 +13,4 @@
>> #
>> #Family-model,Version,Filename,EventType
>> 0x00000000420f5160,v1,cavium,core
>> +0x00000000410fd03[[:xdigit:]],v1,cortex-a53,core
>> --
>> 2.14.3