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Message-ID: <c509996d-fdda-4a57-b6ac-597c811f7786@linux.intel.com>
Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2024 16:55:50 +0800
From: "Mi, Dapeng" <dapeng1.mi@...ux.intel.com>
To: Mingwei Zhang <mizhang@...gle.com>
Cc: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@...gle.com>,
Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>, Jim Mattson <jmattson@...gle.com>,
kvm@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
Zhenyu Wang <zhenyuw@...ux.intel.com>, Zhang Xiong
<xiong.y.zhang@...el.com>, Like Xu <like.xu.linux@...il.com>,
Jinrong Liang <cloudliang@...cent.com>, Dapeng Mi <dapeng1.mi@...el.com>
Subject: Re: [kvm-unit-tests Patch v3 07/11] x86: pmu: Enable and disable PMCs
in loop() asm blob
On 3/27/2024 2:07 PM, Mingwei Zhang wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 03, 2024, Dapeng Mi wrote:
>> Currently enabling PMCs, executing loop() and disabling PMCs are divided
>> 3 separated functions. So there could be other instructions executed
>> between enabling PMCS and running loop() or running loop() and disabling
>> PMCs, e.g. if there are multiple counters enabled in measure_many()
>> function, the instructions which enabling the 2nd and more counters
>> would be counted in by the 1st counter.
>>
>> So current implementation can only verify the correctness of count by an
>> rough range rather than a precise count even for instructions and
>> branches events. Strictly speaking, this verification is meaningless as
>> the test could still pass even though KVM vPMU has something wrong and
>> reports an incorrect instructions or branches count which is in the rough
>> range.
>>
>> Thus, move the PMCs enabling and disabling into the loop() asm blob and
>> ensure only the loop asm instructions would be counted, then the
>> instructions or branches events can be verified with an precise count
>> instead of an rough range.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Dapeng Mi <dapeng1.mi@...ux.intel.com>
>> ---
>> x86/pmu.c | 83 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------
>> 1 file changed, 69 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/x86/pmu.c b/x86/pmu.c
>> index 46bed66c5c9f..88b89ad889b9 100644
>> --- a/x86/pmu.c
>> +++ b/x86/pmu.c
>> @@ -18,6 +18,20 @@
>> #define EXPECTED_INSTR 17
>> #define EXPECTED_BRNCH 5
>>
>> +// Instrustion number of LOOP_ASM code
>> +#define LOOP_INSTRNS 10
>> +#define LOOP_ASM \
>> + "1: mov (%1), %2; add $64, %1;\n\t" \
>> + "nop; nop; nop; nop; nop; nop; nop;\n\t" \
>> + "loop 1b;\n\t"
>> +
>> +#define PRECISE_LOOP_ASM \
>> + "wrmsr;\n\t" \
>> + "mov %%ecx, %%edi; mov %%ebx, %%ecx;\n\t" \
>> + LOOP_ASM \
>> + "mov %%edi, %%ecx; xor %%eax, %%eax; xor %%edx, %%edx;\n\t" \
>> + "wrmsr;\n\t"
> Can we add "FEP" prefix into the above blob? This way, we can expand the
> testing for emulated instructions.
Yeah, that sounds like a new feature request. I would add it in next
version.
>> +
>> typedef struct {
>> uint32_t ctr;
>> uint64_t config;
>> @@ -54,13 +68,43 @@ char *buf;
>> static struct pmu_event *gp_events;
>> static unsigned int gp_events_size;
>>
>> -static inline void loop(void)
>> +
>> +static inline void __loop(void)
>> +{
>> + unsigned long tmp, tmp2, tmp3;
>> +
>> + asm volatile(LOOP_ASM
>> + : "=c"(tmp), "=r"(tmp2), "=r"(tmp3)
>> + : "0"(N), "1"(buf));
>> +}
>> +
>> +/*
>> + * Enable and disable counters in a whole asm blob to ensure
>> + * no other instructions are counted in the time slot between
>> + * counters enabling and really LOOP_ASM code executing.
>> + * Thus counters can verify instructions and branches events
>> + * against precise counts instead of a rough valid count range.
