[PATCH 5/5] x86, perf: Limit LBR accesses to TOS in callstack mode

From: Andi Kleen
Date: Thu May 28 2015 - 00:14:00 EST


From: Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

In callstack mode the LBR is not a ring buffer, but a stack that grows up
and down. This means in this case we don't need to access all LBRs, only the
ones up to TOS. Do this optimization for the normal LBR read, and the context
switch save/restore code. For save/restore it can be done unconditionally, as
it only runs when call stack mode is active.

This recovers some of the cost of going to 32 LBRs on Skylake.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_intel_lbr.c | 10 +++++++---
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_intel_lbr.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_intel_lbr.c
index fa5c731..8e1740e 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_intel_lbr.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_intel_lbr.c
@@ -238,7 +238,7 @@ static void __intel_pmu_lbr_restore(struct x86_perf_task_context *task_ctx)

mask = x86_pmu.lbr_nr - 1;
tos = intel_pmu_lbr_tos();
- for (i = 0; i < x86_pmu.lbr_nr; i++) {
+ for (i = 0; i < tos; i++) {
lbr_idx = (tos - i) & mask;
wrmsrl(x86_pmu.lbr_from + lbr_idx, task_ctx->lbr_from[i]);
wrmsrl(x86_pmu.lbr_to + lbr_idx, task_ctx->lbr_to[i]);
@@ -261,7 +261,7 @@ static void __intel_pmu_lbr_save(struct x86_perf_task_context *task_ctx)

mask = x86_pmu.lbr_nr - 1;
tos = intel_pmu_lbr_tos();
- for (i = 0; i < x86_pmu.lbr_nr; i++) {
+ for (i = 0; i < tos; i++) {
lbr_idx = (tos - i) & mask;
rdmsrl(x86_pmu.lbr_from + lbr_idx, task_ctx->lbr_from[i]);
rdmsrl(x86_pmu.lbr_to + lbr_idx, task_ctx->lbr_to[i]);
@@ -436,8 +436,12 @@ static void intel_pmu_lbr_read_64(struct cpu_hw_events *cpuc,
u64 tos = intel_pmu_lbr_tos();
int i;
int out = 0;
+ int num = x86_pmu.lbr_nr;

- for (i = 0; i < x86_pmu.lbr_nr; i++) {
+ if (cpuc->lbr_sel->config & LBR_CALL_STACK)
+ num = tos;
+
+ for (i = 0; i < num; i++) {
unsigned long lbr_idx = (tos - i) & mask;
u64 from, to, mis = 0, pred = 0, in_tx = 0, abort = 0;
int skip = 0;
--
2.1.0

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