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

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On Thu, Jan 18, 2018 at 11:37:37AM +0100, Andrew Jones wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 18, 2018 at 01:09:58PM +0300, Yury Norov wrote:
> > 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?
> 
> We frequently take some shortcuts in kvm-unit-tests, using busy loops and
> volatile globals for synchronization, trying to keep things as simple as
> possible. I'm ok with the ipi_* synchronization variables being volatile,
> but agree the other two don't need to be.
> 
> > 
> > > +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.
> 
> The counter (cntpct_el0) ticks that fast? We could start with picoseconds
> if necessary.
> 
> > 
> > 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?
> 
> We're not looking at the CPU cycles, we're looking at counter ticks.
> Indeed we could rename cycles to ticks everywhere to make that more
> explicit.

Ah, I don't say that counter ticks at CPU frequency on TX2, or
something like that. I was probably confused by name. But switching to
picoseconds, or even femtoseconds sounds reasonable anyway.

Yury
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