Re: [PATCH 2/8] perf evsel: Fix the annotation for hardware events on hybrid

From: Liang, Kan
Date: Tue Jun 13 2023 - 16:07:13 EST




On 2023-06-13 3:35 p.m., Ian Rogers wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 7, 2023 at 9:27 AM <kan.liang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> From: Kan Liang <kan.liang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>
>> The annotation for hardware events is wrong on hybrid. For example,
>>
>> # ./perf stat -a sleep 1
>>
>> Performance counter stats for 'system wide':
>>
>> 32,148.85 msec cpu-clock # 32.000 CPUs utilized
>> 374 context-switches # 11.633 /sec
>> 33 cpu-migrations # 1.026 /sec
>> 295 page-faults # 9.176 /sec
>> 18,979,960 cpu_core/cycles/ # 590.378 K/sec
>> 261,230,783 cpu_atom/cycles/ # 8.126 M/sec (54.21%)
>> 17,019,732 cpu_core/instructions/ # 529.404 K/sec
>> 38,020,470 cpu_atom/instructions/ # 1.183 M/sec (63.36%)
>> 3,296,743 cpu_core/branches/ # 102.546 K/sec
>> 6,692,338 cpu_atom/branches/ # 208.167 K/sec (63.40%)
>> 96,421 cpu_core/branch-misses/ # 2.999 K/sec
>> 1,016,336 cpu_atom/branch-misses/ # 31.613 K/sec (63.38%)
>>
>> The hardware events have extended type on hybrid, but the evsel__match()
>> doesn't take it into account.
>>
>> Add a mask to filter the extended type on hybrid when checking the config.
>>
>> With the patch,
>>
>> # ./perf stat -a sleep 1
>>
>> Performance counter stats for 'system wide':
>>
>> 32,139.90 msec cpu-clock # 32.003 CPUs utilized
>> 343 context-switches # 10.672 /sec
>> 32 cpu-migrations # 0.996 /sec
>> 73 page-faults # 2.271 /sec
>> 13,712,841 cpu_core/cycles/ # 0.000 GHz
>> 258,301,691 cpu_atom/cycles/ # 0.008 GHz (54.20%)
>> 12,428,163 cpu_core/instructions/ # 0.91 insn per cycle
>> 37,786,557 cpu_atom/instructions/ # 2.76 insn per cycle (63.35%)
>> 2,418,826 cpu_core/branches/ # 75.259 K/sec
>> 6,965,962 cpu_atom/branches/ # 216.739 K/sec (63.38%)
>> 72,150 cpu_core/branch-misses/ # 2.98% of all branches
>> 1,032,746 cpu_atom/branch-misses/ # 42.70% of all branches (63.35%)
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Kan Liang <kan.liang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> ---
>> tools/perf/util/evsel.h | 12 ++++++-----
>> tools/perf/util/stat-shadow.c | 39 +++++++++++++++++++----------------
>> 2 files changed, 28 insertions(+), 23 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/tools/perf/util/evsel.h b/tools/perf/util/evsel.h
>> index b365b449c6ea..36a32e4ca168 100644
>> --- a/tools/perf/util/evsel.h
>> +++ b/tools/perf/util/evsel.h
>> @@ -350,9 +350,11 @@ u64 format_field__intval(struct tep_format_field *field, struct perf_sample *sam
>>
>> struct tep_format_field *evsel__field(struct evsel *evsel, const char *name);
>>
>> -#define evsel__match(evsel, t, c) \
>> +#define EVSEL_EVENT_MASK (~0ULL)
>> +
>> +#define evsel__match(evsel, t, c, m) \
>> (evsel->core.attr.type == PERF_TYPE_##t && \
>> - evsel->core.attr.config == PERF_COUNT_##c)
>> + (evsel->core.attr.config & m) == PERF_COUNT_##c)
>
> The EVSEL_EVENT_MASK here isn't very intention revealing, perhaps we
> can remove it and do something like:
>
> static inline bool __evsel__match(const struct evsel *evsel, u32 type,
> u64 config)
> {
> if ((type == PERF_TYPE_HARDWARE || type ==PERF_TYPE_HW_CACHE) &&
> perf_pmus__supports_extended_type())
> return (evsel->core.attr.config & PERF_HW_EVENT_MASK) == config;
>
> return evsel->core.attr.config == config;
> }
> #define evsel__match(evsel, t, c) __evsel__match(evsel, PERF_TYPE_##t,
> PERF_COUNT_##c)

Yes, the above code looks better. I will apply it in V2.

