linux_dsm_epyc7002/arch
Peter Zijlstra f4929bd372 perf, x86: Update/fix Intel Nehalem cache events
Change the Nehalem cache events to use retired memory instruction counters
(similar to Westmere), this greatly improves the provided stats.

Using:

main ()
{
        int i;

        for (i = 0; i < 1000000000; i++) {
                asm("mov (%%rsp), %%rbx;"
                    "mov %%rbx, (%%rsp);" : : : "rbx");
        }
}

We find:

 $ perf stat --repeat 10 -e instructions:u -e l1-dcache-loads:u -e l1-dcache-stores:u ./loop_1b_loads+stores
  Performance counter stats for './loop_1b_loads+stores' (10 runs):
      4,000,081,056 instructions:u           #      0.000 IPC ( +-   0.000% )
      4,999,502,846 l1-dcache-loads:u          ( +-   0.008% )
      1,000,034,832 l1-dcache-stores:u         ( +-   0.000% )
         1.565184942  seconds time elapsed   ( +-   0.005% )

The 5b is surprising - we'd expect 1b:

 $ perf stat --repeat 10 -e instructions:u -e r10b:u -e l1-dcache-stores:u ./loop_1b_loads+stores
  Performance counter stats for './loop_1b_loads+stores' (10 runs):
      4,000,081,054 instructions:u           #      0.000 IPC ( +-   0.000% )
      1,000,021,961 r10b:u                     ( +-   0.000% )
      1,000,030,951 l1-dcache-stores:u         ( +-   0.000% )
         1.565055422  seconds time elapsed   ( +-   0.003% )

Which this patch thus fixes.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Lin Ming <ming.m.lin@intel.com>
Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-q9rtru7b7840tws75xzboapv@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-04-22 13:50:27 +02:00
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alpha alpha: Fix uninitialized value in read_persistent_clock. 2011-04-17 14:41:30 -07:00
arm Merge branch 'fixes' of master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-arm 2011-04-20 17:40:45 -07:00
avr32 avr32: add ATAG_BOARDINFO 2011-04-13 15:46:59 +02:00
blackfin Blackfin: SMP: fix cache flush loop 2011-04-13 19:34:06 -04:00
cris Fix common misspellings 2011-03-31 11:26:23 -03:00
frv Fix common misspellings 2011-03-31 11:26:23 -03:00
h8300 genirq: Remove the now obsolete config options and select statements 2011-03-30 14:13:23 +02:00
ia64 Merge branch 'for-linus2' of git://git.profusion.mobi/users/lucas/linux-2.6 2011-04-07 11:14:49 -07:00
m32r Fix common misspellings 2011-03-31 11:26:23 -03:00
m68k m68k,m68knommu: Wire up name_to_handle_at, open_by_handle_at, clock_adjtime, syncfs 2011-04-12 19:02:03 -07:00
microblaze usb: Fix Kconfig unmet dependencies for Microblaze EHCI 2011-04-13 15:43:59 -07:00
mips Fix common misspellings 2011-03-31 11:26:23 -03:00
mn10300 Fix common misspellings 2011-03-31 11:26:23 -03:00
parisc Fix common misspellings 2011-03-31 11:26:23 -03:00
powerpc powerpc/powermac: Build fix with SMP and CPU hotplug 2011-04-18 15:46:35 +10:00
s390 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git390.marist.edu/pub/scm/linux-2.6 2011-04-08 07:36:14 -07:00
score Fix common misspellings 2011-03-31 11:26:23 -03:00
sh Merge branch 'fbdev-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lethal/fbdev-2.6 2011-04-07 12:49:17 -07:00
sparc Merge branch 'for-linus2' of git://git.profusion.mobi/users/lucas/linux-2.6 2011-04-07 11:14:49 -07:00
tile Fix common misspellings 2011-03-31 11:26:23 -03:00
um um: disable CONFIG_CMPXCHG_LOCAL 2011-04-14 16:06:56 -07:00
unicore32 Merge branch 'for-linus2' of git://git.profusion.mobi/users/lucas/linux-2.6 2011-04-07 11:14:49 -07:00
x86 perf, x86: Update/fix Intel Nehalem cache events 2011-04-22 13:50:27 +02:00
xtensa Fix common misspellings 2011-03-31 11:26:23 -03:00
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Kconfig oprofile, s390: Cleanups 2011-03-16 14:30:40 +01:00