[PATCH v2] perf: RISC-V: Check standard event availability
Atish Patra
atishp at rivosinc.com
Fri Apr 26 08:38:16 PDT 2024
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>
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