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Re: [PATCH v14 0/5] Improve PMU support


From: Atish Kumar Patra
Subject: Re: [PATCH v14 0/5] Improve PMU support
Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2022 01:36:28 -0700



On Mon, Sep 19, 2022 at 3:08 PM Alistair Francis <alistair23@gmail.com> wrote:
On Thu, Aug 25, 2022 at 8:22 AM Atish Patra <atishp@rivosinc.com> wrote:
>
> The latest version of the SBI specification includes a Performance Monitoring
> Unit(PMU) extension[1] which allows the supervisor to start/stop/configure
> various PMU events. The Sscofpmf ('Ss' for Privileged arch and Supervisor-level
> extensions, and 'cofpmf' for Count OverFlow and Privilege Mode Filtering)
> extension[2] allows the perf like tool to handle overflow interrupts and
> filtering support.
>
> This series implements remaining PMU infrastructure to support
> PMU in virt machine. The first seven patches from the original series
> have been merged already.
>
> This will allow us to add any PMU events in future.
> Currently, this series enables the following omu events.
> 1. cycle count
> 2. instruction count
> 3. DTLB load/store miss
> 4. ITLB prefetch miss
>
> The first two are computed using host ticks while last three are counted during
> cpu_tlb_fill. We can do both sampling and count from guest userspace.
> This series has been tested on both RV64 and RV32. Both Linux[3] and Opensbi[4]
> patches are required to get the perf working.
>
> Here is an output of perf stat/report while running hackbench with latest
> OpenSBI & Linux kernel.
>
> Perf stat:
> ==========
> [root@fedora-riscv ~]# perf stat -e cycles -e instructions -e dTLB-load-misses -e dTLB-store-misses -e iTLB-load-misses \
> > perf bench sched messaging -g 1 -l 10
> # Running 'sched/messaging' benchmark:
> # 20 sender and receiver processes per group
> # 1 groups == 40 processes run
>
>      Total time: 0.265 [sec]
>
>  Performance counter stats for 'perf bench sched messaging -g 1 -l 10':
>
>      4,167,825,362      cycles
>      4,166,609,256      instructions              #    1.00  insn per cycle
>          3,092,026      dTLB-load-misses
>            258,280      dTLB-store-misses
>          2,068,966      iTLB-load-misses
>
>        0.585791767 seconds time elapsed
>
>        0.373802000 seconds user
>        1.042359000 seconds sys
>
> Perf record:
> ============
> [root@fedora-riscv ~]# perf record -e cycles -e instructions \
> > -e dTLB-load-misses -e dTLB-store-misses -e iTLB-load-misses -c 10000 \
> > perf bench sched messaging -g 1 -l 10
> # Running 'sched/messaging' benchmark:
> # 20 sender and receiver processes per group
> # 1 groups == 40 processes run
>
>      Total time: 1.397 [sec]
> [ perf record: Woken up 10 times to write data ]
> Check IO/CPU overload!
> [ perf record: Captured and wrote 8.211 MB perf.data (214486 samples) ]
>
> [root@fedora-riscv riscv]# perf report
> Available samples
> 107K cycles                                                                    ◆
> 107K instructions                                                              ▒
> 250 dTLB-load-misses                                                           ▒
> 13 dTLB-store-misses                                                           ▒
> 172 iTLB-load-misses
> ..
>
> Changes from v13->v14:
> 1. Added sanity check for the hashtable in pmu.c
>
> Changes from v12->v13:
> 1. Rebased on top of the apply-next.
> 2. Addressed comments about space & comment block.
>
> Changes from v11->v12:
> 1. Rebased on top of the apply-next.
> 2. Aligned the write function & .min_priv to the previous line.
> 3. Fixed the FDT generations for multi-socket scenario.
> 4. Dropped interrupt property from the DT.
> 5. Generate illegal instruction fault instead of virtual instruction fault
>    for VS/VU access while mcounteren is not set.
>
> Changes from v10->v11:
> 1. Rebased on top of the master where first 7 patches were already merged.
> 2. Removed unnecessary additional check in ctr predicate function.
> 3. Removed unnecessary priv version checks in mcountinhibit read/write.
> 4. Added Heiko's reviewed-by/tested-by tags.
>
> Changes from v8->v9:
> 1. Added the write_done flags to the vmstate.
> 2. Fixed the hpmcounter read access from M-mode.
>
> Changes from v7->v8:
> 1. Removeding ordering constraints for mhpmcounter & mhpmevent.
>
> Changes from v6->v7:
> 1. Fixed all the compilation errors for the usermode.
>
> Changes from v5->v6:
> 1. Fixed compilation issue with PATCH 1.
> 2. Addressed other comments.
>
> Changes from v4->v5:
> 1. Rebased on top of the -next with following patches.
>    - isa extension
>    - priv 1.12 spec
> 2. Addressed all the comments on v4
> 3. Removed additional isa-ext DT node in favor of riscv,isa string update
>
> Changes from v3->v4:
> 1. Removed the dummy events from pmu DT node.
> 2. Fixed pmu_avail_counters mask generation.
> 3. Added a patch to simplify the predicate function for counters.
>
> Changes from v2->v3:
> 1. Addressed all the comments on PATCH1-4.
> 2. Split patch1 into two separate patches.
> 3. Added explicit comments to explain the event types in DT node.
> 4. Rebased on latest Qemu.
>
> Changes from v1->v2:
> 1. Dropped the ACks from v1 as signficant changes happened after v1.
> 2. sscofpmf support.
> 3. A generic counter management framework.
>
> [1] https://github.com/riscv-non-isa/riscv-sbi-doc/blob/master/riscv-sbi.adoc
> [2] https://drive.google.com/file/d/171j4jFjIkKdj5LWcExphq4xG_2sihbfd/edit
> [3] https://github.com/atishp04/qemu/tree/riscv_pmu_v14
>
> Atish Patra (5):
> target/riscv: Add sscofpmf extension support
> target/riscv: Simplify counter predicate function
> target/riscv: Add few cache related PMU events
> hw/riscv: virt: Add PMU DT node to the device tree
> target/riscv: Update the privilege field for sscofpmf CSRs

Sorry, but this doesn't apply. Are you able to rebase it?


I am a bit confused. Your PULL request on Sep 7th already included this & sstc series.
I can see the patches in upstream qemu as well.

 
Alistair

>
> hw/riscv/virt.c           |  16 ++
> target/riscv/cpu.c        |  12 ++
> target/riscv/cpu.h        |  25 +++
> target/riscv/cpu_bits.h   |  55 +++++
> target/riscv/cpu_helper.c |  25 +++
> target/riscv/csr.c        | 304 +++++++++++++++++----------
> target/riscv/machine.c    |   1 +
> target/riscv/pmu.c        | 425 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
> target/riscv/pmu.h        |   8 +
> 9 files changed, 760 insertions(+), 111 deletions(-)
>
> --
> 2.25.1
>
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