Re: [PATCH RESEND V5 0/6] perf, amd: Enable AMD family 15hnorthbridge counters

From: Stephane Eranian
Date: Thu Jan 24 2013 - 08:31:47 EST


On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 8:50 PM, Jacob Shin <jacob.shin@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> The following patchset enables 4 additional performance counters in
> AMD family 15h processors that count northbridge events -- such as
> number of DRAM accesses.
>
In order for me to test this patch set more thoroughly it would help if you
could also provide me a patch to add the Fam15h uncore events to libpfm4.
In the past, Robert Richter took care of this. I hope you can fill his role for
this. So please, if you could send me the patch quickly, that would help
the review of your patch.

Thanks.



> This patchset is based on previous work done by Robert Richter
> <rric@xxxxxxxxxx> :
>
> https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/6/19/324
>
> The main differences are:
>
> * The northbridge counters are indexed contiguously right above the
> core performance counters.
>
> * MSR address offset calculations are moved to architecture specific
> files.
>
> * Interrups are set up to be delivered only to a single core.
>
> V5:
> Rebased against latest tip
>
> V4:
> * Moved interrupt core select set up back to event constraints
> function, sicne during ->hw_config time we do not yet know on which
> CPU the the event will run on.
> * Tested on and made minor revisions to make sure that the patchset is
> compatible with upcoming AMD Family 16h processors, and will support
> core and NB counters without any further patches.
>
> V3:
> Addressed the following feedback/comments from Robert's review
> * https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/11/16/484
> * https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/11/26/162
>
> V2:
> Separate out Robert's patches, and add properly ordered certificate of
> origins.
>
> Jacob Shin (4):
> perf, amd: Use proper naming scheme for AMD bit field definitions
> perf, x86: Move MSR address offset calculation to architecture
> specific files
> perf, x86: Allow for architecture specific RDPMC indexes
> perf, amd: Enable northbridge performance counters on AMD family 15h
>
> Robert Richter (2):
> perf, amd: Rework northbridge event constraints handler
> perf, amd: Generalize northbridge constraints code for family 15h
>
> arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeature.h | 2 +
> arch/x86/include/asm/perf_event.h | 13 +-
> arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/msr-index.h | 2 +
> arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event.c | 2 +-
> arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event.h | 25 ++-
> arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_amd.c | 318 +++++++++++++++++++++++++--------
> 6 files changed, 268 insertions(+), 94 deletions(-)
>
> --
> 1.7.9.5
>
>
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