Intel now provides comprehensive tables for all performance counters
and the various valid configuration permutations as text .json files.
Libpmc has been converted to use these and hwpmc_core has been greatly
simplified by moving to passthrough of the table values.
The one gotcha is that said tables don't support pentium pro and and pentium
IV. There's very few users of hwpmc on _amd64_ kernels on new hardware. It is
unlikely that anyone is doing low level optimization on 15 year old Intel
hardware. Nonetheless, if someone feels strongly enough to populate the
corresponding tables for p4 and ppro I will reinstate the files in to the
build.
Code for the K8 counters and !x86 architectures remains unchanged.
Mainly focus on files that use BSD 2-Clause license, however the tool I
was using misidentified many licenses so this was mostly a manual - error
prone - task.
The Software Package Data Exchange (SPDX) group provides a specification
to make it easier for automated tools to detect and summarize well known
opensource licenses. We are gradually adopting the specification, noting
that the tags are considered only advisory and do not, in any way,
superceed or replace the license texts.
tested on the Broadwell-Xeon with a hacked up version of pmcstudy -T. I still need
to circle back and add in to pmcstudy all the new tests from the Broadwell Vtune
guide (for the hacked up version I just made it so I could run the -T option). The
Skylake CPU is not yet available (even though Intel is advertising it .. imagine that).
The Skylake PMC's will need to be tested once we can get a sample skylake CPU :-)
Sponsored by: Netflix Inc.
according to the Cortex-A8 TRM r3p2 section 3.2.49.
The A8 list differs from the "ARM-v7 common" list, given the A8
was an earlier model.
There is still more work to be done for other Cortex-Ax version as
andrew points out, but I am just trying to fix A8 for now for teaching.
MFC after: 2 weeks
Sponsored by: DARPA/AFRL
Obtained from: Cambridge/L41
Reviewed by: andrew
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D3876
This supports e500v1, e500v2, and e500mc. Tested only on e500v2, but the
performance counters are identical across all, with e500mc having some
additional events.
Relnotes: Yes
These are similar to the mips24k performance counters - some are
available on perfcnt0/3, some are available on perfcnt1/4.
However, the events aren't all the same.
* Add the events, named the same as from Linux oprofile.
* Verify they're the same as "MIPS32(R) 74KTM Processor Core Family
Software User's Manual"; Document Number: MD00519; Revision 01.05.
* Rename INSTRUCTIONS to something else, so it doesn't clash with
the alias INSTRUCTIONS. I'll try to tidy this up later; there
are a few other aliases to add and shuffle around.
Tested:
* QCA9558 SoC (AP135 board) - MIPS74Kc core (no FPU.)
* make universe; where it didn't fail for other reasons.
TODO:
* It'd be nice to support the four performance counters
in at least this hardware, rather than just two.
Reviewed by: bsdimp ("looks good; don't break world".)
The MEM_UOPS_RETIRED actually work the same way as the Sandy
Bridge counters, but the counters were documented in a different
way and that seemed to cause the Ivy Bridge counters to be
implemented incorrectly. Use the same counter definitions as
Sandy Bridge. While I'm here, rename the counters to match
what's documented in the datasheet.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D1590
MFC after: 1 month
Sponsored by: Sandvine Inc.
On Sandy Bridge and later, to count branch-related events you
have to or together a mask indicating the type of branch
instruction to count (e.g. direct jump, branch, etc) and a bits
indicating whether to count taken and not-taken branches. The
current counter definitions where defining this bits individually,
so the counters never worked and always just counted 0.
Fix the counter definitions to instead contain the proper
combination of masks. Also update the man pages to reflect the
new counters.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D1587
MFC after: 1 month
Sponsored by: Sandvine Inc.
go back through HASWELL, IVY_BRIDGE, IVY_BRIDGE_XEON and SANDY_BRIDGE
to straighten out all the missing PMCs. We also add a new pmc tool
pmcstudy, this allows one to run the various formulas from
the documents "Using Intel Vtune Amplifier XE on XXX Generation platforms" for
IB/SB and Haswell. The tool also allows one to postulate your own
formulas with any of the various PMC's. At some point I will enahance
this to work with Brendan Gregg's flame-graphs so we can flamegraph
various PMC interactions. Note the manual page also needs some
work (lots of work) but gnn has committed to help me with that ;-)
Reviewed by: gnn
MFC after:1 month
Sponsored by: Netflix Inc.
This also fixes asserts on removal of the module for the mpc74xx.
