linux-kernel - RE: [RFC PATCH v14 6/8] perf stat: Add command line option for enabling tpebs recording

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives
Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.
[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]
Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2024 18:14:50 +0000
From: "Wang, Weilin" <weilin.wang@...el.com>
To: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@...nel.org>
CC: Ian Rogers <irogers@...gle.com>, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
	<acme@...nel.org>, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>, Ingo Molnar
	<mingo@...hat.com>, Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@...ux.intel.com>,
	Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...nel.org>, "Hunter, Adrian" <adrian.hunter@...el.com>, Kan
 Liang <kan.liang@...ux.intel.com>, "linux-perf-users@...r.kernel.org"
	<linux-perf-users@...r.kernel.org>, "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org"
	<linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, "Taylor, Perry" <perry.taylor@...el.com>,
	"Alt, Samantha" <samantha.alt@...el.com>, "Biggers, Caleb"
	<caleb.biggers@...el.com>
Subject: RE: [RFC PATCH v14 6/8] perf stat: Add command line option for
 enabling tpebs recording



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@...nel.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, June 26, 2024 10:56 AM
> To: Wang, Weilin <weilin.wang@...el.com>
> Cc: Ian Rogers <irogers@...gle.com>; Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
> <acme@...nel.org>; Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>; Ingo Molnar
> <mingo@...hat.com>; Alexander Shishkin
> <alexander.shishkin@...ux.intel.com>; Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...nel.org>; Hunter,
> Adrian <adrian.hunter@...el.com>; Kan Liang <kan.liang@...ux.intel.com>;
> linux-perf-users@...r.kernel.org; linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org; Taylor, Perry
> <perry.taylor@...el.com>; Alt, Samantha <samantha.alt@...el.com>; Biggers,
> Caleb <caleb.biggers@...el.com>
> Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v14 6/8] perf stat: Add command line option for
> enabling tpebs recording
> 
> Hello Weilin,
> 
> On Mon, Jun 24, 2024 at 06:20:22PM -0400, weilin.wang@...el.com wrote:
> > From: Weilin Wang <weilin.wang@...el.com>
> >
> > With this command line option, tpebs recording is turned off in perf stat on
> > default. It will only be turned on when this option is given in perf stat
> > command.
> >
> > Exampe with --enable-tpebs-recording:
> 
> I prefer shorter names, how about --enable-tpebs or --record-tpebs, or
> maybe just --tpebs ?

Hi Namhyung,

The name --record-tpebs sounds good. I can update the code to use this one. 

