[PATCH v2] perf: RISC-V: Check standard event availability
Samuel Holland
samuel.holland at sifive.com
Wed Apr 17 18:46:37 PDT 2024
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);
+
}
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:
--
2.44.0
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