The PowerPC 970 processors have two different types of events: direct events
and indirect events. Thus far only direct events are supported. I included
some documentation in the driver on how indirect events work, but support is
for the future.
MFC after: 1 month
The SDM (June 2013) tables on these are rather confusing. Yes, they
assign the same name (BR_MISP_RETIRED.ALL_BRANCHES) to two codes
(C5H/00H and C5H/04H.) The latter however is the PEBS version.
So, to make it easier to see the difference - and yes, we can use
both without having to actually enable the PEBS specific bits! -
just rename the PEBS one to _PS so there's no clashing.
Tested:
* Sandy bridge
bridge Xeon.
Summary: These are PEBS events but they're also available as normal
counter/sample events. The source table (Table 19-2) lists the
base versions (LOAD, STLB_MISS, SPLIT, ALL) but it says they must
be qualified with other values. This particular commit fleshes
out those umask values.
Source:
* Linux; SDM June 2013, Volume 3B, Table 19-2 and 18-21.
Tested:
* Sandy Bridge (non-Xeon)
* Add in MEM_LOAD_UOPS_LLC_HIT_RETIRED for both sandy bridge and sandy
bridge Xeon. Right now it only is enabled for Sandy Bridge.
* D2/0F is actually a combination rather than a separate counter, so
just flip that on for the CPU types that support it.
There's an errata for using this on SB Xeon hardware - I've documented
it in kern/181346.
Tested:
* Sandy Bridge
* Sandy Bridge Xeon
Sponsored by: Netflix, Inc.
those of some non-architectural core events. This is not a problem in the
general case as long as there's an 1:1 mapping between the two, but there
are few exceptions. For example, 3CH_01H on Nehalem/Westmere represents
both unhalted-reference-cycles and CPU_CLK_UNHALTED.REF_P.
CPU_CLK_UNHALTED.REF_P on the aforementioned architectures does not measure
reference (i.e. bus) but TSC, so there's the need to disambiguate.
In order to avoid the namespace collision rename all the architectural
events in a way they cannot be ambigous and refactor the architectural
events handling function to reflect this change.
While here, per Jim Harris request, rename
iap_architectural_event_is_unsupported() to iap_event_is_architectural().
Discussed with: jimharris
Reviewed by: jimharris, gnn
0x3C: /* Per Intel document 325462-045US 01/2013. */
Add manpage to document all the goodness that is available in this
processor model.
Submitted by: hiren panchasara <hiren.panchasara@gmail.com>
Reviewed by: jimharris, sbruno
Obtained from: Yahoo! Inc.
MFC after: 2 weeks
case 0x3E: /* Per Intel document 325462-045US 01/2013. */
Add manpage to document all the goodness that is available in this
processor model.
No support for uncore events at this time.
Submitted by: hiren panchasara <hiren.panchasara@gmail.com>
Reviewed by: davide, jimharris, sbruno
Obtained from: Yahoo! Inc.
MFC after: 2 weeks
(Model 0x2D /* Per Intel document 253669-044US 08/2012. */)
Add manpage to document all the goodness that is available in this
processor model.
No support for uncore events at this time.
Submitted by: hiren panchasara <hiren.panchasara@gmail.com>
Reviewed by: jimharris@ fabient@
Obtained from: Yahoo! Inc.
MFC after: 2 weeks
New kernel events can be added at various location for sampling or counting.
This will for example allow easy system profiling whatever the processor is
with known tools like pmcstat(8).
Simultaneous usage of software PMC and hardware PMC is possible, for example
looking at the lock acquire failure, page fault while sampling on
instructions.
Sponsored by: NETASQ
MFC after: 1 month
domain clock, 8 programmable PMC.
- Westmere based CPU (Xeon 5600, Corei7 980X) support.
- New man pages with events list for core and uncore.
- Updated Corei7 events with Intel 253669-033US December 2009 doc.
There is some removed events in the documentation, they have been
kept in the code but documented in the man page as obsolete.
- Offcore response events can be setup with rsp token.
Sponsored by: NETASQ
This brings hwpmc(4) support for 2nd and 3rd generation XScale cores.
Right now it's enabled by default to make sure we test this a bit.
When the time comes it can be disabled by default.
Tested on Gateworks boards.
A man page is coming.
Obtained from: //depot/user/rpaulo/xscalepmc/...
out of the original commit of i7 support. These are all the counters
on pages A-32 and A-33 of the _Intel(R) 64 and IA32 Architectures
Software Developer's Manual Vol 3B_, June 2009. Almost all
of these counters relate to operations on the L2 cache.
Reviewed by: jkoshy
MFC after: 1 month
