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From:   Anju T Sudhakar <anju@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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Subject: [PATCH v3 0/5] powerpc/perf: IMC trace-mode support
Date:   Thu,  7 Feb 2019 12:33:07 +0530
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IMC (In-Memory collection counters) is a hardware monitoring facility      
that collects large number of hardware performance events.                 
POWER9 support two modes for IMC which are the Accumulation mode and       
Trace mode. In Accumulation mode, event counts are accumulated in system   
Memory. Hypervisor then reads the posted counts periodically or when       
requested. In IMC Trace mode, event counted is fixed for cycles and on     
each overflow, hardware snapshots the program counter along with other     
details and writes into memory pointed by LDBAR(ring buffer memory,        
hardware wraps around). LDBAR has bit which indicates the IMC trace-mode.               
								    
Trace-IMC Implementation:                                                  
--------------------------                                                 
To enable trace-imc, we need to                                            
								    
* Add trace node in the DTS file for power9, so that the new trace node can
be discovered by the kernel.                                               
								    
Information included in the DTS file are as follows, (a snippet from      
the ima-catalog)                                                           
								    
TRACE_IMC: trace-events {                                                  
     #address-cells = <0x1>;                                        
     #size-cells = <0x1>;                                           
     event@10200000 {                                               
	 event-name = "cycles" ;                                    
	 reg = <0x10200000 0x8>;                                    
	 desc = "Reference cycles" ;                                
     };                                                             
 };                                                                 
 trace@0 {                                                          
	 compatible = "ibm,imc-counters";                           
	 events-prefix = "trace_";                                  
	 reg = <0x0 0x8>;                                           
	 events = < &TRACE_IMC >;                                   
	 type = <0x2>;                                              
	 size = <0x40000>;                                          
 };                                                                 
								    
OP-BUILD changes needed to include the "trace node" is already pulled in   
to the ima-catalog repo.                                                   
								    
ps://github.com/open-power/op-build/commit/d3e75dc26d1283d7d5eb444bff1ec9e40d5dfc07
								    
* Enchance the opal_imc_counters_* calls to support this new trace mode    
in imc. Add support to initialize the trace-mode scom.                     
								    
TRACE_IMC_SCOM bit representation:                                         
								    
0:1     : SAMPSEL                                                          
2:33    : CPMC_LOAD                                                        
34:40   : CPMC1SEL                                                         
41:47   : CPMC2SEL                                                         
48:50   : BUFFERSIZE                                                       
51:63   : RESERVED                                                         
								    
CPMC_LOAD contains the sampling duration. SAMPSEL and CPMC*SEL determines  
the event to count. BUFFRSIZE indicates the memory range. On each overflow,
hardware snapshots program counter along with other details and update the 
memory and reloads the CMPC_LOAD value for the next sampling duration.     
IMC hardware does not support exceptions, so it quietly wraps around if    
memory buffer reaches the end.                                             

Link to the skiboot patches to enhance the opal_imc_counters_* calls:
https://lists.ozlabs.org/pipermail/skiboot/2018-December/012878.html
https://lists.ozlabs.org/pipermail/skiboot/2018-December/012879.html
https://lists.ozlabs.org/pipermail/skiboot/2018-December/012882.html
https://lists.ozlabs.org/pipermail/skiboot/2018-December/012880.html
https://lists.ozlabs.org/pipermail/skiboot/2018-December/012881.html
https://lists.ozlabs.org/pipermail/skiboot/2018-December/012883.html

* Set LDBAR spr to enable imc-trace mode.

LDBAR Layout:

0     : Enable/Disable
1     : 0 -> Accumulation Mode
      	1 -> Trace Mode
2:3   : Reserved
4-6   : PB scope
7     : Reserved
8:50  : Counter Address
51:63 : Reserved

----------------                                                           
								    
Key benefit of imc trace-mode is, each sample record contains the address
pointer along with other information. So that, we can profile the IP
without interrupting the application.
								    
Performance data using 'perf top' with and without trace-imc event:        
								    
When the application is monitored with trace-imc event, we dont take any   
PMI interrupts.                                                            
								    
PMI interrupts count when `perf top` command is executed without trac-imc event.
								    
# perf top                                      
12.53%  [kernel]       [k] arch_cpu_idle                               
11.32%  [kernel]       [k] rcu_idle_enter                              
10.76%  [kernel]       [k] __next_timer_interrupt                      
 9.49%  [kernel]       [k] find_next_bit                               
 8.06%  [kernel]       [k] rcu_dynticks_eqs_exit                       
 7.82%  [kernel]       [k] do_idle                                     
 5.71%  [kernel]       [k] tick_nohz_idle_stop_tic                     
     [-----------------------]                                      
# cat /proc/interrupts  (a snippet from the output)                        
9944      1072        804        804       1644        804       1306      
804        804        804        804        804        804        804      
804        804       1961       1602        804        804       1258      
[-----------------------------------------------------------------]        
803        803        803        803        803        803        803      
803        803        803        803        804        804        804     
804        804        804        804        804        804        803     
803        803        803        803        803       1306        803     
803   Performance monitoring interrupts                                   
								    
								    
`perf top` with trace-imc (right after 'perf top' without trace-imc event):
								    
# perf top -e trace_imc/trace_cycles/                                      
12.50%  [kernel]          [k] arch_cpu_idle                            
11.81%  [kernel]          [k] __next_timer_interrupt                   
11.22%  [kernel]          [k] rcu_idle_enter                           
10.25%  [kernel]          [k] find_next_bit                            
 7.91%  [kernel]          [k] do_idle                                  
 7.69%  [kernel]          [k] rcu_dynticks_eqs_exit                    
 5.20%  [kernel]          [k] tick_nohz_idle_stop_tick                 
     [-----------------------]                                      
								    
# cat /proc/interrupts (a snippet from the output)                         
								    
9944      1072        804        804       1644        804       1306      
804        804        804        804        804        804        804      
804        804       1961       1602        804        804       1258      
[-----------------------------------------------------------------]        
803        803        803        803        803        803        803      
803        803        803        804        804        804        804
804        804        804        804        804        804        803     
803        803        803        803        803       1306        803     
803   Performance monitoring interrupts                                   
								    
The PMI interrupts count remains the same.  

Changelog:

From v2 -> v3
--------------

* Redefined the event format for trace-imc.

Suggestions/comments are welcome.


Anju T Sudhakar (4):
  powerpc/include: Add data structures and macros for IMC trace mode
  powerpc/perf: Rearrange setting of ldbar for thread-imc
  powerpc/perf: Trace imc events detection and cpuhotplug
  powerpc/perf: Trace imc PMU functions

Madhavan Srinivasan (1):
  powerpc/perf: Add privileged access check for thread_imc

 arch/powerpc/include/asm/imc-pmu.h        |  39 +++
 arch/powerpc/include/asm/opal-api.h       |   1 +
 arch/powerpc/perf/imc-pmu.c               | 319 +++++++++++++++++++++-
 arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/opal-imc.c |   3 +
 include/linux/cpuhotplug.h                |   1 +
 5 files changed, 351 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)

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