Re: [RFC 0/9] RISC-V SBI v2.0 PMU improvements and Perf sampling in KVM guest
From: Atish Kumar Patra
Date: Thu Dec 07 2023 - 17:28:54 EST
On Thu, Dec 7, 2023 at 4:03 AM Conor Dooley <conor.dooley@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hey Atish,
>
> On Mon, Dec 04, 2023 at 06:43:01PM -0800, Atish Patra wrote:
> > This series implements SBI PMU improvements done in SBI v2.0[1] i.e. PMU snapshot
> > and fw_read_hi() functions.
>
> I don't see any commentary in this cover letter as to why the series is
> an RFC. v2.0 is a frozen spec per the Releases tab on GitHub, so that
> has ruled out the usual reason for spec related things being RFCs.
>
> What is it about the series that you are not yet willing to stand over?
>
Nothing. It's just my script where I tag any first version of a
feature series as RFC :).
I am planning to send the next one with a version tag this week as I
got some feedback.
Thanks for reviewing the patches :).
> Cheers,
> Conor.
>
> > SBI v2.0 introduced PMU snapshot feature which allows the SBI implementation
> > to provide counter information (i.e. values/overlfow status) via a shared
> > memory between the SBI implementation and supervisor OS. This allows to minimize
> > the number of traps in when perf being used inside a kvm guest as it relies on
> > SBI PMU + trap/emulation of the counters.
> >
> > The current set of ratified RISC-V specification also doesn't allow scountovf
> > to be trap/emulated by the hypervisor. The SBI PMU snapshot bridges the gap
> > in ISA as well and enables perf sampling in the guest. However, LCOFI in the
> > guest only works via IRQ filtering in AIA specification. That's why, AIA
> > has to be enabled in the hardware (at least the Ssaia extension) in order to
> > use the sampling support in the perf.
> >
> > Here are the patch wise implementation details.
> >
> > PATCH 1-2 : Generic cleanups/improvements.
> > PATCH 3,4,9 : FW_READ_HI function implementation
> > PATCH 5-6: Add PMU snapshot feature in sbi pmu driver
> > PATCH 7-8: KVM implementation for snapshot and sampling in kvm guests
> >
> > The series is based on v6.70-rc3 and is available at:
> >
> > https://github.com/atishp04/linux/tree/kvm_pmu_snapshot_v1
> >
> > The kvmtool patch is also available at:
> > https://github.com/atishp04/kvmtool/tree/sscofpmf
> >
> > It also requires Ssaia ISA extension to be present in the hardware in order to
> > get perf sampling support in the guest. In Qemu virt machine, it can be done
> > by the following config.
> >
> > ```
> > -cpu rv64,sscofpmf=true,x-ssaia=true
> > ```
> >
> > There is no other dependancies on AIA apart from that. Thus, Ssaia must be disabled
> > for the guest if AIA patches are not available. Here is the example command.
> >
> > ```
> > ./lkvm-static run -m 256 -c2 --console serial -p "console=ttyS0 earlycon" --disable-ssaia -k ./Image --debug
> > ```
> >
> > The series has been tested only in Qemu.
> > Here is the snippet of the perf running inside a kvm guest.
> >
> > ===================================================
> > # perf record -e cycles -e instructions perf bench sched messaging -g 5
> > ...
> > # Running 'sched/messaging' benchmark:
> > ...
> > [ 45.928723] perf_duration_warn: 2 callbacks suppressed
> > [ 45.929000] perf: interrupt took too long (484426 > 483186), lowering kernel.perf_event_max_sample_rate to 250
> > # 20 sender and receiver processes per group
> > # 5 groups == 200 processes run
> >
> > Total time: 14.220 [sec]
> > [ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ]
> > [ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.117 MB perf.data (1942 samples) ]
> > # perf report --stdio
> > # To display the perf.data header info, please use --header/--header-only optio>
> > #
> > #
> > # Total Lost Samples: 0
> > #
> > # Samples: 943 of event 'cycles'
> > # Event count (approx.): 5128976844
> > #
> > # Overhead Command Shared Object Symbol >
> > # ........ ............... ........................... .....................>
> > #
> > 7.59% sched-messaging [kernel.kallsyms] [k] memcpy
> > 5.48% sched-messaging [kernel.kallsyms] [k] percpu_counter_ad>
> > 5.24% sched-messaging [kernel.kallsyms] [k] __sbi_rfence_v02_>
> > 4.00% sched-messaging [kernel.kallsyms] [k] _raw_spin_unlock_>
> > 3.79% sched-messaging [kernel.kallsyms] [k] set_pte_range
> > 3.72% sched-messaging [kernel.kallsyms] [k] next_uptodate_fol>
> > 3.46% sched-messaging [kernel.kallsyms] [k] filemap_map_pages
> > 3.31% sched-messaging [kernel.kallsyms] [k] handle_mm_fault
> > 3.20% sched-messaging [kernel.kallsyms] [k] finish_task_switc>
> > 3.16% sched-messaging [kernel.kallsyms] [k] clear_page
> > 3.03% sched-messaging [kernel.kallsyms] [k] mtree_range_walk
> > 2.42% sched-messaging [kernel.kallsyms] [k] flush_icache_pte
> >
> > ===================================================
> >
> > [1] https://github.com/riscv-non-isa/riscv-sbi-doc
> >
> > Atish Patra (9):
> > RISC-V: Fix the typo in Scountovf CSR name
> > drivers/perf: riscv: Add a flag to indicate SBI v2.0 support
> > RISC-V: Add FIRMWARE_READ_HI definition
> > drivers/perf: riscv: Read upper bits of a firmware counter
> > RISC-V: Add SBI PMU snapshot definitions
> > drivers/perf: riscv: Implement SBI PMU snapshot function
> > RISC-V: KVM: Implement SBI PMU Snapshot feature
> > RISC-V: KVM: Add perf sampling support for guests
> > RISC-V: KVM: Support 64 bit firmware counters on RV32
> >
> > arch/riscv/include/asm/csr.h | 5 +-
> > arch/riscv/include/asm/errata_list.h | 2 +-
> > arch/riscv/include/asm/kvm_vcpu_pmu.h | 16 +-
> > arch/riscv/include/asm/sbi.h | 11 ++
> > arch/riscv/include/uapi/asm/kvm.h | 1 +
> > arch/riscv/kvm/main.c | 1 +
> > arch/riscv/kvm/vcpu.c | 8 +-
> > arch/riscv/kvm/vcpu_onereg.c | 1 +
> > arch/riscv/kvm/vcpu_pmu.c | 232 ++++++++++++++++++++++++--
> > arch/riscv/kvm/vcpu_sbi_pmu.c | 10 ++
> > drivers/perf/riscv_pmu.c | 1 +
> > drivers/perf/riscv_pmu_sbi.c | 219 ++++++++++++++++++++++--
> > include/linux/perf/riscv_pmu.h | 6 +
> > 13 files changed, 478 insertions(+), 35 deletions(-)
> >
> > --
> > 2.34.1
> >