Re: [PATCH v1 09/10] perf/x86/uncore: add hrtimer to SNB uncore IMCPMU

From: Yan, Zheng
Date: Mon Feb 10 2014 - 01:05:16 EST


On 02/03/2014 08:55 PM, Stephane Eranian wrote:
> This patch is needed because that PMU uses 32-bit free
> running counters with no interrupt capabilities.
>
> On SNB/IVB/HSW, we used 20GB/s theoretical peak to calculate
> the hrtimer timeout necessary to avoid missing an overflow.
> That delay is set to 5s to be on the cautious side.
>
> The SNB IMC uses free running counters, which are handled
> via pseudo fixed counters. The SNB IMC PMU implementation
> supports an arbitrary number of events, because the counters
> are read-only. Therefore it is not possible to track active
> counters. Instead we put active events on a linked list which
> is then used by the hrtimer handler to update the SW counts.
>
> Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_intel_uncore.c | 12 ++++++++++++
> arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_intel_uncore.h | 2 ++
> 2 files changed, 14 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_intel_uncore.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_intel_uncore.c
> index 8b1f81f..f76937e 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_intel_uncore.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_intel_uncore.c
> @@ -1730,6 +1730,7 @@ static void snb_uncore_imc_init_box(struct intel_uncore_box *box)
> addr &= ~(PAGE_SIZE - 1);
>
> box->io_addr = ioremap(addr, SNB_UNCORE_PCI_IMC_MAP_SIZE);
> + box->hrtimer_duration = UNCORE_SNB_IMC_HRTIMER_INTERVAL;
> }
>
> static void snb_uncore_imc_enable_box(struct intel_uncore_box *box)
> @@ -3166,6 +3167,7 @@ static void uncore_perf_event_update(struct intel_uncore_box *box, struct perf_e
> static enum hrtimer_restart uncore_pmu_hrtimer(struct hrtimer *hrtimer)
> {
> struct intel_uncore_box *box;
> + struct perf_event *event;
> unsigned long flags;
> int bit;
>
> @@ -3178,6 +3180,14 @@ static enum hrtimer_restart uncore_pmu_hrtimer(struct hrtimer *hrtimer)
> */
> local_irq_save(flags);
>
> + /*
> + * handle boxes with an active event list as opposed to active
> + * counters
> + */
> + list_for_each_entry(event, &box->active_list, active_entry) {
> + uncore_perf_event_update(box, event);
> + }
> +
> for_each_set_bit(bit, box->active_mask, UNCORE_PMC_IDX_MAX)
> uncore_perf_event_update(box, box->events[bit]);
>
> @@ -3227,6 +3237,8 @@ static struct intel_uncore_box *uncore_alloc_box(struct intel_uncore_type *type,
> /* set default hrtimer timeout */
> box->hrtimer_duration = UNCORE_PMU_HRTIMER_INTERVAL;
>
> + INIT_LIST_HEAD(&box->active_list);
> +
> return box;
> }
>
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_intel_uncore.h b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_intel_uncore.h
> index 0770da2..634de93 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_intel_uncore.h
> +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_intel_uncore.h
> @@ -6,6 +6,7 @@
>
> #define UNCORE_PMU_NAME_LEN 32
> #define UNCORE_PMU_HRTIMER_INTERVAL (60LL * NSEC_PER_SEC)
> +#define UNCORE_SNB_IMC_HRTIMER_INTERVAL (5ULL * NSEC_PER_SEC)
>
> #define UNCORE_FIXED_EVENT 0xff
> #define UNCORE_PMC_IDX_MAX_GENERIC 8
> @@ -492,6 +493,7 @@ struct intel_uncore_box {
> u64 hrtimer_duration; /* hrtimer timeout for this box */
> struct hrtimer hrtimer;
> struct list_head list;
> + struct list_head active_list;

I think patch 8 and patch 9 are disordered

Regards
Yan, Zheng

> void *io_addr;
> struct intel_uncore_extra_reg shared_regs[0];
> };
>

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