linux-kernel - [PATCH v8 1/5] perf: Add SNOOP_PEER flag to perf mem data struct

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Message-ID: <20220504184850.24986-2-alisaidi@amazon.com>
Date:   Wed, 4 May 2022 18:48:46 +0000
From:   Ali Saidi <alisaidi@...zon.com>
To:     <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, <linux-perf-users@...r.kernel.org>,
        <linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>, <german.gomez@....com>,
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Subject: [PATCH v8 1/5] perf: Add SNOOP_PEER flag to perf mem data struct

Add a flag to the perf mem data struct to signal that a request caused a
cache-to-cache transfer of a line from a peer of the requestor and
wasn't sourced from a lower cache level.  The line being moved from one
peer cache to another has latency and performance implications. On Arm64
Neoverse systems the data source can indicate a cache-to-cache transfer
but not if the line is dirty or clean, so instead of overloading HITM
define a new flag that indicates this type of transfer.

Signed-off-by: Ali Saidi <alisaidi@...zon.com>
Reviewed-by: Leo Yan <leo.yan@...aro.org>
---
 include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h b/include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h
index d37629dbad72..7b88bfd097dc 100644
--- a/include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h
+++ b/include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h
@@ -1310,7 +1310,7 @@ union perf_mem_data_src {
 #define PERF_MEM_SNOOP_SHIFT	19
 
 #define PERF_MEM_SNOOPX_FWD	0x01 /* forward */
-/* 1 free */
+#define PERF_MEM_SNOOPX_PEER	0x02 /* xfer from peer */
 #define PERF_MEM_SNOOPX_SHIFT  38
 
 /* locked instruction */
-- 
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