[PATCH v2] perf: RISC-V: Check standard event availability
Alexandre Ghiti
alex at ghiti.fr
Fri May 24 13:00:39 PDT 2024
Hi Samuel,
On 26/04/2024 17:38, Atish Patra wrote:
> On 4/17/24 18:46, Samuel Holland wrote:
>> The RISC-V SBI PMU specification defines several standard hardware and
>> cache events. Currently, all of these events are exposed to userspace,
>> even when not actually implemented. They appear in the `perf list`
>> output, and commands like `perf stat` try to use them.
>>
>> This is more than just a cosmetic issue, because the PMU driver's .add
>> function fails for these events, which causes pmu_groups_sched_in() to
>> prematurely stop scheduling in other (possibly valid) hardware events.
>>
>> Add logic to check which events are supported by the hardware (i.e. can
>> be mapped to some counter), so only usable events are reported to
>> userspace. Since the kernel does not know the mapping between events and
>> possible counters, this check must happen during boot, when no counters
>> are in use. Make the check asynchronous to minimize impact on boot time.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Samuel Holland <samuel.holland at sifive.com>
>> ---
>> Before this patch:
>> $ perf list hw
>>
>> List of pre-defined events (to be used in -e or -M):
>>
>> branch-instructions OR branches [Hardware event]
>> branch-misses [Hardware event]
>> bus-cycles [Hardware event]
>> cache-misses [Hardware event]
>> cache-references [Hardware event]
>> cpu-cycles OR cycles [Hardware event]
>> instructions [Hardware event]
>> ref-cycles [Hardware event]
>> stalled-cycles-backend OR idle-cycles-backend [Hardware event]
>> stalled-cycles-frontend OR idle-cycles-frontend [Hardware event]
>>
>> $ perf stat -ddd true
>>
>> Performance counter stats for 'true':
>>
>> 4.36 msec task-clock # 0.744
>> CPUs utilized
>> 1 context-switches # 229.325 /sec
>> 0 cpu-migrations # 0.000 /sec
>> 38 page-faults # 8.714 K/sec
>> 4,375,694 cycles # 1.003
>> GHz (60.64%)
>> 728,945 instructions # 0.17
>> insn per cycle
>> 79,199 branches # 18.162 M/sec
>> 17,709 branch-misses # 22.36% of
>> all branches
>> 181,734 L1-dcache-loads # 41.676 M/sec
>> 5,547 L1-dcache-load-misses # 3.05% of
>> all L1-dcache accesses
>> <not counted> LLC-loads (0.00%)
>> <not counted> LLC-load-misses (0.00%)
>> <not counted> L1-icache-loads (0.00%)
>> <not counted> L1-icache-load-misses (0.00%)
>> <not counted> dTLB-loads (0.00%)
>> <not counted> dTLB-load-misses (0.00%)
>> <not counted> iTLB-loads (0.00%)
>> <not counted> iTLB-load-misses (0.00%)
>> <not counted> L1-dcache-prefetches (0.00%)
>> <not counted> L1-dcache-prefetch-misses (0.00%)
>>
>> 0.005860375 seconds time elapsed
>>
>> 0.000000000 seconds user
>> 0.010383000 seconds sys
>>
>> After this patch:
>> $ perf list hw
>>
>> List of pre-defined events (to be used in -e or -M):
>>
>> branch-instructions OR branches [Hardware event]
>> branch-misses [Hardware event]
>> cache-misses [Hardware event]
>> cache-references [Hardware event]
>> cpu-cycles OR cycles [Hardware event]
>> instructions [Hardware event]
>>
>> $ perf stat -ddd true
>>
>> Performance counter stats for 'true':
>>
>> 5.16 msec task-clock # 0.848
>> CPUs utilized
>> 1 context-switches # 193.817 /sec
>> 0 cpu-migrations # 0.000 /sec
>> 37 page-faults # 7.171 K/sec
>> 5,183,625 cycles # 1.005 GHz
>> 961,696 instructions # 0.19
>> insn per cycle
>> 85,853 branches # 16.640 M/sec
>> 20,462 branch-misses # 23.83% of
>> all branches
>> 243,545 L1-dcache-loads # 47.203 M/sec
>> 5,974 L1-dcache-load-misses # 2.45% of
>> all L1-dcache accesses
>> <not supported> LLC-loads
>> <not supported> LLC-load-misses
>> <not supported> L1-icache-loads
>> <not supported> L1-icache-load-misses
>> <not supported> dTLB-loads
>> 19,619 dTLB-load-misses
>> <not supported> iTLB-loads
>> 6,831 iTLB-load-misses
>> <not supported> L1-dcache-prefetches
>> <not supported> L1-dcache-prefetch-misses
>>
>> 0.006085625 seconds time elapsed
>>
>> 0.000000000 seconds user
>> 0.013022000 seconds sys
>>
>>
>> Changes in v2:
>> - Move the event checking to a workqueue to make it asynchronous
>> - Add more details to the commit message based on the v1 discussion
