[PATCH v5 0/2] perf: riscv: Preliminary Perf Event Support on RISC-V

[Atish Patra]

On 4/24/18 11:07 AM, Atish Patra wrote:
> On 4/19/18 4:28 PM, Alan Kao wrote:
>> This implements the baseline PMU for RISC-V platforms.
>>
>> To ease future PMU portings, a guide is also written, containing
>> perf concepts, arch porting practices and some hints.
>>
>> Changes in v5:
>>    - Fix patch errors from checkpatch.pl.
>>
>> Changes in v4:
>>    - Fix several compilation errors.  Sorry for that.
>>    - Raise a warning in the write_counter body.
>>
>> Changes in v3:
>>    - Fix typos in the document.
>>    - Change the initialization routine from statically assigning PMU to
>>      device-tree-based methods, and set default to the PMU proposed in
>>      this patch.
>>
>> Changes in v2:
>>    - Fix the bug reported by Alex, which was caused by not sufficient
>>      initialization.  Check https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/3/31/251 for the
>>      discussion.
>>
>> Alan Kao (2):
>>     perf: riscv: preliminary RISC-V support
>>     perf: riscv: Add Document for Future Porting Guide
>>
>>    Documentation/riscv/pmu.txt         | 249 ++++++++++++++
>>    arch/riscv/Kconfig                  |  13 +
>>    arch/riscv/include/asm/perf_event.h |  79 ++++-
>>    arch/riscv/kernel/Makefile          |   1 +
>>    arch/riscv/kernel/perf_event.c      | 485 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>    5 files changed, 823 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>>    create mode 100644 Documentation/riscv/pmu.txt
>>    create mode 100644 arch/riscv/kernel/perf_event.c
>>
> Most of the perf tests either pass or fail because of unsupported
> event/trace point which is fine.
> 
> However, I got an rcu-stall for the test "47: Event times".
> # ./perf test -v 47
> 47: Event times                                :
> --- start ---
> test child forked, pid 2774
> attaching to spawned child, enable on exec
>      OK    : ena 2243000, run 2243000
> attaching to current thread as enabled
>      OK    : ena 19000, run 19000
> attaching to current thread as disabled
>      OK    : ena 5000, run 5000
> attaching to CPU 0 as enabled
> [ 1001.466578] INFO: rcu_sched self-detected stall on CPU
> [ 1001.470947]  4-....: (29999 ticks this GP) idle=5fa/140000000000001/0
> softirq=19762/19762 fqs=14602
> [ 1001.480053]   (t=30001 jiffies g=3471 c=3470 q=125)
> [ 1001.484917] Task dump for CPU 4:
> [ 1001.488129] perf            R  running task        0  2774   2773
> 0x00000008
> [ 1001.495161] Call Trace:
> [ 1001.497606] [<000000006a3d4f87>] walk_stackframe+0x0/0xc0
> [ 1001.502980] [<000000004b4b0780>] show_stack+0x3c/0x46
> [ 1001.508024] [<0000000060c96ab8>] sched_show_task+0xd0/0x122
> [ 1001.513573] [<000000007d8bd54e>] dump_cpu_task+0x50/0x5a
> [ 1001.518870] [<0000000053990e11>] rcu_dump_cpu_stacks+0x98/0xd2
> [ 1001.524685] [<00000000fe94c593>] rcu_check_callbacks+0x614/0x822
> [ 1001.530680] [<0000000057688dd3>] update_process_times+0x38/0x6a
> [ 1001.536585] [<0000000063a96de0>] tick_periodic+0x58/0xd8
> [ 1001.541876] [<0000000013d712f1>] tick_handle_periodic+0x2e/0x7c
> [ 1001.547780] [<000000009e2ef428>] riscv_timer_interrupt+0x34/0x3c
> [ 1001.553774] [<00000000ff6b1f18>] riscv_intc_irq+0xbc/0xe0
> [ 1001.559153] [<00000000c8614c3b>] ret_from_exception+0x0/0xc
> 
> It is quite possible that we don't support some dependency
> infrastructure. I am looking into it.
> 
> Regards,
> Atish
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 

Got it working. The test tries to attach the event to CPU0 which doesn't 
exist in HighFive Unleashed. Changing it to cpu1 works.

diff --git a/tools/perf/tests/event-times.c b/tools/perf/tests/event-times.c
index 1a2686f..eb11632f 100644
--- a/tools/perf/tests/event-times.c
+++ b/tools/perf/tests/event-times.c
@@ -113,9 +113,9 @@ static int attach__cpu_disabled(struct perf_evlist 
*evlist)
         struct cpu_map *cpus;
         int err;

-       pr_debug("attaching to CPU 0 as enabled\n");
+       pr_debug("attaching to CPU 1 as disabled\n");

-       cpus = cpu_map__new("0");
+       cpus = cpu_map__new("1");
         if (cpus == NULL) {
                 pr_debug("failed to call cpu_map__new\n");
                 return -1;
@@ -142,9 +142,9 @@ static int attach__cpu_enabled(struct perf_evlist 
*evlist)
         struct cpu_map *cpus;
         int err;

-       pr_debug("attaching to CPU 0 as enabled\n");
+       pr_debug("attaching to CPU 1 as enabled\n");

-       cpus = cpu_map__new("0");
+       cpus = cpu_map__new("1");
         if (cpus == NULL) {
                 pr_debug("failed to call cpu_map__new\n");
                 return -1;


Palmer,
Would it be better to officially document it somewhere that CPU0 doesn't 
exist in the HighFive Unleashed board ?
I fear that there will be other standard tests/code path that may fail 
because of inherent assumption of cpu0 presence.


Regards,
Atish