[PATCH V12 09/10] arm64/perf: Implement branch records save on task sched out

Anshuman Khandual anshuman.khandual at arm.com
Thu Jun 15 06:32:38 PDT 2023


This modifies current armv8pmu_sched_task(), to implement a branch records
save mechanism via armv8pmu_branch_save() when a task scheds out of a cpu.
BRBE is paused and disabled for all exception levels before branch records
get captured, which then get concatenated with all existing stored records
present in the task context maintaining the contiguity. Although the final
length of the concatenated buffer does not exceed implemented BRBE length.

Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas at arm.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will at kernel.org>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland at arm.com>
Cc: linux-arm-kernel at lists.infradead.org
Cc: linux-kernel at vger.kernel.org
Tested-by: James Clark <james.clark at arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual at arm.com>
---
 arch/arm64/include/asm/perf_event.h |  2 ++
 drivers/perf/arm_brbe.c             | 30 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 drivers/perf/arm_pmuv3.c            | 14 ++++++++++++--
 3 files changed, 44 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/perf_event.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/perf_event.h
index b0c12a5882df..36e7dfb466a6 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/perf_event.h
+++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/perf_event.h
@@ -40,6 +40,7 @@ void armv8pmu_branch_probe(struct arm_pmu *arm_pmu);
 void armv8pmu_branch_reset(void);
 int armv8pmu_task_ctx_cache_alloc(struct arm_pmu *arm_pmu);
 void armv8pmu_task_ctx_cache_free(struct arm_pmu *arm_pmu);
+void armv8pmu_branch_save(struct arm_pmu *arm_pmu, void *ctx);
 #else
 static inline void armv8pmu_branch_read(struct pmu_hw_events *cpuc, struct perf_event *event)
 {
@@ -66,6 +67,7 @@ static inline void armv8pmu_branch_probe(struct arm_pmu *arm_pmu) { }
 static inline void armv8pmu_branch_reset(void) { }
 static inline int armv8pmu_task_ctx_cache_alloc(struct arm_pmu *arm_pmu) { return 0; }
 static inline void armv8pmu_task_ctx_cache_free(struct arm_pmu *arm_pmu) { }
+static inline void armv8pmu_branch_save(struct arm_pmu *arm_pmu, void *ctx) { }
 #endif
 #endif
 #endif
diff --git a/drivers/perf/arm_brbe.c b/drivers/perf/arm_brbe.c
index f6693699fade..3bb17ced2b1d 100644
--- a/drivers/perf/arm_brbe.c
+++ b/drivers/perf/arm_brbe.c
@@ -171,6 +171,36 @@ static int stitch_stored_live_entries(struct brbe_regset *stored,
 	return min(nr_live + nr_stored, nr_max);
 }
 
+static int brbe_branch_save(int nr_hw_entries, struct brbe_regset *live)
+{
+	u64 brbfcr = read_sysreg_s(SYS_BRBFCR_EL1);
+	int nr_live;
+
+	write_sysreg_s(brbfcr | BRBFCR_EL1_PAUSED, SYS_BRBFCR_EL1);
+	isb();
+
+	nr_live = capture_brbe_regset(nr_hw_entries, live);
+
+	write_sysreg_s(brbfcr & ~BRBFCR_EL1_PAUSED, SYS_BRBFCR_EL1);
+	isb();
+
+	return nr_live;
+}
+
+void armv8pmu_branch_save(struct arm_pmu *arm_pmu, void *ctx)
+{
+	struct arm64_perf_task_context *task_ctx = ctx;
+	struct brbe_regset live[BRBE_MAX_ENTRIES];
+	int nr_live, nr_store, nr_hw_entries;
+
+	nr_hw_entries = brbe_get_numrec(arm_pmu->reg_brbidr);
+	nr_live = brbe_branch_save(nr_hw_entries, live);
+	nr_store = task_ctx->nr_brbe_records;
+	nr_store = stitch_stored_live_entries(task_ctx->store, live, nr_store,
+					      nr_live, nr_hw_entries);
+	task_ctx->nr_brbe_records = nr_store;
+}
+
 /*
  * Generic perf branch filters supported on BRBE
  *
diff --git a/drivers/perf/arm_pmuv3.c b/drivers/perf/arm_pmuv3.c
index 3c079051a63a..53f404618891 100644
--- a/drivers/perf/arm_pmuv3.c
+++ b/drivers/perf/arm_pmuv3.c
@@ -907,9 +907,19 @@ static int armv8pmu_user_event_idx(struct perf_event *event)
 static void armv8pmu_sched_task(struct perf_event_pmu_context *pmu_ctx, bool sched_in)
 {
 	struct arm_pmu *armpmu = to_arm_pmu(pmu_ctx->pmu);
+	void *task_ctx = pmu_ctx ? pmu_ctx->task_ctx_data : NULL;
 
-	if (sched_in && armpmu->has_branch_stack)
-		armv8pmu_branch_reset();
+	if (armpmu->has_branch_stack) {
+		/* Save branch records in task_ctx on sched out */
+		if (task_ctx && !sched_in) {
+			armv8pmu_branch_save(armpmu, task_ctx);
+			return;
+		}
+
+		/* Reset branch records on sched in */
+		if (sched_in)
+			armv8pmu_branch_reset();
+	}
 }
 
 /*
-- 
2.25.1




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