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| author | Ravi Bangoria <ravi.bangoria@linux.ibm.com> | 2019-01-29 18:54:12 +0530 |
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| committer | Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> | 2019-02-04 11:32:14 -0300 |
| commit | f0fabf9c897327abd39018aefb5029aff8c7e133 (patch) | |
| tree | 7f438664f6584e3acb442a6a12150a468db03869 /tools/perf/Documentation | |
| parent | 489338a717a0dfbbd5a3fabccf172b78f0ac9015 (diff) | |
perf mem/c2c: Fix perf_mem_events to support powerpc
PowerPC hardware does not have a builtin latency filter (--ldlat) for
the "mem-load" event and perf_mem_events by default includes
"/ldlat=30/" which is causing a failure on PowerPC. Refactor the code to
support "perf mem/c2c" on PowerPC.
This patch depends on kernel side changes done my Madhavan:
https://lists.ozlabs.org/pipermail/linuxppc-dev/2018-December/182596.html
Signed-off-by: Ravi Bangoria <ravi.bangoria@linux.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Dick Fowles <fowles@inreach.com>
Cc: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Cc: Joe Mario <jmario@redhat.com>
Cc: Madhavan Srinivasan <maddy@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190129132412.771-1-ravi.bangoria@linux.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'tools/perf/Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | tools/perf/Documentation/perf-c2c.txt | 16 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | tools/perf/Documentation/perf-mem.txt | 2 |
2 files changed, 13 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-c2c.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-c2c.txt index 095aebdc5bb7..e6150f21267d 100644 --- a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-c2c.txt +++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-c2c.txt @@ -19,8 +19,11 @@ C2C stands for Cache To Cache. The perf c2c tool provides means for Shared Data C2C/HITM analysis. It allows you to track down the cacheline contentions. -The tool is based on x86's load latency and precise store facility events -provided by Intel CPUs. These events provide: +On x86, the tool is based on load latency and precise store facility events +provided by Intel CPUs. On PowerPC, the tool uses random instruction sampling +with thresholding feature. + +These events provide: - memory address of the access - type of the access (load and store details) - latency (in cycles) of the load access @@ -46,7 +49,7 @@ RECORD OPTIONS -l:: --ldlat:: - Configure mem-loads latency. + Configure mem-loads latency. (x86 only) -k:: --all-kernel:: @@ -119,11 +122,16 @@ Following perf record options are configured by default: -W,-d,--phys-data,--sample-cpu Unless specified otherwise with '-e' option, following events are monitored by -default: +default on x86: cpu/mem-loads,ldlat=30/P cpu/mem-stores/P +and following on PowerPC: + + cpu/mem-loads/ + cpu/mem-stores/ + User can pass any 'perf record' option behind '--' mark, like (to enable callchains and system wide monitoring): diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-mem.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-mem.txt index f8d2167cf3e7..199ea0f0a6c0 100644 --- a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-mem.txt +++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-mem.txt @@ -82,7 +82,7 @@ RECORD OPTIONS Be more verbose (show counter open errors, etc) --ldlat <n>:: - Specify desired latency for loads event. + Specify desired latency for loads event. (x86 only) In addition, for report all perf report options are valid, and for record all perf record options. |