Thanks,
Kan
>
> Thanks,
> Ian
>
>>
>> static inline bool evsel__match2(struct evsel *e1, struct evsel *e2)
>> {
>> @@ -438,13 +440,13 @@ bool evsel__is_function_event(struct evsel *evsel);
>>
>> static inline bool evsel__is_bpf_output(struct evsel *evsel)
>> {
>> - return evsel__match(evsel, SOFTWARE, SW_BPF_OUTPUT);
>> + return evsel__match(evsel, SOFTWARE, SW_BPF_OUTPUT, EVSEL_EVENT_MASK);
>> }
>>
>> static inline bool evsel__is_clock(const struct evsel *evsel)
>> {
>> - return evsel__match(evsel, SOFTWARE, SW_CPU_CLOCK) ||
>> - evsel__match(evsel, SOFTWARE, SW_TASK_CLOCK);
>> + return evsel__match(evsel, SOFTWARE, SW_CPU_CLOCK, EVSEL_EVENT_MASK) ||
>> + evsel__match(evsel, SOFTWARE, SW_TASK_CLOCK, EVSEL_EVENT_MASK);
>> }
>>
>> bool evsel__fallback(struct evsel *evsel, int err, char *msg, size_t msgsize);
>> diff --git a/tools/perf/util/stat-shadow.c b/tools/perf/util/stat-shadow.c
>> index 1566a206ba42..074f38b57e2d 100644
>> --- a/tools/perf/util/stat-shadow.c
>> +++ b/tools/perf/util/stat-shadow.c
>> @@ -6,6 +6,7 @@
>> #include "color.h"
>> #include "debug.h"
>> #include "pmu.h"
>> +#include "pmus.h"
>> #include "rblist.h"
>> #include "evlist.h"
>> #include "expr.h"
>> @@ -78,6 +79,8 @@ void perf_stat__reset_shadow_stats(void)
>>
>> static enum stat_type evsel__stat_type(const struct evsel *evsel)
>> {
>> + u64 mask = perf_pmus__supports_extended_type() ? PERF_HW_EVENT_MASK : EVSEL_EVENT_MASK;
>> +
>> /* Fake perf_hw_cache_op_id values for use with evsel__match. */
>> u64 PERF_COUNT_hw_cache_l1d_miss = PERF_COUNT_HW_CACHE_L1D |
>> ((PERF_COUNT_HW_CACHE_OP_READ) << 8) |
>> @@ -97,41 +100,41 @@ static enum stat_type evsel__stat_type(const struct evsel *evsel)
>>
>> if (evsel__is_clock(evsel))
>> return STAT_NSECS;
>> - else if (evsel__match(evsel, HARDWARE, HW_CPU_CYCLES))
>> + else if (evsel__match(evsel, HARDWARE, HW_CPU_CYCLES, mask))
>> return STAT_CYCLES;
>> - else if (evsel__match(evsel, HARDWARE, HW_INSTRUCTIONS))
>> + else if (evsel__match(evsel, HARDWARE, HW_INSTRUCTIONS, mask))
>> return STAT_INSTRUCTIONS;
>> - else if (evsel__match(evsel, HARDWARE, HW_STALLED_CYCLES_FRONTEND))
>> + else if (evsel__match(evsel, HARDWARE, HW_STALLED_CYCLES_FRONTEND, mask))
>> return STAT_STALLED_CYCLES_FRONT;
>> - else if (evsel__match(evsel, HARDWARE, HW_STALLED_CYCLES_BACKEND))
