[PATCH v2] perf vendor events amd: Fix large metrics

From: Sandipan Das
Date: Thu Jul 06 2023 - 02:35:01 EST


There are cases where a metric requires more events than the number of
available counters. E.g. AMD Zen, Zen 2 and Zen 3 processors have four
data fabric counters but the "nps1_die_to_dram" metric has eight events.
By default, the constituent events are placed in a group and since the
events cannot be scheduled at the same time, the metric is not computed.
The "all metrics" test also fails because of this.

Use the NO_GROUP_EVENTS constraint for such metrics which anyway expect
the user to run perf with "--metric-no-group".

E.g.

$ sudo perf test -v 101

Before:

101: perf all metrics test :
--- start ---
test child forked, pid 37131
Testing branch_misprediction_ratio
Testing all_remote_links_outbound
Testing nps1_die_to_dram
Metric 'nps1_die_to_dram' not printed in:
Error:
Invalid event (dram_channel_data_controller_4) in per-thread mode, enable system wide with '-a'.
Testing macro_ops_dispatched
Testing all_l2_cache_accesses
Testing all_l2_cache_hits
Testing all_l2_cache_misses
Testing ic_fetch_miss_ratio
Testing l2_cache_accesses_from_l2_hwpf
Testing l2_cache_misses_from_l2_hwpf
Testing op_cache_fetch_miss_ratio
Testing l3_read_miss_latency
Testing l1_itlb_misses
test child finished with -1
---- end ----
perf all metrics test: FAILED!

After:

101: perf all metrics test :
--- start ---
test child forked, pid 43766
Testing branch_misprediction_ratio
Testing all_remote_links_outbound
Testing nps1_die_to_dram
Testing macro_ops_dispatched
Testing all_l2_cache_accesses
Testing all_l2_cache_hits
Testing all_l2_cache_misses
Testing ic_fetch_miss_ratio
Testing l2_cache_accesses_from_l2_hwpf
Testing l2_cache_misses_from_l2_hwpf
Testing op_cache_fetch_miss_ratio
Testing l3_read_miss_latency
Testing l1_itlb_misses
test child finished with 0
---- end ----
perf all metrics test: Ok

Reported-by: Ayush Jain <ayush.jain3@xxxxxxx>
Suggested-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sandipan Das <sandipan.das@xxxxxxx>
---

Previous versions can be found at:
v1: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20230614090710.680330-1-sandipan.das@xxxxxxx/

Changes in v2:
- As suggested by Ian, use the NO_GROUP_EVENTS constraint instead of
retrying the test scenario with --metric-no-group.
- Change the commit message accordingly.

tools/perf/pmu-events/arch/x86/amdzen1/recommended.json | 3 ++-
tools/perf/pmu-events/arch/x86/amdzen2/recommended.json | 3 ++-
tools/perf/pmu-events/arch/x86/amdzen3/recommended.json | 3 ++-
3 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tools/perf/pmu-events/arch/x86/amdzen1/recommended.json b/tools/perf/pmu-events/arch/x86/amdzen1/recommended.json
index bf5083c1c260..4d28177325a0 100644
--- a/tools/perf/pmu-events/arch/x86/amdzen1/recommended.json
+++ b/tools/perf/pmu-events/arch/x86/amdzen1/recommended.json
@@ -169,8 +169,9 @@
},
{
"MetricName": "nps1_die_to_dram",
- "BriefDescription": "Approximate: Combined DRAM B/bytes of all channels on a NPS1 node (die) (may need --metric-no-group)",
+ "BriefDescription": "Approximate: Combined DRAM B/bytes of all channels on a NPS1 node (die)",
"MetricExpr": "dram_channel_data_controller_0 + dram_channel_data_controller_1 + dram_channel_data_controller_2 + dram_channel_data_controller_3 + dram_channel_data_controller_4 + dram_channel_data_controller_5 + dram_channel_data_controller_6 + dram_channel_data_controller_7",
+ "MetricConstraint": "NO_GROUP_EVENTS",
"MetricGroup": "data_fabric",
"PerPkg": "1",
"ScaleUnit": "6.1e-5MiB"
diff --git a/tools/perf/pmu-events/arch/x86/amdzen2/recommended.json b/tools/perf/pmu-events/arch/x86/amdzen2/recommended.json
index a71694a043ba..60e19456d4c8 100644
--- a/tools/perf/pmu-events/arch/x86/amdzen2/recommended.json
+++ b/tools/perf/pmu-events/arch/x86/amdzen2/recommended.json
@@ -169,8 +169,9 @@
},
{
"MetricName": "nps1_die_to_dram",
- "BriefDescription": "Approximate: Combined DRAM B/bytes of all channels on a NPS1 node (die) (may need --metric-no-group)",
+ "BriefDescription": "Approximate: Combined DRAM B/bytes of all channels on a NPS1 node (die)",
"MetricExpr": "dram_channel_data_controller_0 + dram_channel_data_controller_1 + dram_channel_data_controller_2 + dram_channel_data_controller_3 + dram_channel_data_controller_4 + dram_channel_data_controller_5 + dram_channel_data_controller_6 + dram_channel_data_controller_7",
+ "MetricConstraint": "NO_GROUP_EVENTS",
"MetricGroup": "data_fabric",
"PerPkg": "1",
"ScaleUnit": "6.1e-5MiB"
diff --git a/tools/perf/pmu-events/arch/x86/amdzen3/recommended.json b/tools/perf/pmu-events/arch/x86/amdzen3/recommended.json
index 988cf68ae825..3e9e1781812e 100644
--- a/tools/perf/pmu-events/arch/x86/amdzen3/recommended.json
+++ b/tools/perf/pmu-events/arch/x86/amdzen3/recommended.json
@@ -205,10 +205,11 @@
},
{
"MetricName": "nps1_die_to_dram",
- "BriefDescription": "Approximate: Combined DRAM B/bytes of all channels on a NPS1 node (die) (may need --metric-no-group)",
+ "BriefDescription": "Approximate: Combined DRAM B/bytes of all channels on a NPS1 node (die)",
"MetricExpr": "dram_channel_data_controller_0 + dram_channel_data_controller_1 + dram_channel_data_controller_2 + dram_channel_data_controller_3 + dram_channel_data_controller_4 + dram_channel_data_controller_5 + dram_channel_data_controller_6 + dram_channel_data_controller_7",
"MetricGroup": "data_fabric",
"PerPkg": "1",
+ "MetricConstraint": "NO_GROUP_EVENTS",
"ScaleUnit": "6.1e-5MiB"
}
]
--
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