>>
>> drivers/perf/riscv_pmu_sbi.c | 45 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---
>> 1 file changed, 42 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/perf/riscv_pmu_sbi.c b/drivers/perf/riscv_pmu_sbi.c
>> index 8cbe6e5f9c39..c326954af066 100644
>> --- a/drivers/perf/riscv_pmu_sbi.c
>> +++ b/drivers/perf/riscv_pmu_sbi.c
>> @@ -20,6 +20,7 @@
>> #include <linux/cpu_pm.h>
>> #include <linux/sched/clock.h>
>> #include <linux/soc/andes/irq.h>
>> +#include <linux/workqueue.h>
>> #include <asm/errata_list.h>
>> #include <asm/sbi.h>
>> @@ -109,7 +110,7 @@ struct sbi_pmu_event_data {
>> };
>> };
>> -static const struct sbi_pmu_event_data pmu_hw_event_map[] = {
>> +static struct sbi_pmu_event_data pmu_hw_event_map[] = {
>> [PERF_COUNT_HW_CPU_CYCLES] = {.hw_gen_event = {
>> SBI_PMU_HW_CPU_CYCLES,
>> SBI_PMU_EVENT_TYPE_HW, 0}},
>> @@ -143,7 +144,7 @@ static const struct sbi_pmu_event_data
>> pmu_hw_event_map[] = {
>> };
>> #define C(x) PERF_COUNT_HW_CACHE_##x
>> -static const struct sbi_pmu_event_data
>> pmu_cache_event_map[PERF_COUNT_HW_CACHE_MAX]
>> +static struct sbi_pmu_event_data
>> pmu_cache_event_map[PERF_COUNT_HW_CACHE_MAX]
>> [PERF_COUNT_HW_CACHE_OP_MAX]
>> [PERF_COUNT_HW_CACHE_RESULT_MAX] = {
>> [C(L1D)] = {
>> @@ -288,6 +289,34 @@ static const struct sbi_pmu_event_data
>> pmu_cache_event_map[PERF_COUNT_HW_CACHE_M
>> },
>> };
>> +static void pmu_sbi_check_event(struct sbi_pmu_event_data *edata)
>> +{
>> + struct sbiret ret;
>> +
>> + ret = sbi_ecall(SBI_EXT_PMU, SBI_EXT_PMU_COUNTER_CFG_MATCH,
>> + 0, cmask, 0, edata->event_idx, 0, 0);
>> + if (!ret.error) {
>> + sbi_ecall(SBI_EXT_PMU, SBI_EXT_PMU_COUNTER_STOP,
>> + ret.value, 0x1, SBI_PMU_STOP_FLAG_RESET, 0, 0, 0);
>> + } else if (ret.error == SBI_ERR_NOT_SUPPORTED) {
>> + /* This event cannot be monitored by any counter */
>> + edata->event_idx = -EINVAL;
>> + }
>> +}
>> +
>> +static void pmu_sbi_check_std_events(struct work_struct *work)
>> +{
>> + for (int i = 0; i < ARRAY_SIZE(pmu_hw_event_map); i++)
>> + pmu_sbi_check_event(&pmu_hw_event_map[i]);
>> +
>> + for (int i = 0; i < ARRAY_SIZE(pmu_cache_event_map); i++)
>> + for (int j = 0; j < ARRAY_SIZE(pmu_cache_event_map[i]); j++)
>> + for (int k = 0; k <
>> ARRAY_SIZE(pmu_cache_event_map[i][j]); k++)
>> + pmu_sbi_check_event(&pmu_cache_event_map[i][j][k]);
>> +}
>> +
>> +static DECLARE_WORK(check_std_events_work, pmu_sbi_check_std_events);
>> +
>> static int pmu_sbi_ctr_get_width(int idx)
>> {
>> return pmu_ctr_list[idx].width;
>> @@ -473,6 +502,12 @@ static int pmu_sbi_event_map(struct perf_event
>> *event, u64 *econfig)
>> u64 raw_config_val;
>> int ret;
>> + /*
>> + * Ensure we are finished checking standard hardware events for
>> + * validity before allowing userspace to configure any events.
>> + */
>> + flush_work(&check_std_events_work);
>> +
>> switch (type) {
>> case PERF_TYPE_HARDWARE:
>> if (config >= PERF_COUNT_HW_MAX)
>> @@ -634,7 +669,8 @@ static inline void pmu_sbi_stop_all(struct
>> riscv_pmu *pmu)
>> * which may include counters that are not enabled yet.
>> */
>> sbi_ecall(SBI_EXT_PMU, SBI_EXT_PMU_COUNTER_STOP,
>> - 0, pmu->cmask, 0, 0, 0, 0);
>> + 0, pmu->cmask, SBI_PMU_STOP_FLAG_RESET, 0, 0, 0);
>> +
>
> Why is this required for this patch?
>
> If the intention is a generic improvement to reset mhpmevent at boot
> time, it should be separate patch.
>
>> }
>> static inline void pmu_sbi_stop_hw_ctrs(struct riscv_pmu *pmu)
>> @@ -1108,6 +1144,9 @@ static int pmu_sbi_device_probe(struct
>> platform_device *pdev)
>> register_sysctl("kernel", sbi_pmu_sysctl_table);
>> + /* Asynchronously check which standard events are available */
>> + schedule_work(&check_std_events_work);
>> +
>> return 0;
>> out_unregister:
>
> Until we have the new SBI interface defined to optimize these SBI
> calls, we can use this individual call approach to fix the current issue.
>
> lgtm otherwise.
>
> Reviewed-by: Atish Patra <atishp at rivosinc.com>
> Tested-by: Atish Patra <atishp at rivosinc.com>
Can you add a Fixes tag for this so that we can merge in 6.10-rcX?
Thanks,
Alex
>
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