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Message-ID: <159782713022.3192.7440422907426444873.tip-bot2@tip-bot2>
Date:   Wed, 19 Aug 2020 08:52:10 -0000
From:   "tip-bot2 for Kan Liang" <tip-bot2@...utronix.de>
To:     linux-tip-commits@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Kan Liang <kan.liang@...ux.intel.com>,
        "Peter Zijlstra (Intel)" <peterz@...radead.org>,
        x86 <x86@...nel.org>, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: [tip: perf/core] perf/x86/intel: Introduce the fourth fixed counter

The following commit has been merged into the perf/core branch of tip:

Commit-ID:     6f7225099d5f3ec3019f380a0da2b456b7796cb0
Gitweb:        https://git.kernel.org/tip/6f7225099d5f3ec3019f380a0da2b456b7796cb0
Author:        Kan Liang <kan.liang@...ux.intel.com>
AuthorDate:    Thu, 23 Jul 2020 10:11:06 -07:00
Committer:     Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
CommitterDate: Tue, 18 Aug 2020 16:34:35 +02:00

perf/x86/intel: Introduce the fourth fixed counter

The fourth fixed counter, TOPDOWN.SLOTS, is introduced in Ice Lake to
measure the level 1 TopDown events.

Add MSR address and macros for the new fixed counter, which will be used
in a later patch.

Add comments to explain the event encoding rules for the fixed counters.

Signed-off-by: Kan Liang <kan.liang@...ux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@...radead.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200723171117.9918-4-kan.liang@linux.intel.com
---
 arch/x86/include/asm/perf_event.h | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++---
 1 file changed, 20 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/perf_event.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/perf_event.h
index fd3eba6..fe8110a 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/perf_event.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/perf_event.h
@@ -197,12 +197,24 @@ struct x86_pmu_capability {
  */
 
 /*
- * All 3 fixed-mode PMCs are configured via this single MSR:
+ * All the fixed-mode PMCs are configured via this single MSR:
  */
 #define MSR_ARCH_PERFMON_FIXED_CTR_CTRL	0x38d
 
 /*
- * The counts are available in three separate MSRs:
+ * There is no event-code assigned to the fixed-mode PMCs.
+ *
+ * For a fixed-mode PMC, which has an equivalent event on a general-purpose
+ * PMC, the event-code of the equivalent event is used for the fixed-mode PMC,
+ * e.g., Instr_Retired.Any and CPU_CLK_Unhalted.Core.
+ *
+ * For a fixed-mode PMC, which doesn't have an equivalent event, a
+ * pseudo-encoding is used, e.g., CPU_CLK_Unhalted.Ref and TOPDOWN.SLOTS.
+ * The pseudo event-code for a fixed-mode PMC must be 0x00.
+ * The pseudo umask-code is 0xX. The X equals the index of the fixed
+ * counter + 1, e.g., the fixed counter 2 has the pseudo-encoding 0x0300.
+ *
+ * The counts are available in separate MSRs:
  */
 
 /* Instr_Retired.Any: */
@@ -213,11 +225,16 @@ struct x86_pmu_capability {
 #define MSR_ARCH_PERFMON_FIXED_CTR1	0x30a
 #define INTEL_PMC_IDX_FIXED_CPU_CYCLES	(INTEL_PMC_IDX_FIXED + 1)
 
-/* CPU_CLK_Unhalted.Ref: */
+/* CPU_CLK_Unhalted.Ref: event=0x00,umask=0x3 (pseudo-encoding) */
 #define MSR_ARCH_PERFMON_FIXED_CTR2	0x30b
 #define INTEL_PMC_IDX_FIXED_REF_CYCLES	(INTEL_PMC_IDX_FIXED + 2)
 #define INTEL_PMC_MSK_FIXED_REF_CYCLES	(1ULL << INTEL_PMC_IDX_FIXED_REF_CYCLES)
 
+/* TOPDOWN.SLOTS: event=0x00,umask=0x4 (pseudo-encoding) */
+#define MSR_ARCH_PERFMON_FIXED_CTR3	0x30c
+#define INTEL_PMC_IDX_FIXED_SLOTS	(INTEL_PMC_IDX_FIXED + 3)
+#define INTEL_PMC_MSK_FIXED_SLOTS	(1ULL << INTEL_PMC_IDX_FIXED_SLOTS)
+
 /*
  * We model BTS tracing as another fixed-mode PMC.
  *