[PATCH v2 07/10] perf vendor events intel: Update meteorlake events from 1.18 to 1.20
From: Ian Rogers
Date: Thu Feb 26 2026 - 13:12:52 EST
The updated events were published in:
https://github.com/intel/perfmon/commit/2eebd8e2612a0655e82b88e1d2fab960315c025b
https://github.com/intel/perfmon/commit/81c4ce2c16f05b839d2c40e8cf183ed110357b73
Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
tools/perf/pmu-events/arch/x86/mapfile.csv | 2 +-
.../pmu-events/arch/x86/meteorlake/cache.json | 67 ++++++++++++++++---
.../arch/x86/meteorlake/frontend.json | 18 +++++
.../arch/x86/meteorlake/pipeline.json | 46 +++++++++++--
4 files changed, 116 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-)
diff --git a/tools/perf/pmu-events/arch/x86/mapfile.csv b/tools/perf/pmu-events/arch/x86/mapfile.csv
index a2dde3faad5e..8d8fd8b08166 100644
--- a/tools/perf/pmu-events/arch/x86/mapfile.csv
+++ b/tools/perf/pmu-events/arch/x86/mapfile.csv
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ GenuineIntel-6-3E,v24,ivytown,core
GenuineIntel-6-2D,v24,jaketown,core
GenuineIntel-6-(57|85),v16,knightslanding,core
GenuineIntel-6-BD,v1.21,lunarlake,core
-GenuineIntel-6-(AA|AC|B5),v1.18,meteorlake,core
+GenuineIntel-6-(AA|AC|B5),v1.20,meteorlake,core
GenuineIntel-6-1[AEF],v4,nehalemep,core
GenuineIntel-6-2E,v4,nehalemex,core
GenuineIntel-6-CC,v1.02,pantherlake,core
diff --git a/tools/perf/pmu-events/arch/x86/meteorlake/cache.json b/tools/perf/pmu-events/arch/x86/meteorlake/cache.json
index d3fc04b2ffbd..4c1220c19456 100644
--- a/tools/perf/pmu-events/arch/x86/meteorlake/cache.json
+++ b/tools/perf/pmu-events/arch/x86/meteorlake/cache.json
@@ -513,6 +513,15 @@
"UMask": "0x6",
"Unit": "cpu_atom"
},
+ {
+ "BriefDescription": "Counts the number of unhalted cycles when the core is stalled due to an ICACHE or ITLB miss which hit in the LLC, no snoop was required. LLC provides the data. If the core has access to an L3 cache, an LLC hit refers to an L3 cache hit, otherwise it counts zeros.",
+ "Counter": "0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7",
+ "EventCode": "0x35",
+ "EventName": "MEM_BOUND_STALLS_IFETCH.LLC_HIT_NOSNOOP",
+ "SampleAfterValue": "1000003",
+ "UMask": "0x2",
+ "Unit": "cpu_atom"
+ },
{
"BriefDescription": "Counts the number of unhalted cycles when the core is stalled due to an ICACHE or ITLB miss which missed all the caches. If the core has access to an L3 cache, an LLC miss refers to an L3 cache miss, otherwise it is an L2 cache miss.",
"Counter": "0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7",
@@ -522,6 +531,15 @@
"UMask": "0x78",
"Unit": "cpu_atom"
},
+ {
+ "BriefDescription": "Counts the number of unhalted cycles when the core is stalled due to an ICACHE or ITLB miss which missed all the caches. DRAM, MMIO or other LOCAL memory type provides the data. If the core has access to an L3 cache, an LLC miss refers to an L3 cache miss, otherwise it is an L2 cache miss.",
+ "Counter": "0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7",
+ "EventCode": "0x35",
+ "EventName": "MEM_BOUND_STALLS_IFETCH.LLC_MISS_LOCALMEM",
+ "SampleAfterValue": "1000003",
+ "UMask": "0x50",
+ "Unit": "cpu_atom"
+ },
{
"BriefDescription": "Counts the number of unhalted cycles when the core is stalled due to an L1 demand load miss.",
"Counter": "0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7",
@@ -559,6 +577,24 @@
"UMask": "0x6",
"Unit": "cpu_atom"
},
+ {
+ "BriefDescription": "Counts the number of unhalted cycles when the core is stalled due to a demand load miss which hit in the LLC, no snoop was required. LLC provides the data. If the core has access to an L3 cache, an LLC hit refers to an L3 cache hit, otherwise it counts zeros.",
