Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755064AbdCGMpJ (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Mar 2017 07:45:09 -0500 Received: from mx0a-001b2d01.pphosted.com ([148.163.156.1]:45768 "EHLO mx0a-001b2d01.pphosted.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754576AbdCGMpE (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Mar 2017 07:45:04 -0500 Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/6] powerpc/perf: Define big-endian version of perf_mem_data_src To: Peter Zijlstra References: <1488796993-25495-1-git-send-email-maddy@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <1488796993-25495-2-git-send-email-maddy@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <20170306112228.GZ6515@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net> Cc: mpe@ellerman.id.au, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, Sukadev Bhattiprolu , Ingo Molnar , Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo , Alexander Shishkin , Wang Nan , Alexei Starovoitov , Stephane Eranian From: Madhavan Srinivasan Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2017 15:28:17 +0530 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.7.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20170306112228.GZ6515@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-TM-AS-MML: disable X-Content-Scanned: Fidelis XPS MAILER x-cbid: 17030709-0016-0000-0000-00000222BB51 X-IBM-AV-DETECTION: SAVI=unused REMOTE=unused XFE=unused x-cbparentid: 17030709-0017-0000-0000-0000068F5E92 Message-Id: <2fc7e466-1675-ef27-b820-ef33ed0be7da@linux.vnet.ibm.com> X-Proofpoint-Virus-Version: vendor=fsecure engine=2.50.10432:,, definitions=2017-03-07_06:,, signatures=0 X-Proofpoint-Spam-Details: rule=outbound_notspam policy=outbound score=0 spamscore=0 suspectscore=0 malwarescore=0 phishscore=0 adultscore=0 bulkscore=0 classifier=spam adjust=0 reason=mlx scancount=1 engine=8.0.1-1702020001 definitions=main-1703070085 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 10170 Lines: 226 On Monday 06 March 2017 04:52 PM, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > On Mon, Mar 06, 2017 at 04:13:08PM +0530, Madhavan Srinivasan wrote: >> From: Sukadev Bhattiprolu >> >> perf_mem_data_src is an union that is initialized via the ->val field >> and accessed via the bitmap fields. For this to work on big endian >> platforms, we also need a big-endian represenation of perf_mem_data_src. > Doesn't this break interpreting the data on a different endian machine? IIUC, we will need this patch to not to break the interpreting data on a different endian machine. Data collected from power8 LE/BE guests with this patchset applied. Kindly correct me if I missed your question here. With this patchset applied, perf.data from a power8 BigEndian guest: ============================================================== $ sudo ./perf record -d -e mem_access ls [ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ] [ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.007 MB perf.data (8 samples) ] $ sudo ./perf report --mem-mode --stdio # To display the perf.data header info, please use --header/--header-only options. # # # Total Lost Samples: 0 # # Samples: 8 of event 'mem_access' # Total weight : 8 # Sort order : local_weight,mem,sym,dso,symbol_daddr,dso_daddr,snoop,tlb,locked # # Overhead Local Weight Memory access Symbol Shared Object Data Symbol Data Object Snoop TLB access Locked # ........ ............ ........................ ........................... ................ ...................................... .................................. ............ ...................... ...... # 25.00% 0 L2 hit [H] 0xc00000000000c910 [unknown] [H] 0xc000000f170e5310 [unknown] N/A N/A No 12.50% 0 L2 hit [k] .idle_cpu [kernel.vmlinux] [k] __per_cpu_offset+0x68 [kernel.vmlinux].data..read_mostly N/A N/A No 12.50% 0 L2 hit [H] 0xc00000000000ca58 [unknown] [H] 0xc000000f170e5200 [unknown] N/A N/A No 12.50% 0 L3 hit [k] .copypage_power7 [kernel.vmlinux] [k] 0xc00000002f6fc600 [kernel.vmlinux].bss N/A N/A No 12.50% 0 L3 hit [k] .copypage_power7 [kernel.vmlinux] [k] 0xc00000003f8b1980 [kernel.vmlinux].bss N/A N/A No 12.50% 0 Local RAM hit [k] ._raw_spin_lock_irqsave [kernel.vmlinux] [k] 0xc000000033b5bdf4 [kernel.vmlinux].bss Miss N/A No 12.50% 0 Remote Cache (1 hop) hit [k] .perf_iterate_ctx [kernel.vmlinux] [k] 0xc000000000e88648 [kernel.vmlinux] HitM N/A No perf report from power8 LittleEndian guest (with this patch applied to perf tool): ================================================================================== $ ./perf report --mem-mode --stdio -i perf.data.p8be.withpatch No kallsyms or vmlinux with build-id ca8a1a9d4b62b2a67ee01050afb1dfa03565a655 was found /boot/vmlinux with build id ca8a1a9d4b62b2a67ee01050afb1dfa03565a655 not found, continuing without symbols No kallsyms or vmlinux with build-id ca8a1a9d4b62b2a67ee01050afb1dfa03565a655 was found /boot/vmlinux with build id ca8a1a9d4b62b2a67ee01050afb1dfa03565a655 not found, continuing without symbols # To display the perf.data header info, please use --header/--header-only options. # # # Total Lost Samples: 0 # # Samples: 8 of event 'mem_access' # Total weight : 8 # Sort order : local_weight,mem,sym,dso,symbol_daddr,dso_daddr,snoop,tlb,locked # # Overhead Local Weight Memory access Symbol Shared Object Data Symbol Data Object Snoop TLB access Locked # ........ ............ ........................ ...................... ................ ...................... ................ ............ ...................... ...... # 25.00% 0 L2 hit [H] 0xc00000000000c910 [unknown] [H] 0xc000000f170e5310 [unknown] N/A N/A No 12.50% 0 L2 hit [k] 0xc0000000000f4d0c [kernel.vmlinux] [k] 0xc000000000f2dac8 [kernel.vmlinux] N/A N/A No 12.50% 0 L2 hit [H] 0xc00000000000ca58 [unknown] [H] 0xc000000f170e5200 [unknown] N/A N/A No 12.50% 0 L3 hit [k] 0xc00000000006b560 [kernel.vmlinux] [k] 0xc00000002f6fc600 [kernel.vmlinux] N/A N/A No 12.50% 0 L3 hit [k] 0xc00000000006b560 [kernel.vmlinux] [k] 0xc00000003f8b1980 [kernel.vmlinux] N/A N/A No 12.50% 0 Local RAM hit [k] 0xc00000000094ad14 [kernel.vmlinux] [k] 0xc000000033b5bdf4 [kernel.vmlinux] Miss N/A No 12.50% 0 Remote Cache (1 hop) hit [k] 0xc0000000001ce31c [kernel.vmlinux] [k] 0xc000000000e88648 [kernel.vmlinux] HitM N/A No With this patch, perf.data from a power8 LE guest: =================================================== $ sudo ./perf record -d -e mem_access ls [ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ] [ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.010 MB perf.data (6 samples) ] $ sudo ./perf report --mem-mode --stdio # To display the perf.data header info, please use --header/--header-only options. # # # Total Lost Samples: 0 # # Samples: 6 of event 'mem_access' # Total weight : 6 # Sort order : local_weight,mem,sym,dso,symbol_daddr,dso_daddr,snoop,tlb,locked # # Overhead Local Weight Memory access Symbol Shared Object Data Symbol Data Object Snoop TLB access Locked # ........ ............ ........................ ...................... ................ ...................... ................ ............ ...................... ...... # 16.67% 0 L2 hit [.] _init ls [.] 0x000001002ef4dd71 [heap] N/A N/A No 16.67% 0 L2 hit [k] irq_exit [kernel.vmlinux] [k] 0xc0000000ff6e2080 [kernel.vmlinux] N/A N/A No 16.67% 0 L2 hit [H] 0xc0000000000ba210 [unknown] [H] 0xc00000075ce2fe38 [unknown] N/A N/A No 16.67% 0 L2 hit [H] 0xc00000000000bdb0 [unknown] [H] 0xc00000075ce2fee0 [unknown] N/A N/A No 16.67% 0 L2 hit [H] 0xc0000000000bb444 [unknown] [H] 0xc00000075ce30490 [unknown] N/A N/A No 16.67% 0 L3 hit [H] 0x0000000000066524 [unknown] [H] 0xc0000000014e0000 [unknown] N/A N/A No perf report from power7 BE guest(with this patch applied to perf tool): ========================================================================= $ ./perf report --mem-mode --stdio No kallsyms or vmlinux with build-id 06240a7589956e7d388bdffdab9f7f138834fa81 was found /lib/modules/4.10.0-rc5+/build/vmlinux with build id 06240a7589956e7d388bdffdab9f7f138834fa81 not found, continuing without symbols No kallsyms or vmlinux with build-id 06240a7589956e7d388bdffdab9f7f138834fa81 was found /lib/modules/4.10.0-rc5+/build/vmlinux with build id 06240a7589956e7d388bdffdab9f7f138834fa81 not found, continuing without symbols /usr/bin/ls with build id cf69c39cf0d28e5be86c03de5c556e3ce8d6ce27 not found, continuing without symbols # To display the perf.data header info, please use --header/--header-only options. # # # Total Lost Samples: 0 # # Samples: 6 of event 'mem_access' # Total weight : 6 # Sort order : local_weight,mem,sym,dso,symbol_daddr,dso_daddr,snoop,tlb,locked # # Overhead Local Weight Memory access Symbol Shared Object Data Symbol Data Object Snoop TLB access Locked # ........ ............ ........................ ...................... ................ ...................... ................ ............ ...................... ...... # 16.67% 0 L2 hit [k] 0xc0000000000d3cc8 [kernel.vmlinux] [k] 0xc0000000ff6e2080 [kernel.vmlinux] N/A N/A No 16.67% 0 L2 hit [.] 0x0000000000012ba8 ls [.] 0x000001002ef4dd71 [heap] N/A N/A No 16.67% 0 L2 hit [H] 0xc0000000000ba210 [unknown] [H] 0xc00000075ce2fe38 [unknown] N/A N/A No 16.67% 0 L2 hit [H] 0xc00000000000bdb0 [unknown] [H] 0xc00000075ce2fee0 [unknown] N/A N/A No 16.67% 0 L2 hit [H] 0xc0000000000bb444 [unknown] [H] 0xc00000075ce30490 [unknown] N/A N/A No 16.67% 0 L3 hit [H] 0x0000000000066524 [unknown] [H] 0xc0000000014e0000 [unknown] N/A N/A No Maddy >