Re: [RFC PATCH 1/4] perf: Read cache instance ID when building cache topology

From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
Date: Fri Mar 31 2023 - 07:54:59 EST


Em Fri, Mar 31, 2023 at 10:21:14AM +0530, K Prateek Nayak escreveu:
> CPU cache level data currently stores cache level, type, line size,
> associativity, sets, total cache size, and the CPUs sharing the cache.
> Also read and store the cache instance ID from
> "/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/cache/indexY/id" in the cache level data.
> Use instance ID as well when comparing cache levels.

And if a new perf tool is used in an older kernel without this new 'id'
file?

Please check if the file exists, if it doesn't don't fail, just
initialize with a zero, this way the latest perf will be usable in older
kernels.

- Arnaldo

> Signed-off-by: K Prateek Nayak <kprateek.nayak@xxxxxxx>
> ---
> tools/perf/util/env.h | 1 +
> tools/perf/util/header.c | 7 +++++++
> 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/tools/perf/util/env.h b/tools/perf/util/env.h
> index 4566c51f2fd9..d761bfae76af 100644
> --- a/tools/perf/util/env.h
> +++ b/tools/perf/util/env.h
> @@ -17,6 +17,7 @@ struct cpu_topology_map {
>
> struct cpu_cache_level {
> u32 level;
> + u32 id;
> u32 line_size;
> u32 sets;
> u32 ways;
> diff --git a/tools/perf/util/header.c b/tools/perf/util/header.c
> index 404d816ca124..5c3f5d260612 100644
> --- a/tools/perf/util/header.c
> +++ b/tools/perf/util/header.c
> @@ -1131,6 +1131,9 @@ static bool cpu_cache_level__cmp(struct cpu_cache_level *a, struct cpu_cache_lev
> if (a->level != b->level)
> return false;
>
> + if (a->id != b->id)
> + return false;
> +
> if (a->line_size != b->line_size)
> return false;
>
> @@ -1168,6 +1171,10 @@ static int cpu_cache_level__read(struct cpu_cache_level *cache, u32 cpu, u16 lev
> if (sysfs__read_int(file, (int *) &cache->level))
> return -1;
>
> + scnprintf(file, PATH_MAX, "%s/id", path);
> + if (sysfs__read_int(file, (int *) &cache->id))
> + return -1;
> +
> scnprintf(file, PATH_MAX, "%s/coherency_line_size", path);
> if (sysfs__read_int(file, (int *) &cache->line_size))
> return -1;
> --
> 2.34.1
>

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- Arnaldo