+ "Counter": "0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7",
+ "EventCode": "0x34",
+ "EventName": "MEM_BOUND_STALLS_LOAD.LLC_HIT_NOSNOOP",
+ "SampleAfterValue": "1000003",
+ "UMask": "0x2",
+ "Unit": "cpu_atom"
+ },
+ {
+ "BriefDescription": "Counts the number of unhalted cycles when the core is stalled due to a demand load miss which hit in the LLC, a snoop was required, the snoop misses or the snoop hits but NO_FWD. LLC provides the data. If the core has access to an L3 cache, an LLC hit refers to an L3 cache hit, otherwise it counts zeros.",
+ "Counter": "0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7",
+ "EventCode": "0x34",
+ "EventName": "MEM_BOUND_STALLS_LOAD.LLC_HIT_SNOOP",
+ "SampleAfterValue": "1000003",
+ "UMask": "0x4",
+ "Unit": "cpu_atom"
+ },
{
"BriefDescription": "Counts the number of unhalted cycles when the core is stalled due to a demand load miss which missed all the local caches. If the core has access to an L3 cache, an LLC miss refers to an L3 cache miss, otherwise it is an L2 cache miss.",
"Counter": "0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7",
@@ -568,6 +604,15 @@
"UMask": "0x78",
"Unit": "cpu_atom"
},
+ {
+ "BriefDescription": "Counts the number of unhalted cycles when the core is stalled to a demand load miss and the data was provided from an unknown source. If the core has access to an L3 cache, an LLC miss refers to an L3 cache miss, otherwise it is an L2 cache miss.",
+ "Counter": "0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7",
+ "EventCode": "0x34",
+ "EventName": "MEM_BOUND_STALLS_LOAD.LLC_MISS_LOCALMEM",
+ "SampleAfterValue": "1000003",
+ "UMask": "0x50",
+ "Unit": "cpu_atom"
+ },
{
"BriefDescription": "Counts the number of unhalted cycles when the core is stalled to a store buffer full condition",
"Counter": "0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7",
@@ -969,7 +1014,7 @@
"Unit": "cpu_atom"
},
{
- "BriefDescription": "Counts the number of tagged load uops retired that exceed the latency threshold defined in MEC_CR_PEBS_LD_LAT_THRESHOLD - Only counts with PEBS enabled.",
+ "BriefDescription": "Counts the number of tagged load uops retired that exceed the latency threshold of 1024. Only counts with PEBS enabled.",
"Counter": "0,1",
"Data_LA": "1",
"EventCode": "0xd0",
@@ -981,7 +1026,7 @@
"Unit": "cpu_atom"
},
{
- "BriefDescription": "Counts the number of tagged load uops retired that exceed the latency threshold defined in MEC_CR_PEBS_LD_LAT_THRESHOLD - Only counts with PEBS enabled.",
+ "BriefDescription": "Counts the number of tagged load uops retired that exceed the latency threshold of 128. Only counts with PEBS enabled.",
"Counter": "0,1",
"Data_LA": "1",
"EventCode": "0xd0",
@@ -993,7 +1038,7 @@
"Unit": "cpu_atom"
},
{
- "BriefDescription": "Counts the number of tagged load uops retired that exceed the latency threshold defined in MEC_CR_PEBS_LD_LAT_THRESHOLD - Only counts with PEBS enabled.",
+ "BriefDescription": "Counts the number of tagged load uops retired that exceed the latency threshold of 16. Only counts with PEBS enabled.",
"Counter": "0,1",
"Data_LA": "1",
"EventCode": "0xd0",
@@ -1005,7 +1050,7 @@
"Unit": "cpu_atom"
},
{
- "BriefDescription": "Counts the number of tagged load uops retired that exceed the latency threshold defined in MEC_CR_PEBS_LD_LAT_THRESHOLD - Only counts with PEBS enabled.",
+ "BriefDescription": "Counts the number of tagged load uops retired that exceed the latency threshold of 2048. Only counts with PEBS enabled.",