Thanks,
Weilin
> 
> Thanks,
> Namhyung
> 
> >
> > perf stat -M tma_split_loads -C1-4 --enable-tpebs-recording sleep 1
> >
> > [ perf record: Woken up 2 times to write data ]
> > [ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.044 MB - ]
> >
> >  Performance counter stats for 'CPU(s) 1-4':
> >
> >     53,259,156,071      cpu_core/TOPDOWN.SLOTS/          #      1.6 %
> tma_split_loads          (50.00%)
> >     15,867,565,250      cpu_core/topdown-retiring/
> (50.00%)
> >     15,655,580,731      cpu_core/topdown-mem-bound/
> (50.00%)
> >     11,738,022,218      cpu_core/topdown-bad-spec/
> (50.00%)
> >      6,151,265,424      cpu_core/topdown-fe-bound/
> (50.00%)
> >     20,445,917,581      cpu_core/topdown-be-bound/
> (50.00%)
> >      6,925,098,013      cpu_core/L1D_PEND_MISS.PENDING/
> (50.00%)
> >      3,838,653,421      cpu_core/MEMORY_ACTIVITY.STALLS_L1D_MISS/
> (50.00%)
> >      4,797,059,783      cpu_core/EXE_ACTIVITY.BOUND_ON_LOADS/
> (50.00%)
> >     11,931,916,714      cpu_core/CPU_CLK_UNHALTED.THREAD/
> (50.00%)
> >        102,576,164      cpu_core/MEM_LOAD_COMPLETED.L1_MISS_ANY/
> (50.00%)
> >         64,071,854      cpu_core/MEM_INST_RETIRED.SPLIT_LOADS/
> (50.00%)
> >                  3      cpu_core/MEM_INST_RETIRED.SPLIT_LOADS/R
> >
> >        1.003049679 seconds time elapsed
> >
> > Exampe without --enable-tpebs-recording:
> >
> > perf stat -M tma_contested_accesses -C1 sleep 1
> >
> >  Performance counter stats for 'CPU(s) 1':
> >
> >         50,203,891      cpu_core/TOPDOWN.SLOTS/          #      0.0 %
> tma_contested_accesses   (63.60%)
> >         10,040,777      cpu_core/topdown-retiring/
> (63.60%)
> >          6,890,729      cpu_core/topdown-mem-bound/
> (63.60%)
> >          2,756,463      cpu_core/topdown-bad-spec/
> (63.60%)
> >         10,828,288      cpu_core/topdown-fe-bound/
> (63.60%)
> >         28,350,432      cpu_core/topdown-be-bound/
> (63.60%)
> >                 98      cpu_core/OCR.DEMAND_DATA_RD.L3_HIT.SNOOP_HITM/
> (63.70%)
> >            577,520      cpu_core/MEMORY_ACTIVITY.STALLS_L2_MISS/
> (54.62%)
> >            313,339      cpu_core/MEMORY_ACTIVITY.STALLS_L3_MISS/
> (54.62%)
> >             14,155      cpu_core/MEM_LOAD_RETIRED.L1_MISS/
> (45.54%)
> >                  0
> cpu_core/OCR.DEMAND_DATA_RD.L3_HIT.SNOOP_HIT_WITH_FWD/
> (36.30%)
> >          8,468,077      cpu_core/CPU_CLK_UNHALTED.THREAD/
> (45.38%)
> >                198      cpu_core/MEM_LOAD_L3_HIT_RETIRED.XSNP_MISS/
> (45.38%)
> >              8,324      cpu_core/MEM_LOAD_RETIRED.FB_HIT/
> (45.38%)
> >      3,388,031,520      TSC
> >         23,226,785      cpu_core/CPU_CLK_UNHALTED.REF_TSC/
> (54.46%)
> >                 80      cpu_core/MEM_LOAD_L3_HIT_RETIRED.XSNP_FWD/
> (54.46%)
> >                  0      cpu_core/MEM_LOAD_L3_HIT_RETIRED.XSNP_FWD/R
> >                  0      cpu_core/MEM_LOAD_L3_HIT_RETIRED.XSNP_MISS/R
> >      1,006,816,667 ns   duration_time
> >
> >        1.002537737 seconds time elapsed
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Weilin Wang <weilin.wang@...el.com>
> > ---
> >  tools/perf/Documentation/perf-stat.txt | 8 ++++++++
> >  tools/perf/builtin-stat.c              | 4 ++++
> >  2 files changed, 12 insertions(+)
> >
> > diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-stat.txt
> b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-stat.txt
> > index 29756a87ab6f..f4cde834811d 100644
> > --- a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-stat.txt
> > +++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-stat.txt
> > @@ -498,6 +498,14 @@ To interpret the results it is usually needed to
> know on which
> >  CPUs the workload runs on. If needed the CPUs can be forced using
> >  taskset.
> >
> > +--enable-tpebs-recording::
> > +Enable automatic sampling on Intel TPEBS retire_latency events (event
> with :R
> > +modifier). Without this option, perf would not capture dynamic
> retire_latency
> > +at runtime. Currently, a zero value is assigned to the retire_latency event
> when
> > +this option is not set. The TPEBS hardware feature starts from Intel Granite
> > +Rapids microarchitecture. This option only exists in X86_64 and is
> meaningful on
> > +Intel platforms with TPEBS feature.
> > +
> >  --td-level::
> >  Print the top-down statistics that equal the input level. It allows
> >  users to print the interested top-down metrics level instead of the
> > diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-stat.c b/tools/perf/builtin-stat.c
> > index 68125bd75b37..7111c96e68ab 100644
> > --- a/tools/perf/builtin-stat.c
> > +++ b/tools/perf/builtin-stat.c
> > @@ -2475,6 +2475,10 @@ int cmd_stat(int argc, const char **argv)
> >  			"disable adding events for the metric threshold
> calculation"),
> >  		OPT_BOOLEAN(0, "topdown", &topdown_run,
> >  			"measure top-down statistics"),
> > +#ifdef HAVE_ARCH_X86_64_SUPPORT
> > +		OPT_BOOLEAN(0, "enable-tpebs-recording",
> &tpebs_recording,
> > +			"enable recording for tpebs when retire_latency
> required"),
> > +#endif
> >  		OPT_UINTEGER(0, "td-level", &stat_config.topdown_level,
> >  			"Set the metrics level for the top-down statistics (0:
> max level)"),
> >  		OPT_BOOLEAN(0, "smi-cost", &smi_cost,
> > --
> > 2.43.0
> >