[PATCH v3 1/2] perf jevents: Add collection of topdown like metrics for arm64

From: Ian Rogers
Date: Thu Mar 14 2024 - 01:58:31 EST


Metrics are created using legacy, common and recommended events. As
events may be missing a TryEvent function will give None if an event
is missing. To workaround missing JSON events for cortex-a53, sysfs
encodings are used.

Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
tools/perf/pmu-events/arm64_metrics.py | 145 ++++++++++++++++++++++++-
1 file changed, 142 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tools/perf/pmu-events/arm64_metrics.py b/tools/perf/pmu-events/arm64_metrics.py
index c9aa2d827a82..53615ffa8d96 100755
--- a/tools/perf/pmu-events/arm64_metrics.py
+++ b/tools/perf/pmu-events/arm64_metrics.py
@@ -1,14 +1,151 @@
#!/usr/bin/env python3
# SPDX-License-Identifier: (LGPL-2.1 OR BSD-2-Clause)
-from metric import (JsonEncodeMetric, JsonEncodeMetricGroupDescriptions, LoadEvents,
- MetricGroup)
+from metric import (d_ratio, Event, JsonEncodeMetric, JsonEncodeMetricGroupDescriptions,
+ LoadEvents, Metric, MetricGroup)
import argparse
import json
import os
+from typing import Optional

