[Patch v5 00/10] arch-PEBS enabling for Intel platforms
From: Dapeng Mi
Date: Wed Jun 25 2025 - 23:42:59 EST
This patchset introduces architectural PEBS support for Intel platforms
like Clearwater Forest (CWF) and Panther Lake (PTL). The detailed
information about arch-PEBS can be found in chapter 11
"architectural PEBS" of "Intel Architecture Instruction Set Extensions
and Future Features".
This patch set doesn't include the SSP and SIMD regs (OPMASK/YMM/ZMM)
sampling support for arch-PEBS to avoid the dependency for the basic
SIMD regs sampling support patch series[1]. Once the basic SIMD regs
sampling is supported, the arch-PEBS based SSP and SIMD regs
(OPMASK/YMM/ZMM) sampling would be supported in a later patch set.
Changes:
v4 -> v5:
* Rebase code to 6.16-rc3
* Allocate/free arch-PEBS buffer in callbacks *prepare_cpu/*dead_cpu
(patch 07/10, Peter)
* Code and comments refine (patch 09/10, Peter)
Tests:
Run below tests on Clearwater Forest and Pantherlake, no issue is
found.
1. Basic perf counting case.
perf stat -e '{branches,branches,branches,branches,branches,branches,branches,branches,cycles,instructions,ref-cycles}' sleep 1
2. Basic PMI based perf sampling case.
perf record -e '{branches,branches,branches,branches,branches,branches,branches,branches,cycles,instructions,ref-cycles}' sleep 1
3. Basic PEBS based perf sampling case.
perf record -e '{branches,branches,branches,branches,branches,branches,branches,branches,cycles,instructions,ref-cycles}:p' sleep 1
4. PEBS sampling case with basic, GPRs, vector-registers and LBR groups
perf record -e branches:p -Iax,bx,ip,xmm0 -b -c 10000 sleep 1
5. User space PEBS sampling case with basic, GPRs and LBR groups
perf record -e branches:p --user-regs=ax,bx,ip -b -c 10000 sleep 1
6 PEBS sampling case with auxiliary (memory info) group
perf mem record sleep 1
7. PEBS sampling case with counter group
perf record -e '{branches:p,branches,cycles}:S' -c 10000 sleep 1
8. Perf stat and record test
perf test 96; perf test 125
History:
v4: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250620103909.1586595-1-dapeng1.mi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/
v3: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250415114428.341182-1-dapeng1.mi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/
v2: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250218152818.158614-1-dapeng1.mi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/
v1: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250123140721.2496639-1-dapeng1.mi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/
Ref:
[1]: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250613134943.3186517-1-kan.liang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/
Dapeng Mi (10):
perf/x86/intel: Replace x86_pmu.drain_pebs calling with static call
perf/x86/intel: Correct large PEBS flag check
perf/x86/intel: Initialize architectural PEBS
perf/x86/intel/ds: Factor out PEBS record processing code to functions
perf/x86/intel/ds: Factor out PEBS group processing code to functions
perf/x86/intel: Process arch-PEBS records or record fragments
perf/x86/intel: Allocate arch-PEBS buffer and initialize PEBS_BASE MSR
perf/x86/intel: Update dyn_constranit base on PEBS event precise level
perf/x86/intel: Setup PEBS data configuration and enable legacy groups
perf/x86/intel: Add counter group support for arch-PEBS
arch/x86/events/core.c | 21 +-
arch/x86/events/intel/core.c | 268 +++++++++++++-
arch/x86/events/intel/ds.c | 595 ++++++++++++++++++++++++------
arch/x86/events/perf_event.h | 40 +-
arch/x86/include/asm/intel_ds.h | 10 +-
arch/x86/include/asm/msr-index.h | 20 +
arch/x86/include/asm/perf_event.h | 116 +++++-
7 files changed, 930 insertions(+), 140 deletions(-)
base-commit: 86731a2a651e58953fc949573895f2fa6d456841
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