"Counter": "0,1",
"Data_LA": "1",
"EventCode": "0xd0",
@@ -1017,7 +1062,7 @@
"Unit": "cpu_atom"
},
{
- "BriefDescription": "Counts the number of tagged load uops retired that exceed the latency threshold defined in MEC_CR_PEBS_LD_LAT_THRESHOLD - Only counts with PEBS enabled.",
+ "BriefDescription": "Counts the number of tagged load uops retired that exceed the latency threshold of 256. Only counts with PEBS enabled.",
"Counter": "0,1",
"Data_LA": "1",
"EventCode": "0xd0",
@@ -1029,7 +1074,7 @@
"Unit": "cpu_atom"
},
{
- "BriefDescription": "Counts the number of tagged load uops retired that exceed the latency threshold defined in MEC_CR_PEBS_LD_LAT_THRESHOLD - Only counts with PEBS enabled.",
+ "BriefDescription": "Counts the number of tagged load uops retired that exceed the latency threshold of 32. Only counts with PEBS enabled.",
"Counter": "0,1",
"Data_LA": "1",
"EventCode": "0xd0",
@@ -1041,7 +1086,7 @@
"Unit": "cpu_atom"
},
{
- "BriefDescription": "Counts the number of tagged load uops retired that exceed the latency threshold defined in MEC_CR_PEBS_LD_LAT_THRESHOLD - Only counts with PEBS enabled.",
+ "BriefDescription": "Counts the number of tagged load uops retired that exceed the latency threshold of 4. Only counts with PEBS enabled.",
"Counter": "0,1",
"Data_LA": "1",
"EventCode": "0xd0",
@@ -1053,7 +1098,7 @@
"Unit": "cpu_atom"
},
{
- "BriefDescription": "Counts the number of tagged load uops retired that exceed the latency threshold defined in MEC_CR_PEBS_LD_LAT_THRESHOLD - Only counts with PEBS enabled.",
+ "BriefDescription": "Counts the number of tagged load uops retired that exceed the latency threshold of 512. Only counts with PEBS enabled.",
"Counter": "0,1",
"Data_LA": "1",
"EventCode": "0xd0",
@@ -1065,7 +1110,7 @@
"Unit": "cpu_atom"
},
{
- "BriefDescription": "Counts the number of tagged load uops retired that exceed the latency threshold defined in MEC_CR_PEBS_LD_LAT_THRESHOLD - Only counts with PEBS enabled.",
+ "BriefDescription": "Counts the number of tagged load uops retired that exceed the latency threshold of 64. Only counts with PEBS enabled.",
"Counter": "0,1",
"Data_LA": "1",
"EventCode": "0xd0",
@@ -1077,7 +1122,7 @@
"Unit": "cpu_atom"
},
{
- "BriefDescription": "Counts the number of tagged load uops retired that exceed the latency threshold defined in MEC_CR_PEBS_LD_LAT_THRESHOLD - Only counts with PEBS enabled.",
+ "BriefDescription": "Counts the number of tagged load uops retired that exceed the latency threshold of 8. Only counts with PEBS enabled.",
"Counter": "0,1",
"Data_LA": "1",
"EventCode": "0xd0",
@@ -1159,7 +1204,7 @@
"Unit": "cpu_atom"
},
{
- "BriefDescription": "Counts the number of stores uops retired same as MEM_UOPS_RETIRED.ALL_STORES",
+ "BriefDescription": "Counts the number of stores uops retired.",
"Counter": "0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7",
"Data_LA": "1",
"EventCode": "0xd0",
diff --git a/tools/perf/pmu-events/arch/x86/meteorlake/frontend.json b/tools/perf/pmu-events/arch/x86/meteorlake/frontend.json
index 6484834b1127..dcf8c8e720f3 100644
--- a/tools/perf/pmu-events/arch/x86/meteorlake/frontend.json
+++ b/tools/perf/pmu-events/arch/x86/meteorlake/frontend.json
@@ -430,6 +430,24 @@
"UMask": "0x4",
"Unit": "cpu_core"
},
+ {
+ "BriefDescription": "ICACHE_TAG.STALLS_INUSE",
+ "Counter": "0,1,2,3",
+ "EventCode": "0x83",
+ "EventName": "ICACHE_TAG.STALLS_INUSE",
+ "SampleAfterValue": "200003",
+ "UMask": "0x10",
+ "Unit": "cpu_core"
+ },
+ {
+ "BriefDescription": "ICACHE_TAG.STALLS_ISB",
+ "Counter": "0,1,2,3",
+ "EventCode": "0x83",
+ "EventName": "ICACHE_TAG.STALLS_ISB",