>> + */
>> +static inline void __precise_count_loop(u64 cntrs)
>> {
>> unsigned long tmp, tmp2, tmp3;
>> + unsigned int global_ctl = pmu.msr_global_ctl;
>> + u32 eax = cntrs & (BIT_ULL(32) - 1);
>> + u32 edx = cntrs >> 32;
>>
>> - asm volatile("1: mov (%1), %2; add $64, %1; nop; nop; nop; nop; nop; nop; nop; loop 1b"
>> - : "=c"(tmp), "=r"(tmp2), "=r"(tmp3): "0"(N), "1"(buf));
>> + asm volatile(PRECISE_LOOP_ASM
>> + : "=b"(tmp), "=r"(tmp2), "=r"(tmp3)
>> + : "a"(eax), "d"(edx), "c"(global_ctl),
>> + "0"(N), "1"(buf)
>> + : "edi");
>> +}
>>
>> +static inline void loop(u64 cntrs)
>> +{
>> + if (!this_cpu_has_perf_global_ctrl())
>> + __loop();
>> + else
>> + __precise_count_loop(cntrs);
>> }
>>
>> volatile uint64_t irq_received;
>> @@ -159,18 +203,17 @@ static void __start_event(pmu_counter_t *evt, uint64_t count)
>> ctrl = (ctrl & ~(0xf << shift)) | (usrospmi << shift);
>> wrmsr(MSR_CORE_PERF_FIXED_CTR_CTRL, ctrl);
>> }
>> - global_enable(evt);
>> apic_write(APIC_LVTPC, PMI_VECTOR);
>> }
>>
>> static void start_event(pmu_counter_t *evt)
>> {
>> __start_event(evt, 0);
>> + global_enable(evt);
>> }
>>
>> -static void stop_event(pmu_counter_t *evt)
>> +static void __stop_event(pmu_counter_t *evt)
>> {
>> - global_disable(evt);
>> if (is_gp(evt)) {
>> wrmsr(MSR_GP_EVENT_SELECTx(event_to_global_idx(evt)),
>> evt->config & ~EVNTSEL_EN);
>> @@ -182,14 +225,24 @@ static void stop_event(pmu_counter_t *evt)
>> evt->count = rdmsr(evt->ctr);
>> }
>>
>> +static void stop_event(pmu_counter_t *evt)
>> +{
>> + global_disable(evt);
>> + __stop_event(evt);
>> +}
>> +
>> static noinline void measure_many(pmu_counter_t *evt, int count)
>> {
>> int i;
>> + u64 cntrs = 0;
>> +
>> + for (i = 0; i < count; i++) {
>> + __start_event(&evt[i], 0);
>> + cntrs |= BIT_ULL(event_to_global_idx(&evt[i]));
>> + }
>> + loop(cntrs);
>> for (i = 0; i < count; i++)
>> - start_event(&evt[i]);
>> - loop();
>> - for (i = 0; i < count; i++)
>> - stop_event(&evt[i]);
>> + __stop_event(&evt[i]);
>> }
>>
>> static void measure_one(pmu_counter_t *evt)
>> @@ -199,9 +252,11 @@ static void measure_one(pmu_counter_t *evt)
>>
>> static noinline void __measure(pmu_counter_t *evt, uint64_t count)
>> {
>> + u64 cntrs = BIT_ULL(event_to_global_idx(evt));
>> +
>> __start_event(evt, count);
>> - loop();
>> - stop_event(evt);
>> + loop(cntrs);
>> + __stop_event(evt);
>> }
>>
>> static bool verify_event(uint64_t count, struct pmu_event *e)
>> @@ -451,7 +506,7 @@ static void check_running_counter_wrmsr(void)
>> report_prefix_push("running counter wrmsr");
>>
>> start_event(&evt);
>> - loop();
>> + __loop();
>> wrmsr(MSR_GP_COUNTERx(0), 0);
>> stop_event(&evt);
>> report(evt.count < gp_events[0].min, "cntr");
>> @@ -468,7 +523,7 @@ static void check_running_counter_wrmsr(void)
>>
>> wrmsr(MSR_GP_COUNTERx(0), count);
>>
>> - loop();
>> + __loop();
>> stop_event(&evt);
>>
>> if (this_cpu_has_perf_global_status()) {
>> --
>> 2.34.1
>>
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