Re: [PATCH 2/3] x86/topology: Fix AMD core count

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Sun, Mar 20, 2016 at 01:32:25PM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> Yes, but IIRC the F15h driver doesn't use the NB constraints, as they
> moved all the NB events to their own set of MSRs, which has
> events/amd/uncore.c.
> 
> So all the NB cruft in the core pmu is only relevant to F10h.
> 
> So F15h also calling and allocating NB cruft in the core PMU driver is
> entirely pointless.

Something like so.

---
 arch/x86/events/amd/core.c   | 21 ++++++++++++++++++---
 arch/x86/events/perf_event.h |  5 +++++
 2 files changed, 23 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/events/amd/core.c b/arch/x86/events/amd/core.c
index 049ada8d4e9c..62026a79a930 100644
--- a/arch/x86/events/amd/core.c
+++ b/arch/x86/events/amd/core.c
@@ -369,7 +369,7 @@ static int amd_pmu_cpu_prepare(int cpu)
 
 	WARN_ON_ONCE(cpuc->amd_nb);
 
-	if (boot_cpu_data.x86_max_cores < 2)
+	if (!x86_pmu.amd_nb)
 		return NOTIFY_OK;
 
 	cpuc->amd_nb = amd_alloc_nb(cpu);
@@ -388,7 +388,7 @@ static void amd_pmu_cpu_starting(int cpu)
 
 	cpuc->perf_ctr_virt_mask = AMD64_EVENTSEL_HOSTONLY;
 
-	if (boot_cpu_data.x86_max_cores < 2)
+	if (!x86_pmu.amd_nb)
 		return;
 
 	nb_id = amd_get_nb_id(cpu);
@@ -414,7 +414,7 @@ static void amd_pmu_cpu_dead(int cpu)
 {
 	struct cpu_hw_events *cpuhw;
 
-	if (boot_cpu_data.x86_max_cores < 2)
+	if (!x86_pmu.amd_nb)
 		return;
 
 	cpuhw = &per_cpu(cpu_hw_events, cpu);
@@ -648,6 +648,8 @@ static __initconst const struct x86_pmu amd_pmu = {
 	.cpu_prepare		= amd_pmu_cpu_prepare,
 	.cpu_starting		= amd_pmu_cpu_starting,
 	.cpu_dead		= amd_pmu_cpu_dead,
+
+	.amd_nb			= 1;
 };
 
 static int __init amd_core_pmu_init(void)
@@ -674,6 +676,11 @@ static int __init amd_core_pmu_init(void)
 	x86_pmu.eventsel	= MSR_F15H_PERF_CTL;
 	x86_pmu.perfctr		= MSR_F15H_PERF_CTR;
 	x86_pmu.num_counters	= AMD64_NUM_COUNTERS_CORE;
+	/*
+	 * AMD Core perfctr has separate MSRs for the NB events, see
+	 * the amd/uncore.c driver.
+	 */
+	x86_pmu.amd_nb		= 0;
 
 	pr_cont("core perfctr, ");
 	return 0;
@@ -693,6 +700,14 @@ __init int amd_pmu_init(void)
 	if (ret)
 		return ret;
 
+	if (num_possible_cpus() == 1) {
+		/*
+		 * No point in allocating data structures to serialize
+		 * against other CPUs, when there is only the one CPU.
+		 */
+		x86_pmu.amd_nb = 0;
+	}
+
 	/* Events are common for all AMDs */
 	memcpy(hw_cache_event_ids, amd_hw_cache_event_ids,
 	       sizeof(hw_cache_event_ids));
diff --git a/arch/x86/events/perf_event.h b/arch/x86/events/perf_event.h
index ba6ef18528c9..46d2ece10a7b 100644
--- a/arch/x86/events/perf_event.h
+++ b/arch/x86/events/perf_event.h
@@ -608,6 +608,11 @@ struct x86_pmu {
 	atomic_t	lbr_exclusive[x86_lbr_exclusive_max];
 
 	/*
+	 * AMD bits
+	 */
+	unsigned int	amd_nb	: 1;
+
+	/*
 	 * Extra registers for events
 	 */
 	struct extra_reg *extra_regs;