Re: [PATCH 1/2] perf/x86/amd/core: Update stalled-cycles-* events for Zen 2 and later

From: Sandipan Das
Date: Tue Mar 26 2024 - 02:03:04 EST


On 3/25/2024 8:04 PM, Ian Rogers wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 25, 2024 at 12:48 AM Sandipan Das <sandipan.das@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> AMD processors based on Zen 2 and later microarchitectures do not
>> support PMCx087 (instruction pipe stalls) which is used as the backing
>> event for "stalled-cycles-frontend" and "stalled-cycles-backend". Use
>> PMCx0A9 (cycles where micro-op queue is empty) instead to count frontend
>> stalls and remove the entry for backend stalls since there is no direct
>> replacement.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Sandipan Das <sandipan.das@xxxxxxx>
>
> This looks good to me. Should there be a Fixes tag for the sake of backports?
>

My bad. Yes, there should a fixes tag.

Fixes: 3fe3331bb285 ("perf/x86/amd: Add event map for AMD Family 17h")

Ingo, I see that you have already pushed this to the perf/urgent branch.
Should I send a v2?

> Reviewed-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Thanks,
> Ian
>
>> ---
>> arch/x86/events/amd/core.c | 20 +++++++++++++++++---
>> 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/arch/x86/events/amd/core.c b/arch/x86/events/amd/core.c
>> index aec16e581f5b..afe4a809f2ed 100644
>> --- a/arch/x86/events/amd/core.c
>> +++ b/arch/x86/events/amd/core.c
>> @@ -250,7 +250,7 @@ static const u64 amd_perfmon_event_map[PERF_COUNT_HW_MAX] =
>> /*
>> * AMD Performance Monitor Family 17h and later:
>> */
>> -static const u64 amd_f17h_perfmon_event_map[PERF_COUNT_HW_MAX] =
>> +static const u64 amd_zen1_perfmon_event_map[PERF_COUNT_HW_MAX] =
>> {
>> [PERF_COUNT_HW_CPU_CYCLES] = 0x0076,
>> [PERF_COUNT_HW_INSTRUCTIONS] = 0x00c0,
>> @@ -262,10 +262,24 @@ static const u64 amd_f17h_perfmon_event_map[PERF_COUNT_HW_MAX] =
>> [PERF_COUNT_HW_STALLED_CYCLES_BACKEND] = 0x0187,
>> };
>>
>> +static const u64 amd_zen2_perfmon_event_map[PERF_COUNT_HW_MAX] =
>> +{
>> + [PERF_COUNT_HW_CPU_CYCLES] = 0x0076,
>> + [PERF_COUNT_HW_INSTRUCTIONS] = 0x00c0,
>> + [PERF_COUNT_HW_CACHE_REFERENCES] = 0xff60,
>> + [PERF_COUNT_HW_CACHE_MISSES] = 0x0964,
>> + [PERF_COUNT_HW_BRANCH_INSTRUCTIONS] = 0x00c2,
>> + [PERF_COUNT_HW_BRANCH_MISSES] = 0x00c3,
>> + [PERF_COUNT_HW_STALLED_CYCLES_FRONTEND] = 0x00a9,
>> +};
>> +
>> static u64 amd_pmu_event_map(int hw_event)
>> {
>> - if (boot_cpu_data.x86 >= 0x17)
>> - return amd_f17h_perfmon_event_map[hw_event];
>> + if (cpu_feature_enabled(X86_FEATURE_ZEN2) || boot_cpu_data.x86 >= 0x19)
>> + return amd_zen2_perfmon_event_map[hw_event];
>> +
>> + if (cpu_feature_enabled(X86_FEATURE_ZEN1))
>> + return amd_zen1_perfmon_event_map[hw_event];
>>
>> return amd_perfmon_event_map[hw_event];
>> }
>> --
>> 2.34.1
>>