Performance Monitoring Unit (PMU) registers in powerpc exports number of cycles elapsed between different stages in the pipeline. Example, sampling registers in ISA v3.1.
This patchset implements kernel and perf tools support to expose these pipeline stage cycles using the sample type PERF_SAMPLE_WEIGHT_TYPE. Patch 1/4 adds kernel side support to store the cycle counter values as part of 'var2_w' and 'var3_w' fields of perf_sample_weight structure. Patch 2/4 adds support to make the perf report column header strings as dynamic. Patch 3/4 adds powerpc support in perf tools for PERF_SAMPLE_WEIGHT_STRUCT in sample type: PERF_SAMPLE_WEIGHT_TYPE. Patch 4/4 adds support to present pipeline stage cycles as part of mem-mode. Sample output on powerpc: # perf mem record ls # perf mem report # To display the perf.data header info, please use --header/--header-only options. # # # Total Lost Samples: 0 # # Samples: 11 of event 'cpu/mem-loads/' # Total weight : 1332 # Sort order : local_weight,mem,sym,dso,symbol_daddr,dso_daddr,snoop,tlb,locked,blocked,local_ins_lat,stall_cyc # # Overhead Samples Local Weight Memory access Symbol Shared Object Data Symbol Data Object Snoop TLB access Locked Blocked Finish Cyc Dispatch Cyc # ........ ............ ............ ........................ .................................. ................ ............................................. ..................... ............ ...................... ...... .......... ............. ............. # 44.14% 1 588 L1 hit [k] rcu_nmi_exit [kernel.vmlinux] [k] 0xc0000007ffdd21b0 [unknown] N/A N/A No N/A 7 5 22.22% 1 296 L1 hit [k] copypage_power7 [kernel.vmlinux] [k] 0xc0000000ff6a1780 [unknown] N/A N/A No N/A 293 3 6.98% 1 93 L1 hit [.] _dl_addr libc-2.31.so [.] 0x00007fff86fa5058 libc-2.31.so N/A N/A No N/A 7 1 6.61% 1 88 L2 hit [.] new_do_write libc-2.31.so [.] _IO_2_1_stdout_+0x0 libc-2.31.so N/A N/A No N/A 84 1 5.93% 1 79 L1 hit [k] printk_nmi_exit [kernel.vmlinux] [k] 0xc0000006085df6b0 [unknown] N/A N/A No N/A 7 1 4.05% 1 54 L2 hit [.] __alloc_dir libc-2.31.so [.] 0x00007fffdb70a640 [stack] N/A N/A No N/A 18 1 3.60% 1 48 L1 hit [.] _init ls [.] 0x000000016ca82118 [heap] N/A N/A No N/A 7 6 2.40% 1 32 L1 hit [k] desc_read [kernel.vmlinux] [k] _printk_rb_static_descs+0x1ea10 [kernel.vmlinux].data N/A N/A No N/A 7 1 1.65% 1 22 L2 hit [k] perf_iterate_ctx.constprop.139 [kernel.vmlinux] [k] 0xc00000064d79e8a8 [unknown] N/A N/A No N/A 16 1 1.58% 1 21 L1 hit [k] perf_event_interrupt [kernel.vmlinux] [k] 0xc0000006085df6b0 [unknown] N/A N/A No N/A 7 1 0.83% 1 11 L1 hit [k] perf_event_exec [kernel.vmlinux] [k] 0xc0000007ffdd3288 [unknown] N/A N/A No N/A 7 4 Athira Rajeev (4): powerpc/perf: Expose processor pipeline stage cycles using PERF_SAMPLE_WEIGHT_STRUCT tools/perf: Add dynamic headers for perf report columns tools/perf: Add powerpc support for PERF_SAMPLE_WEIGHT_STRUCT tools/perf: Support pipeline stage cycles for powerpc arch/powerpc/include/asm/perf_event_server.h | 2 +- arch/powerpc/perf/core-book3s.c | 4 +-- arch/powerpc/perf/isa207-common.c | 29 ++++++++++++++++-- arch/powerpc/perf/isa207-common.h | 6 +++- tools/perf/Documentation/perf-report.txt | 1 + tools/perf/arch/powerpc/util/Build | 2 ++ tools/perf/arch/powerpc/util/event.c | 46 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ tools/perf/arch/powerpc/util/evsel.c | 8 +++++ tools/perf/util/event.h | 2 ++ tools/perf/util/hist.c | 11 +++++-- tools/perf/util/hist.h | 1 + tools/perf/util/session.c | 4 ++- tools/perf/util/sort.c | 41 +++++++++++++++++++++++-- tools/perf/util/sort.h | 2 ++ 14 files changed, 146 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-) create mode 100644 tools/perf/arch/powerpc/util/event.c create mode 100644 tools/perf/arch/powerpc/util/evsel.c -- 1.8.3.1