Re: [PATCH v3 2/2] arm64: add micro test

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On Wed, Jan 17, 2018 at 04:46:36PM -0500, Shih-Wei Li wrote:
> Here we provide the support for measuring various micro level
> operations on arm64. We iterate each of the tests and output
> their average, minimum and maximum cost in microseconds.
> Instruction barriers were used before taking timestamps to
> avoid out-of-order execution or pipelining from skewing our
> measurements.
> 
> The operations we currently supported and measured are mostly
> self-explanatory by their function name. For IPI, we measured the
> cost of sending IPI from a source VCPU to a target VCPU, until the
> target VCPU receives the IPI.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Shih-Wei Li <shihwei@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Christoffer Dall <cdall@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  arm/Makefile.common |   1 +
>  arm/micro-test.c    | 252 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  arm/unittests.cfg   |   7 ++
>  3 files changed, 260 insertions(+)
>  create mode 100644 arm/micro-test.c
> 
> diff --git a/arm/Makefile.common b/arm/Makefile.common
> index 0a039cf..c7d5c27 100644
> --- a/arm/Makefile.common
> +++ b/arm/Makefile.common
> @@ -16,6 +16,7 @@ tests-common += $(TEST_DIR)/pmu.flat
>  tests-common += $(TEST_DIR)/gic.flat
>  tests-common += $(TEST_DIR)/psci.flat
>  tests-common += $(TEST_DIR)/sieve.flat
> +tests-common += $(TEST_DIR)/micro-test.flat
>  
>  tests-all = $(tests-common) $(tests)
>  all: directories $(tests-all)
> diff --git a/arm/micro-test.c b/arm/micro-test.c
> new file mode 100644
> index 0000000..407ce8b
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/arm/micro-test.c
> @@ -0,0 +1,252 @@
> +/*
> + * Measure the cost of micro level operations.
> + *
> + * Copyright Columbia University
> + * Author: Shih-Wei Li <shihwei@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> + * Author: Christoffer Dall <cdall@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> + *
> + * This work is licensed under the terms of the GNU LGPL, version 2.
> + */
> +#include <asm/gic.h>
> +#include "libcflat.h"
> +#include <util.h>
> +#include <limits.h>
> +
> +static volatile bool ipi_received;
> +static volatile bool ipi_ready;
> +static volatile unsigned int cntfrq;
> +static volatile void *vgic_dist_addr;

Volatiles considered harmful for kernel code. I think it is also correct
for your case:
https://lwn.net/Articles/234017/

I would prefer use readl/writel accessors for interprocessor
communications which guaranties cache synchronization and proper
ordering.

Also, ipi_received and ipi_ready are looking like synchronization
primitives. Did you consider using spinlocks instead?

Also-also, cntfrq is written only once at init. What for you make it
volatile?

> +void (*write_eoir)(u32 irqstat);
> +
> +#define IPI_IRQ		1
> +
> +#define TRIES	(1U << 28)
> +
> +#define MAX_FAILURES	1000
> +
> +/*
> + * The counter may not always start with zero, which means it could
> + * overflow after some period of time.
> + */
> +#define COUNT(c1, c2) \
> +	((c1) > (c2) ? 0 : (c2) - (c1))
> +
> +static uint64_t read_cc(void)
> +{
> +	isb();
> +	return read_sysreg(cntpct_el0);
> +}
> +
> +static void ipi_irq_handler(struct pt_regs *regs __unused)
> +{
> +	u32 ack;
> +	ipi_ready = false;
> +	ipi_received = true;
> +	ack = gic_read_iar();
> +	gic_write_eoir(ack);
> +	ipi_ready = true;
> +}
> +
> +static void ipi_test_secondary_entry(void *data __unused)
> +{
> +	enum vector v = EL1H_IRQ;
> +	install_irq_handler(v, ipi_irq_handler);
> +
> +	gic_enable_defaults();
> +
> +	local_irq_enable(); /* Enter small wait-loop */
> +	ipi_ready = true;
> +	while (true);
> +}
> +
> +static int test_init(void)
> +{
> +	int v;
> +
> +	v = gic_init();
> +	if (v == 2) {
> +		vgic_dist_addr = gicv2_dist_base();
> +		write_eoir = gicv2_write_eoir;
> +	} else if (v == 3) {
> +		vgic_dist_addr = gicv3_dist_base();
> +		write_eoir = gicv3_write_eoir;
> +	} else {
> +		printf("No supported gic present, skipping tests...\n");
> +		return 0;
> +	}
> +
> +	ipi_ready = false;
> +
> +	gic_enable_defaults();
> +	on_cpu_async(1, ipi_test_secondary_entry, 0);
> +
> +	cntfrq = get_cntfrq();
> +	printf("Timer Frequency %d Hz (Output in microseconds)\n", cntfrq);
> +
> +	return 1;
> +}
> +
> +static unsigned long ipi_test(void)
> +{
> +	unsigned int tries = TRIES;
> +	uint64_t c1, c2;
> +
> +	while (!ipi_ready && tries--);
> +	assert(ipi_ready);
> +
> +	ipi_received = false;
> +
> +	c1 = read_cc();
> +
> +	gic_ipi_send_single(IPI_IRQ, 1);
> +
> +	tries = TRIES;
> +	while (!ipi_received && tries--);
> +	assert(ipi_received);
> +
> +	c2 = read_cc();
> +	return COUNT(c1, c2);
> +}
> +
> +static unsigned long hvc_test(void)
> +{
> +	uint64_t c1, c2;
> +
> +	c1 = read_cc();
> +	asm volatile("mov w0, #0x4b000000; hvc #0" ::: "w0");
> +	c2 = read_cc();
> +	return COUNT(c1, c2);
> +}
> +
> +static unsigned long mmio_read_user(void)
> +{
> +	uint64_t c1, c2;
> +	/*
> +	 * FIXME: Read device-id in virtio mmio here. This address
> +	 * needs to be updated in the future if any relevent
> +	 * changes in QEMU test-dev are made.
> +	 */
> +	void *mmio_read_user_addr = (void*) 0x0a000008;

Again, could you rename it? device_id_ptr sounds much better.

