Re: [PATCH] perf/x86/intel/uncore: fix broken read_counter() for SNB IMC PMU

[Stephane Eranian]

On Thu, Aug 4, 2022 at 6:09 AM Liang, Kan <kan.liang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> On 2022-08-03 12:00 p.m., Stephane Eranian wrote:
> > Existing code was generating bogus counts for the SNB IMC bandwidth counters:
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> > $ perf stat -a -I 1000 -e uncore_imc/data_reads/,uncore_imc/data_writes/
> >      1.000327813           1,024.03 MiB  uncore_imc/data_reads/
> >      1.000327813              20.73 MiB  uncore_imc/data_writes/
> >      2.000580153         261,120.00 MiB  uncore_imc/data_reads/
> >      2.000580153              23.28 MiB  uncore_imc/data_writes/
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> > The problem was introduced by commit:
> >   07ce734dd8ad ("perf/x86/intel/uncore: Clean up client IMC")
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> > Where the read_counter callback was replace to point to the generic
> > uncore_mmio_read_counter() function.
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> > The SNB IMC counters are freerunnig 32-bit counters laid out contiguously in
> > MMIO. But uncore_mmio_read_counter() is using a readq() call to read from
> > MMIO therefore reading 64-bit from MMIO. Although this is okay for the
> > uncore_perf_event_update() function because it is shifting the value based
> > on the actual counter width to compute a delta, it is not okay for the
> > uncore_pmu_event_start() which is simply reading the counter  and therefore
> > priming the event->prev_count with a bogus value which is responsible for
> > causing bogus deltas in the perf stat command above.
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> > The fix is to reintroduce the custom callback for read_counter for the SNB
> > IMC PMU and use readl() instead of readq(). With the change the output of
> > perf stat is back to normal:
> > $ perf stat -a -I 1000 -e uncore_imc/data_reads/,uncore_imc/data_writes/
> >      1.000120987             296.94 MiB  uncore_imc/data_reads/
> >      1.000120987             138.42 MiB  uncore_imc/data_writes/
> >      2.000403144             175.91 MiB  uncore_imc/data_reads/
> >      2.000403144              68.50 MiB  uncore_imc/data_writes/
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> > Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@xxxxxxxxxx>
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> Reviewed-by: Kan Liang <kan.liang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Any further comments?
Thanks.