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x86, perf: Disable non available architectural events
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Intel CPUs report non-available architectural events in cpuid leaf
0AH.EBX. Use it to disable events that are not available according
to CPU.

Signed-off-by: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1320929850-10480-7-git-send-email-gleb@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Gleb Natapov authored and Ingo Molnar committed Dec 6, 2011
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14 changes: 14 additions & 0 deletions arch/x86/include/asm/perf_event.h
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Expand Up @@ -57,6 +57,7 @@
(1 << (ARCH_PERFMON_UNHALTED_CORE_CYCLES_INDEX))

#define ARCH_PERFMON_BRANCH_MISSES_RETIRED 6
#define ARCH_PERFMON_EVENTS_COUNT 7

/*
* Intel "Architectural Performance Monitoring" CPUID
Expand All @@ -72,6 +73,19 @@ union cpuid10_eax {
unsigned int full;
};

union cpuid10_ebx {
struct {
unsigned int no_unhalted_core_cycles:1;
unsigned int no_instructions_retired:1;
unsigned int no_unhalted_reference_cycles:1;
unsigned int no_llc_reference:1;
unsigned int no_llc_misses:1;
unsigned int no_branch_instruction_retired:1;
unsigned int no_branch_misses_retired:1;
} split;
unsigned int full;
};

union cpuid10_edx {
struct {
unsigned int num_counters_fixed:5;
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5 changes: 5 additions & 0 deletions arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event.h
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Expand Up @@ -285,6 +285,11 @@ struct x86_pmu {
int num_counters_fixed;
int cntval_bits;
u64 cntval_mask;
union {
unsigned long events_maskl;
unsigned long events_mask[BITS_TO_LONGS(ARCH_PERFMON_EVENTS_COUNT)];
};
int events_mask_len;
int apic;
u64 max_period;
struct event_constraint *
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28 changes: 23 additions & 5 deletions arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_intel.c
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Expand Up @@ -1552,13 +1552,23 @@ static void intel_sandybridge_quirks(void)
x86_pmu.pebs_constraints = NULL;
}

static const int intel_event_id_to_hw_id[] __initconst = {
PERF_COUNT_HW_CPU_CYCLES,
PERF_COUNT_HW_INSTRUCTIONS,
PERF_COUNT_HW_BUS_CYCLES,
PERF_COUNT_HW_CACHE_REFERENCES,
PERF_COUNT_HW_CACHE_MISSES,
PERF_COUNT_HW_BRANCH_INSTRUCTIONS,
PERF_COUNT_HW_BRANCH_MISSES,
};

__init int intel_pmu_init(void)
{
union cpuid10_edx edx;
union cpuid10_eax eax;
union cpuid10_ebx ebx;
unsigned int unused;
unsigned int ebx;
int version;
int version, bit;

if (!cpu_has(&boot_cpu_data, X86_FEATURE_ARCH_PERFMON)) {
switch (boot_cpu_data.x86) {
Expand All @@ -1574,8 +1584,8 @@ __init int intel_pmu_init(void)
* Check whether the Architectural PerfMon supports
* Branch Misses Retired hw_event or not.
*/
cpuid(10, &eax.full, &ebx, &unused, &edx.full);
if (eax.split.mask_length <= ARCH_PERFMON_BRANCH_MISSES_RETIRED)
cpuid(10, &eax.full, &ebx.full, &unused, &edx.full);
if (eax.split.mask_length < ARCH_PERFMON_EVENTS_COUNT)
return -ENODEV;

version = eax.split.version_id;
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/* UOPS_EXECUTED.CORE_ACTIVE_CYCLES,c=1,i=1 */
intel_perfmon_event_map[PERF_COUNT_HW_STALLED_CYCLES_BACKEND] = 0x1803fb1;

if (ebx & 0x40) {
if (ebx.split.no_branch_misses_retired) {
/*
* Erratum AAJ80 detected, we work it around by using
* the BR_MISP_EXEC.ANY event. This will over-count
* branch-misses, but it's still much better than the
* architectural event which is often completely bogus:
*/
intel_perfmon_event_map[PERF_COUNT_HW_BRANCH_MISSES] = 0x7f89;
ebx.split.no_branch_misses_retired = 0;

pr_cont("erratum AAJ80 worked around, ");
}
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break;
}
}
x86_pmu.events_maskl = ebx.full;
x86_pmu.events_mask_len = eax.split.mask_length;

/* disable event that reported as not presend by cpuid */
for_each_set_bit(bit, x86_pmu.events_mask, ARRAY_SIZE(intel_event_id_to_hw_id))
intel_perfmon_event_map[intel_event_id_to_hw_id[bit]] = 0;

return 0;
}

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