Re: [PATCH -tip RESEND] x86: perf_counter fixL1-data-Cache-Store-Referencees for AMD

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Sat Jun 20 2009 - 13:43:51 EST



* Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinder@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Fix AMD's Data Cache Refills from System event.
>
> By this patch :
>
> ./tools/perf/perf stat -e l1d -e l1d-misses -e l1d-write -e l1d-prefetch -e l1d-prefetch-miss -e l1i -e l1i-misses -e l1i-prefetch -e l2 -e l2-misses -e l2-write -e dtlb -e dtlb-misses -e itlb -e itlb-misses -e bpu -e bpu-misses ls /dev/ > /dev/null
>
> Performance counter stats for 'ls /dev/':
>
> 2499484 L1-data-Cache-Load-Referencees (scaled from 3.97%)
> 70347 L1-data-Cache-Load-Misses (scaled from 7.30%)
> 9360 L1-data-Cache-Store-Referencees (scaled from 8.64%)
> 32804 L1-data-Cache-Prefetch-Referencees (scaled from 17.72%)
> 7693 L1-data-Cache-Prefetch-Misses (scaled from 22.97%)
> 2180945 L1-instruction-Cache-Load-Referencees (scaled from 28.48%)
> 14518 L1-instruction-Cache-Load-Misses (scaled from 35.00%)
> 2405 L1-instruction-Cache-Prefetch-Referencees (scaled from 34.89%)
> 71387 L2-Cache-Load-Referencees (scaled from 34.94%)
> 18732 L2-Cache-Load-Misses (scaled from 34.92%)
> 79918 L2-Cache-Store-Referencees (scaled from 36.02%)
> 1295294 Data-TLB-Cache-Load-Referencees (scaled from 35.99%)
> 30896 Data-TLB-Cache-Load-Misses (scaled from 33.36%)
> 1222030 Instruction-TLB-Cache-Load-Referencees (scaled from 29.46%)
> 357 Instruction-TLB-Cache-Load-Misses (scaled from 20.46%)
> 530888 Branch-Cache-Load-Referencees (scaled from 11.48%)
> 8638 Branch-Cache-Load-Misses (scaled from 5.09%)
>
> 0.011295149 seconds time elapsed.
>
> Earlier it always shows value 0.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinderrajput@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_counter.c | 2 +-
> 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_counter.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_counter.c
> index ce1ae3f..37facc5 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_counter.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_counter.c
> @@ -401,7 +401,7 @@ static const u64 amd_hw_cache_event_ids
> [ C(RESULT_MISS) ] = 0x0041, /* Data Cache Misses */
> },
> [ C(OP_WRITE) ] = {
> - [ C(RESULT_ACCESS) ] = 0x0042, /* Data Cache Refills from L2 */
> + [ C(RESULT_ACCESS) ] = 0x0142, /* Data Cache Refills :system */
> [ C(RESULT_MISS) ] = 0,
> },
> [ C(OP_PREFETCH) ] = {

Applied to tip:perfcounters/urgent, thanks Jaswinder!

Ingo
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