On Mon, 2017-11-20 at 15:07 +0100, Jiri Olsa wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 17, 2017 at 05:54:06PM -0800, Megha Dey wrote:
>
> SNIP
>
> > +IV. User-configurable inputs
> > +============================
> > +
> > +Several sysfs entries are provided in /sys/devices/intel_bm/ to configure
> > +controls for the supported hardware heuristics.
> > +
> > +1. LBR freeze: /sys/devices/intel-bm/lbr_freeze
> > + possible values are 0 or 1. By default this is disabled(0). When enabled,
> > + an LBR freeze is observed on threshold trip
> > +
> > +2. Guest Disable: /sys/devices/intel-bm/guest_disable
> > + Possible values are 0 or 1. By default it is 0. When set to ‘1’, branch
> > + monitoring feature is disabled when operating at VMX non-root operation.
> > +
> > +3. Window size: /sys/devices/intel-bm/window_size
> > + By default, window size is 1023. It can take values from 0 to 1023. This
> > + represents the number of instructions to be executed before the event
> > + counters are reset.
> > +
> > +4. Window count select: /sys/devices/intel-bm/window_cnt_sel
> > + Possible values are:
> > + ‘00 = instructions retired
> > + ‘01 = branches retired
> > + ‘10 = returned instructions retired
> > + ‘11 = indirect branch instructions retired
> > + By default, it has a value of 0.
> > +
> > +5. Count and mode: /sys/devices/intel-bm/cnt_and_mode
> > + Possible values are 0 or 1. By default it is 0. When set to ‘1’, the
> > + overall event triggering condition is true only if both enabled
> > + counter’s threshold conditions are true. When ‘0’, the threshold
> > + tripping condition is true if either enabled counter’s threshold is
> > + true. If a counter is not enabled, then it does not factor into the
> > + AND’ing logic
> > +
> > +6. Threshold: /sys/devices/intel-bm/threshold
> > + An unsigned value of 0 to 127 is supported. The value 0 of counter
> > + threshold will result in branch monitoring event signaled after every
> > + instruction. By default, it has a value of 127.
> > +
> > +7. Mispredict counting behaviour: /sys/devices/intel-bm/mispred_evt_cnt
> > + Possible values are:
> > + 0 = mispredict events are counted in a window
> > + 1 = mispredict events are counted based on a consecutive occurrence.
> > + By default, it has a value of 0.
>
> you use all those value to configure the event:
>
> event->hw.bm_ctrl = (bm_window_size << BM_WINDOW_SIZE_SHIFT) |
> (bm_guest_disable << BM_GUEST_DISABLE_SHIFT) |
> (bm_lbr_freeze << BM_LBR_FREEZE_SHIFT) |
> (bm_window_cnt_sel << BM_WINDOW_CNT_SEL_SHIFT) |
> (bm_cnt_and_mode << BM_CNT_AND_MODE_SHIFT) |
> BM_ENABLE;
> event->hw.bm_counter_conf = (bm_threshold << BM_THRESHOLD_SHIFT) |
> (bm_mispred_evt_cnt << BM_MISPRED_EVT_CNT_SHIFT) |
> (cfg << BM_EVENT_TYPE_SHIFT) | BM_CNTR_ENABLE;
>
> I wonder you should place this under perf_event_attr::config/config1
> and define them in /sys/devices/intel_bm/format/... like we do for
> cpu pmu
>
> then you could use perf stat -e like: '-e intel_bm/call-ret,threshold=...,lbr_freeze/'
Thanks for the suggestion! I will implement this in the next patch set.
>
> jirka