# Global command line arguments.
_args = None

+def Arm64Topdown() -> MetricGroup:
+ """Returns a MetricGroup representing ARM64 topdown like metrics."""
+ def TryEvent(name: str) -> Optional[Event]:
+ # Skip an event if not in the json files.
+ try:
+ return Event(name)
+ except:
+ return None
+ # ARM models like a53 lack JSON for INST_RETIRED but have the
+ # architetural standard event in sysfs. Use the PMU name to identify
+ # the sysfs event.
+ pmu_name = f'armv8_{_args.model.replace("-", "_")}'
+ ins = Event("instructions")
+ ins_ret = Event("INST_RETIRED", f"{pmu_name}/inst_retired/")
+ cycles = Event("cycles")
+ stall_fe = TryEvent("STALL_FRONTEND")
+ stall_be = TryEvent("STALL_BACKEND")
+ br_ret = TryEvent("BR_RETIRED")
+ br_mp_ret = TryEvent("BR_MIS_PRED_RETIRED")
+ dtlb_walk = TryEvent("DTLB_WALK")
+ itlb_walk = TryEvent("ITLB_WALK")
+ l1d_tlb = TryEvent("L1D_TLB")
+ l1i_tlb = TryEvent("L1I_TLB")
+ l1d_refill = Event("L1D_CACHE_REFILL", f"{pmu_name}/l1d_cache_refill/")
+ l2d_refill = Event("L2D_CACHE_REFILL", f"{pmu_name}/l2d_cache_refill/")
+ l1i_refill = Event("L1I_CACHE_REFILL", f"{pmu_name}/l1i_cache_refill/")
+ l1d_access = Event("L1D_CACHE", f"{pmu_name}/l1d_cache/")
+ l2d_access = Event("L2D_CACHE", f"{pmu_name}/l2d_cache/")
+ llc_access = TryEvent("LL_CACHE_RD")
+ l1i_access = Event("L1I_CACHE", f"{pmu_name}/l1i_cache/")
+ llc_miss_rd = TryEvent("LL_CACHE_MISS_RD")
+ ase_spec = TryEvent("ASE_SPEC")
+ ld_spec = TryEvent("LD_SPEC")
+ st_spec = TryEvent("ST_SPEC")
+ vfp_spec = TryEvent("VFP_SPEC")
+ dp_spec = TryEvent("DP_SPEC")
+ br_immed_spec = TryEvent("BR_IMMED_SPEC")
+ br_indirect_spec = TryEvent("BR_INDIRECT_SPEC")
+ br_ret_spec = TryEvent("BR_RETURN_SPEC")
+ crypto_spec = TryEvent("CRYPTO_SPEC")
+ inst_spec = TryEvent("INST_SPEC")
+
+ return MetricGroup("topdown", [
+ MetricGroup("topdown_tl", [
+ Metric("topdown_tl_ipc", "Instructions per cycle", d_ratio(
+ ins, cycles), "insn/cycle"),
+ Metric("topdown_tl_stall_fe_rate", "Frontend stalls to all cycles",
+ d_ratio(stall_fe, cycles), "100%") if stall_fe else None,
+ Metric("topdown_tl_stall_be_rate", "Backend stalls to all cycles",
+ d_ratio(stall_be, cycles), "100%") if stall_be else None,
+ ]),
+ MetricGroup("topdown_fe_bound", [
+ MetricGroup("topdown_fe_br", [
+ Metric("topdown_fe_br_mp_per_insn",
+ "Branch mispredicts per instruction retired",
+ d_ratio(br_mp_ret, ins_ret), "br/insn") if br_mp_ret else None,
+ Metric("topdown_fe_br_ins_rate",
+ "Branches per instruction retired", d_ratio(
+ br_ret, ins_ret), "100%") if br_ret else None,
+ Metric("topdown_fe_br_mispredict",
+ "Branch mispredicts per branch instruction",
+ d_ratio(br_mp_ret, br_ret), "100%") if br_mp_ret else None,
+ ]),
+ MetricGroup("topdown_fe_itlb", [
+ Metric("topdown_fe_itlb_walks", "Itlb walks per insn",
+ d_ratio(itlb_walk, ins_ret), "walk/insn"),
+ Metric("topdown_fe_itlb_walk_rate", "Itlb walks per l1i access",
+ d_ratio(itlb_walk, l1i_tlb), "100%"),
+ ]) if itlb_walk else None,
+ MetricGroup("topdown_fe_icache", [
+ Metric("topdown_fe_icache_l1i_per_insn",
+ "L1I cache refills per instruction",
+ d_ratio(l1i_refill, ins_ret), "l1i/insn"),
+ Metric("topdown_fe_icache_l1i_miss_rate",
+ "L1I cache refills per L1I cache access",
+ d_ratio(l1i_refill, l1i_access), "100%"),
+ ]),
+ ]),
+ MetricGroup("topdown_be_bound", [
+ MetricGroup("topdown_be_dtlb", [
+ Metric("topdown_be_dtlb_walks", "Dtlb walks per instruction",
+ d_ratio(dtlb_walk, ins_ret), "walk/insn"),
+ Metric("topdown_be_dtlb_walk_rate", "Dtlb walks per l1d access",
+ d_ratio(dtlb_walk, l1d_tlb), "100%"),
+ ]) if dtlb_walk else None,
+ MetricGroup("topdown_be_mix", [
+ Metric("topdown_be_mix_ld", "Percentage of load instructions",
+ d_ratio(ld_spec, inst_spec), "100%") if ld_spec else None,
+ Metric("topdown_be_mix_st", "Percentage of store instructions",
+ d_ratio(st_spec, inst_spec), "100%") if st_spec else None,
+ Metric("topdown_be_mix_simd", "Percentage of SIMD instructions",
+ d_ratio(ase_spec, inst_spec), "100%") if ase_spec else None,
+ Metric("topdown_be_mix_fp",
+ "Percentage of floating point instructions",
+ d_ratio(vfp_spec, inst_spec), "100%") if vfp_spec else None,
+ Metric("topdown_be_mix_dp",
+ "Percentage of data processing instructions",
+ d_ratio(dp_spec, inst_spec), "100%") if dp_spec else None,
+ Metric("topdown_be_mix_crypto",
+ "Percentage of data processing instructions",
+ d_ratio(crypto_spec, inst_spec), "100%") if crypto_spec else None,
+ Metric(
+ "topdown_be_mix_br", "Percentage of branch instructions",
+ d_ratio(br_immed_spec + br_indirect_spec + br_ret_spec,
+ inst_spec), "100%") if br_immed_spec and br_indirect_spec and br_ret_spec else None,
+ ]) if inst_spec else None,
+ MetricGroup("topdown_be_dcache", [
+ MetricGroup("topdown_be_dcache_l1", [
+ Metric("topdown_be_dcache_l1_per_insn",
+ "L1D cache refills per instruction",
+ d_ratio(l1d_refill, ins_ret), "refills/insn"),
+ Metric("topdown_be_dcache_l1_miss_rate",
+ "L1D cache refills per L1D cache access",
+ d_ratio(l1d_refill, l1d_access), "100%")
+ ]),
+ MetricGroup("topdown_be_dcache_l2", [
+ Metric("topdown_be_dcache_l2_per_insn",
+ "L2D cache refills per instruction",
+ d_ratio(l2d_refill, ins_ret), "refills/insn"),
+ Metric("topdown_be_dcache_l2_miss_rate",
+ "L2D cache refills per L2D cache access",
+ d_ratio(l2d_refill, l2d_access), "100%")
+ ]),
+ MetricGroup("topdown_be_dcache_llc", [
+ Metric("topdown_be_dcache_llc_per_insn",
+ "Last level cache misses per instruction",
+ d_ratio(llc_miss_rd, ins_ret), "miss/insn"),
+ Metric("topdown_be_dcache_llc_miss_rate",
+ "Last level cache misses per L2D cache access",
+ d_ratio(llc_miss_rd, llc_access), "100%")
+ ]) if llc_miss_rd and llc_access else None,
+ ]),
+ ]),
+ ])
+
+
def main() -> None:
global _args

@@ -29,7 +166,9 @@ def main() -> None:
)
_args = parser.parse_args()

- all_metrics = MetricGroup("",[])
+ all_metrics = MetricGroup("",[
+ Arm64Topdown(),
+ ])

directory = f"{_args.events_path}/arm64/{_args.vendor}/{_args.model}/"
LoadEvents(directory)
--
2.44.0.278.ge034bb2e1d-goog