[tip:perf/urgent] perf/x86/intel: Add support/quirk for the MISPREDICT bit on Knights Landing CPUs
From: tip-bot for Jacek Tomaka
Date: Mon Sep 10 2018 - 06:04:24 EST
Commit-ID: 16160c1946b702dcfa95ef63389a56deb2f1c7cb
Gitweb: https://git.kernel.org/tip/16160c1946b702dcfa95ef63389a56deb2f1c7cb
Author: Jacek Tomaka <jacek.tomaka@xxxxxxxxx>
AuthorDate: Thu, 2 Aug 2018 09:38:30 +0800
Committer: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
CommitDate: Mon, 10 Sep 2018 10:03:01 +0200
perf/x86/intel: Add support/quirk for the MISPREDICT bit on Knights Landing CPUs
Problem: perf did not show branch predicted/mispredicted bit in brstack.
Output of perf -F brstack for profile collected
Before:
0x4fdbcd/0x4fdc03/-/-/-/0
0x45f4c1/0x4fdba0/-/-/-/0
0x45f544/0x45f4bb/-/-/-/0
0x45f555/0x45f53c/-/-/-/0
0x7f66901cc24b/0x45f555/-/-/-/0
0x7f66901cc22e/0x7f66901cc23d/-/-/-/0
0x7f66901cc1ff/0x7f66901cc20f/-/-/-/0
0x7f66901cc1e8/0x7f66901cc1fc/-/-/-/0
After:
0x4fdbcd/0x4fdc03/P/-/-/0
0x45f4c1/0x4fdba0/P/-/-/0
0x45f544/0x45f4bb/P/-/-/0
0x45f555/0x45f53c/P/-/-/0
0x7f66901cc24b/0x45f555/P/-/-/0
0x7f66901cc22e/0x7f66901cc23d/P/-/-/0
0x7f66901cc1ff/0x7f66901cc20f/P/-/-/0
0x7f66901cc1e8/0x7f66901cc1fc/P/-/-/0
Cause:
As mentioned in Software Development Manual vol 3, 17.4.8.1,
IA32_PERF_CAPABILITIES[5:0] indicates the format of the address that is
stored in the LBR stack. Knights Landing reports 1 (LBR_FORMAT_LIP) as
its format. Despite that, registers containing FROM address of the branch,
do have MISPREDICT bit but because of the format indicated in
IA32_PERF_CAPABILITIES[5:0], LBR did not read MISPREDICT bit.
Solution:
Teach LBR about above Knights Landing quirk and make it read MISPREDICT bit.
Signed-off-by: Jacek Tomaka <jacek.tomaka@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180802013830.10600-1-jacekt@xxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/x86/events/intel/lbr.c | 4 ++++
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
diff --git a/arch/x86/events/intel/lbr.c b/arch/x86/events/intel/lbr.c
index f3e006bed9a7..c88ed39582a1 100644
--- a/arch/x86/events/intel/lbr.c
+++ b/arch/x86/events/intel/lbr.c
@@ -1272,4 +1272,8 @@ void intel_pmu_lbr_init_knl(void)
x86_pmu.lbr_sel_mask = LBR_SEL_MASK;
x86_pmu.lbr_sel_map = snb_lbr_sel_map;
+
+ /* Knights Landing does have MISPREDICT bit */
+ if (x86_pmu.intel_cap.lbr_format == LBR_FORMAT_LIP)
+ x86_pmu.intel_cap.lbr_format = LBR_FORMAT_EIP_FLAGS;
}