Re: [PATCH 04/13] x86/cpufeatures: Add LbrExtV2 feature bit

[Stephane Eranian]

Hi,

On Mon, Aug 15, 2022 at 4:27 AM Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Aug 11, 2022 at 05:59:52PM +0530, Sandipan Das wrote:
> > CPUID leaf 0x80000022 i.e. ExtPerfMonAndDbg advertises some new performance
> > monitoring features for AMD processors.
> >
> > Bit 1 of EAX indicates support for Last Branch Record Extension Version 2
> > (LbrExtV2) features. If found to be set during PMU initialization, the EBX
> > bits of the same leaf can be used to determine the number of available LBR
> > entries.
> >
> > For better utilization of feature words, LbrExtV2 is added as a scattered
> > feature bit.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Sandipan Das <sandipan.das@xxxxxxx>
> > ---
> >  arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h | 2 +-
> >  arch/x86/kernel/cpu/scattered.c    | 1 +
> >  2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h
> > index 393f2bbb5e3a..e3fa476a24b0 100644
> > --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h
> > +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h
> > @@ -96,7 +96,7 @@
> >  #define X86_FEATURE_SYSCALL32                ( 3*32+14) /* "" syscall in IA32 userspace */
> >  #define X86_FEATURE_SYSENTER32               ( 3*32+15) /* "" sysenter in IA32 userspace */
> >  #define X86_FEATURE_REP_GOOD         ( 3*32+16) /* REP microcode works well */
> > -/* FREE!                                ( 3*32+17) */
> > +#define X86_FEATURE_LBREXT_V2                ( 3*32+17) /* AMD Last Branch Record Extension Version 2 */
> >  #define X86_FEATURE_LFENCE_RDTSC     ( 3*32+18) /* "" LFENCE synchronizes RDTSC */
> >  #define X86_FEATURE_ACC_POWER                ( 3*32+19) /* AMD Accumulated Power Mechanism */
> >  #define X86_FEATURE_NOPL             ( 3*32+20) /* The NOPL (0F 1F) instructions */
> > diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/scattered.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/scattered.c
> > index dbaa8326d6f2..6be46dffddbf 100644
> > --- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/scattered.c
> > +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/scattered.c
> > @@ -44,6 +44,7 @@ static const struct cpuid_bit cpuid_bits[] = {
> >       { X86_FEATURE_PROC_FEEDBACK,    CPUID_EDX, 11, 0x80000007, 0 },
> >       { X86_FEATURE_MBA,              CPUID_EBX,  6, 0x80000008, 0 },
> >       { X86_FEATURE_PERFMON_V2,       CPUID_EAX,  0, 0x80000022, 0 },
> > +     { X86_FEATURE_LBREXT_V2,        CPUID_EAX,  1, 0x80000022, 0 },
> >       { 0, 0, 0, 0, 0 }
> >  };
>
> Would LBR_V2 work at all? It being a new version already seems to imply
> extention, no? Then again, I suppose there's an argument to be had for
> avoiding confusion vs the Intel LBR thing.. Couldn't you have called
> this BRS_V2 :-)
>
I believe it is called v2 because there was already a LBR in previous
generations, however it
was 1-deep and it was not connected to the PMU like this one. The
public PPR mentions it
(MSR 0x1DB/0x1DC, Last Branch From IP, Last Branch To IP). See for
instance the PPR
for Fam17h model 71h:
https://www.amd.com/system/files/TechDocs/56176_ppr_Family_17h_Model_71h_B0_pub_Rev_3.06.zip

BRS is a model specific feature for Zen3.

LBRv2 is a great improvement including over Zen3 BRS.