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.
Core i7 and Westmere processors, the uncore PMC subsystem is
completely different from the uncore PMC on smaller versions of CPUs.
Disable existing uncore hwpmc code for EX, otherwise non-existing MSRs
are accessed.
The cores PMCs seems to be identical for non-EX and EX, according to
the SDM.
Reviewed by: davide, fabient
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
MFC after: 2 weeks
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
There is no point in hiding, e.g. pmc.xscale(3) from a developer running
on amd64, when the target arch in question will probably never have
manual pages installed at all.
Reviewed by: sbruno, hiren
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
- Rename pmc.mips to pmc.mips24k since it covers just one CPU,
no whole architecture
- Add documetnations for Octeon's PMC counters
- Remove CAVEATS section from pmc.mips24k page: PMC for MIPS supports
sampling now.
o Wrap sentences on to new lines
o Rewrap lines where possible while trying to keep the diff to a
minimum
Found with: textproc/igor
MFC after: 1 week
X-MFC-With: r232157
Advantages:
- Reduces the number of different license versions in the tree
- Eliminates a typo
- Removes some incorrect author attributions due to c/p
- Removes c/p error potential for future pmc manpages
Approved by: jkoshy, gnn, rpaulo, fabient (copyright holders)
MFC after: 1 week
As the underlying block is 4KB if the PMC throughput is low the measurement
will be reported on the next tick. pmcstat(8) use the modified flush API to
reclaim current buffer before displaying next top.
MFC after: 1 month