> +	c1 = read_cc();
> +	readl(mmio_read_user_addr);
> +	c2 = read_cc();
> +	return COUNT(c1, c2);
> +}
> +
> +static unsigned long mmio_read_vgic(void)
> +{
> +	uint64_t c1, c2;
> +
> +	c1 = read_cc();
> +	readl(vgic_dist_addr + GICD_IIDR);
> +	c2 = read_cc();
> +	return COUNT(c1, c2);
> +}
> +
> +static unsigned long eoi_test(void)
> +{
> +	uint64_t c1, c2;
> +
> +	u32 val = 1023; /* spurious IDs, writes to EOI are ignored */
> +
> +	/* Avoid measuring assert(..) in gic_write_eoir */
> +	c1 = read_cc();
> +	write_eoir(val);
> +	c2 = read_cc();
> +
> +	return COUNT(c1, c2);
> +}
> +
> +struct exit_test {
> +	const char *name;
> +	unsigned long (*test_fn)(void);
> +	bool run;
> +};
> +
> +static struct exit_test tests[] = {
> +	{"hvc",                hvc_test,           true},
> +	{"mmio_read_user",     mmio_read_user,     true},
> +	{"mmio_read_vgic",     mmio_read_vgic,     true},
> +	{"eoi",                eoi_test,           true},
> +	{"ipi",                ipi_test,           true},
> +};
> +
> +static void get_us_output(const char *name,
> +			  unsigned long cycles)
> +{
> +	unsigned int ns_per_cycle = 10^9U / cntfrq;
> +	unsigned int ns, us, us_frac;

'^' is 'xor', you probably mean 1000*1000*1000. And anyway,
ThunderX2 works at ~2GHz, so 10E9/get_cntfrq() is 0 for it.

For CPUs working at 500...1000 MHz, ns_per_cycle is 1,
For CPUs working at 1GHz+ it is 0. What's point in it?

> +	ns =  cycles * ns_per_cycle;
> +	us = ns / 1000;
> +	us_frac = (ns % 1000) / 100;
> +
> +	printf("%s %10d.%d\t", name, us, us_frac);
> +}
> +
> +static void output_result(const char *name,
> +			  unsigned long avg_cycle,
> +			  unsigned long min_cycle,
> +			  unsigned long max_cycle)
> +{
> +	printf("%10s:\t", name);
> +	get_us_output("avg", avg_cycle);
> +	get_us_output("min", min_cycle);
> +	get_us_output("max", max_cycle);
> +	printf("\n");
> +}
> +
> +static void loop_test(struct exit_test *test)
> +{
> +	unsigned long i, iterations = 32;
> +	unsigned long sample, cycles;
> +	unsigned long min = ULONG_MAX, max = 0;
> +	const unsigned long goal = (1ULL << 26);
> +	int failures = 0;
> +
> +	do {
> +		iterations *= 2;
> +		cycles = 0;
> +		i = 0;
> +		while (i < iterations) {
> +			sample = test->test_fn();
> +			if (sample == 0) {
> +				if (failures++ > MAX_FAILURES) {
> +				/*
> +				 * If the cost is smaller than a cycle count for
> +				 * over MAX_FAILURES of times, we simply ignore the test.
> +				 */
> +					printf("%s: Too many cycle count overflows\n",
> +						test->name);

Again, this is not overflow. Printed message does not correspond the
comment. 

Also, why do you think that sample == 0 means fail? I'd rather suspect my
measurement procedure, or if everything is correct, simply take this
result.

Now sample == 0 indicates 2 different cases - too small cost and
overflow. Could you introduce special error code to distinguish
between them?

> +					return;
> +				}
> +				continue;
> +			}
> +			cycles += sample;
> +			if (min > sample)
> +				min = sample;
> +			if (max < sample)
> +				max = sample;
> +			++i;
> +		}
> +	} while (cycles < goal);
> +
> +	output_result(test->name, (cycles / iterations), min, max);	
> +}
> +
> +int main(int argc, char **argv)
> +{
> +	int i, ret;
> +
> +	ret = test_init();
> +	assert(ret);
> +
> +	for (i = 0; i < ARRAY_SIZE(tests); i++) {
> +		if (!tests[i].run)
> +			continue;
> +		loop_test(&tests[i]);
> +	}
> +
> +	return 0;
> +}
> diff --git a/arm/unittests.cfg b/arm/unittests.cfg
> index 44b98cf..5759fa8 100644
> --- a/arm/unittests.cfg
> +++ b/arm/unittests.cfg
> @@ -116,3 +116,10 @@ file = timer.flat
>  groups = timer
>  timeout = 2s
>  arch = arm64
> +
> +# Exit tests
> +[micro-test]
> +file = micro-test.flat
> +smp = 2
> +groups = nodefault,micro-test
> +accel = kvm
> -- 
> 1.9.1
> 
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