perf report: Add 'simd' sort field

Add 'simd' sort field to visualize SIMD ops in 'perf report'.

Rows are labeled with the SIMD ISA, and the type of predicate (if any):

  - [p] partial predicate
  - [e] empty predicate (no elements in the vector being used)

Example with Arm SPE and SVE (Scalable Vector Extension):

  #include <arm_sve.h>

  double src[1025], dst[1025];

  int main(void) {
    svfloat64_t vc = svdup_f64(1);
    for(;;)
      for(int i = 0; i < 1025; i += svcntd())
      {
        svbool_t pg = svwhilelt_b64(i, 1025);
        svfloat64_t vsrc = svld1(pg, &src[i]);
        svfloat64_t vdst = svadd_x(pg, vsrc, vc);
        svst1(pg, &dst[i], vdst);
      }
    return 0;
  }

  ... compiled using "gcc-11 -march=armv8-a+sve -O3"

Profiling on a platform that implements FEAT_SVE and FEAT_SPEv1p1:

  $ perf record -e arm_spe_0// -- ./a.out
  $ perf report --itrace=i1i -s overhead,pid,simd,sym

  Overhead      Pid:Command   Simd     Symbol
  ........  ................  .......  ......................

    53.76%    10758:program            [.] main
    46.14%    10758:program   [.] SVE  [.] main
     0.09%    10758:program   [p] SVE  [.] main

The report shows 0.09% of the sampled SVE operations use partial
predicates due to src and dst arrays not being multiples of the vector
register lengths.

Signed-off-by: German Gomez <german.gomez@arm.com>
Acked-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Anshuman.Khandual@arm.com
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: John Garry <john.g.garry@oracle.com>
Cc: Leo Yan <leo.yan@linaro.org>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Mike Leach <mike.leach@linaro.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230320151509.1137462-2-james.clark@arm.com
Signed-off-by: James Clark <james.clark@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-report.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-report.txt
index c242e8da6b1a..cfd502f7e6da 100644
--- a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-report.txt
+++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-report.txt
@@ -117,6 +117,7 @@ OPTIONS
 	- addr: (Full) virtual address of the sampled instruction
 	- retire_lat: On X86, this reports pipeline stall of this instruction compared
 	  to the previous instruction in cycles. And currently supported only on X86
+	- simd: Flags describing a SIMD operation. "e" for empty Arm SVE predicate. "p" for partial Arm SVE predicate
 
 	By default, comm, dso and symbol keys are used.
 	(i.e. --sort comm,dso,symbol)