>> + else if (evsel__match(evsel, HARDWARE, HW_STALLED_CYCLES_BACKEND, mask))
>> return STAT_STALLED_CYCLES_BACK;
>> - else if (evsel__match(evsel, HARDWARE, HW_BRANCH_INSTRUCTIONS))
>> + else if (evsel__match(evsel, HARDWARE, HW_BRANCH_INSTRUCTIONS, mask))
>> return STAT_BRANCHES;
>> - else if (evsel__match(evsel, HARDWARE, HW_BRANCH_MISSES))
>> + else if (evsel__match(evsel, HARDWARE, HW_BRANCH_MISSES, mask))
>> return STAT_BRANCH_MISS;
>> - else if (evsel__match(evsel, HARDWARE, HW_CACHE_REFERENCES))
>> + else if (evsel__match(evsel, HARDWARE, HW_CACHE_REFERENCES, mask))
>> return STAT_CACHE_REFS;
>> - else if (evsel__match(evsel, HARDWARE, HW_CACHE_MISSES))
>> + else if (evsel__match(evsel, HARDWARE, HW_CACHE_MISSES, mask))
>> return STAT_CACHE_MISSES;
>> - else if (evsel__match(evsel, HW_CACHE, HW_CACHE_L1D))
>> + else if (evsel__match(evsel, HW_CACHE, HW_CACHE_L1D, mask))
>> return STAT_L1_DCACHE;
>> - else if (evsel__match(evsel, HW_CACHE, HW_CACHE_L1I))
>> + else if (evsel__match(evsel, HW_CACHE, HW_CACHE_L1I, mask))
>> return STAT_L1_ICACHE;
>> - else if (evsel__match(evsel, HW_CACHE, HW_CACHE_LL))
>> + else if (evsel__match(evsel, HW_CACHE, HW_CACHE_LL, mask))
>> return STAT_LL_CACHE;
>> - else if (evsel__match(evsel, HW_CACHE, HW_CACHE_DTLB))
>> + else if (evsel__match(evsel, HW_CACHE, HW_CACHE_DTLB, mask))
>> return STAT_DTLB_CACHE;
>> - else if (evsel__match(evsel, HW_CACHE, HW_CACHE_ITLB))
>> + else if (evsel__match(evsel, HW_CACHE, HW_CACHE_ITLB, mask))
>> return STAT_ITLB_CACHE;
>> - else if (evsel__match(evsel, HW_CACHE, hw_cache_l1d_miss))
>> + else if (evsel__match(evsel, HW_CACHE, hw_cache_l1d_miss, mask))
>> return STAT_L1D_MISS;
>> - else if (evsel__match(evsel, HW_CACHE, hw_cache_l1i_miss))
>> + else if (evsel__match(evsel, HW_CACHE, hw_cache_l1i_miss, mask))
>> return STAT_L1I_MISS;
>> - else if (evsel__match(evsel, HW_CACHE, hw_cache_ll_miss))
>> + else if (evsel__match(evsel, HW_CACHE, hw_cache_ll_miss, mask))
>> return STAT_LL_MISS;
>> - else if (evsel__match(evsel, HW_CACHE, hw_cache_dtlb_miss))
>> + else if (evsel__match(evsel, HW_CACHE, hw_cache_dtlb_miss, mask))
>> return STAT_DTLB_MISS;
>> - else if (evsel__match(evsel, HW_CACHE, hw_cache_itlb_miss))
>> + else if (evsel__match(evsel, HW_CACHE, hw_cache_itlb_miss, mask))
>> return STAT_ITLB_MISS;
>> return STAT_NONE;
>> }
>> --
>> 2.35.1
>>