+ "SampleAfterValue": "200003",
+ "UMask": "0x8",
+ "Unit": "cpu_core"
+ },
{
"BriefDescription": "Cycles Decode Stream Buffer (DSB) is delivering any Uop",
"Counter": "0,1,2,3",
diff --git a/tools/perf/pmu-events/arch/x86/meteorlake/pipeline.json b/tools/perf/pmu-events/arch/x86/meteorlake/pipeline.json
index bfdaabe9377d..7662846745bd 100644
--- a/tools/perf/pmu-events/arch/x86/meteorlake/pipeline.json
+++ b/tools/perf/pmu-events/arch/x86/meteorlake/pipeline.json
@@ -517,7 +517,7 @@
"Unit": "cpu_core"
},
{
- "BriefDescription": "Fixed Counter: Counts the number of unhalted core clock cycles",
+ "BriefDescription": "Fixed Counter: Counts the number of unhalted core clock cycles. [This event is alias to CPU_CLK_UNHALTED.THREAD]",
"Counter": "Fixed counter 1",
"EventName": "CPU_CLK_UNHALTED.CORE",
"SampleAfterValue": "2000003",
@@ -583,7 +583,7 @@
"Unit": "cpu_core"
},
{
- "BriefDescription": "Fixed Counter: Counts the number of unhalted reference clock cycles",
+ "BriefDescription": "Fixed Counter: Counts the number of unhalted reference clock cycles.",
"Counter": "Fixed counter 2",
"EventName": "CPU_CLK_UNHALTED.REF_TSC",
"SampleAfterValue": "2000003",
@@ -620,7 +620,7 @@
"Unit": "cpu_core"
},
{
- "BriefDescription": "Fixed Counter: Counts the number of unhalted core clock cycles",
+ "BriefDescription": "Fixed Counter: Counts the number of unhalted core clock cycles. [This event is alias to CPU_CLK_UNHALTED.CORE]",
"Counter": "Fixed counter 1",
"EventName": "CPU_CLK_UNHALTED.THREAD",
"SampleAfterValue": "2000003",
@@ -804,10 +804,10 @@
"Unit": "cpu_core"
},
{
- "BriefDescription": "Fixed Counter: Counts the number of instructions retired",
+ "BriefDescription": "Fixed Counter: Counts the number of instructions retired.",
"Counter": "Fixed counter 0",
"EventName": "INST_RETIRED.ANY",
- "PublicDescription": "Fixed Counter: Counts the number of instructions retired Available PDIST counters: 32",
+ "PublicDescription": "Fixed Counter: Counts the number of instructions retired. Available PDIST counters: 32",
"SampleAfterValue": "2000003",
"UMask": "0x1",
"Unit": "cpu_atom"
@@ -1207,6 +1207,42 @@
"UMask": "0x20",
"Unit": "cpu_core"
},
+ {
+ "BriefDescription": "Counts the number of CLFLUSH, CLWB, and CLDEMOTE instructions retired.",
+ "Counter": "0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7",
+ "EventCode": "0xe0",
+ "EventName": "MISC_RETIRED1.CL_INST",
+ "SampleAfterValue": "1000003",
+ "UMask": "0xff",
+ "Unit": "cpu_atom"
+ },
+ {
+ "BriefDescription": "Counts the number of LFENCE instructions retired.",
+ "Counter": "0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7",
+ "EventCode": "0xe0",
+ "EventName": "MISC_RETIRED1.LFENCE",
+ "SampleAfterValue": "1000003",
+ "UMask": "0x2",
+ "Unit": "cpu_atom"
+ },
+ {
+ "BriefDescription": "Counts the number of accesses to KeyLocker cache.",
+ "Counter": "0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7",
+ "EventCode": "0xe1",
+ "EventName": "MISC_RETIRED2.KEYLOCKER_ACCESS",
+ "SampleAfterValue": "1000003",
+ "UMask": "0x10",
+ "Unit": "cpu_atom"
+ },
+ {
+ "BriefDescription": "Counts the number of misses to KeyLocker cache.",
+ "Counter": "0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7",
+ "EventCode": "0xe1",
+ "EventName": "MISC_RETIRED2.KEYLOCKER_MISS",
+ "SampleAfterValue": "1000003",
+ "UMask": "0x11",
+ "Unit": "cpu_atom"
+ },
{
"BriefDescription": "Cycles stalled due to no store buffers available. (not including draining form sync).",
"Counter": "0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7",
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