Hi Marc,
On 2015/12/7 22:11, Marc Zyngier wrote:
Shannon,
On 03/12/15 06:11, Shannon Zhao wrote:
From: Shannon Zhao <shannon.zhao@xxxxxxxxxx>
This patchset adds guest PMU support for KVM on ARM64. It takes
trap-and-emulate approach. When guest wants to monitor one event, it
will be trapped by KVM and KVM will call perf_event API to create a perf
event and call relevant perf_event APIs to get the count value of event.
Use perf to test this patchset in guest. When using "perf list", it
shows the list of the hardware events and hardware cache events perf
supports. Then use "perf stat -e EVENT" to monitor some event. For
example, use "perf stat -e cycles" to count cpu cycles and
"perf stat -e cache-misses" to count cache misses.
Below are the outputs of "perf stat -r 5 sleep 5" when running in host
and guest.
Host:
Performance counter stats for 'sleep 5' (5 runs):
0.510276 task-clock (msec) # 0.000 CPUs utilized ( +- 1.57% )
1 context-switches # 0.002 M/sec
0 cpu-migrations # 0.000 K/sec
49 page-faults # 0.096 M/sec ( +- 0.77% )
1064117 cycles # 2.085 GHz ( +- 1.56% )
<not supported> stalled-cycles-frontend
<not supported> stalled-cycles-backend
529051 instructions # 0.50 insns per cycle ( +- 0.55% )
<not supported> branches
9894 branch-misses # 19.390 M/sec ( +- 1.70% )
5.000853900 seconds time elapsed ( +- 0.00% )
Guest:
Performance counter stats for 'sleep 5' (5 runs):
0.642456 task-clock (msec) # 0.000 CPUs utilized ( +- 1.81% )
1 context-switches # 0.002 M/sec
0 cpu-migrations # 0.000 K/sec
49 page-faults # 0.076 M/sec ( +- 1.64% )
1322717 cycles # 2.059 GHz ( +- 1.88% )
<not supported> stalled-cycles-frontend
<not supported> stalled-cycles-backend
640944 instructions # 0.48 insns per cycle ( +- 1.10% )
<not supported> branches
10665 branch-misses # 16.600 M/sec ( +- 2.23% )
5.001181452 seconds time elapsed ( +- 0.00% )
Have a cycle counter read test like below in guest and host:
static void test(void)
{
unsigned long count, count1, count2;
count1 = read_cycles();
count++;
count2 = read_cycles();
}
Host:
count1: 3046186213
count2: 3046186347
delta: 134
Guest:
count1: 5645797121
count2: 5645797270
delta: 149
The gap between guest and host is very small. One reason for this I
think is that it doesn't count the cycles in EL2 and host since we add
exclude_hv = 1. So the cycles spent to store/restore registers which
happens at EL2 are not included.
This patchset can be fetched from [1] and the relevant QEMU version for
test can be fetched from [2].
The results of 'perf test' can be found from [3][4].
The results of perf_event_tests test suite can be found from [5][6].
Also, I have tested "perf top" in two VMs and host at the same time. It
works well.
I've commented on more issues I've found. Hopefully you'll be able to
respin this quickly enough, and end-up with a simpler code base (state
duplication is a bit messy).
Ok, will try my best :)
Another thing I have noticed is that you have dropped the vgic changes
that were configuring the interrupt. It feels like they should be
included, and configure the PPI as a LEVEL interrupt.
The reason why I drop that is in upstream code PPIs are LEVEL interrupt
by default which is changed by the arch_timers patches. So is it
necessary to configure it again?
Also, looking at
your QEMU code, you seem to configure the interrupt as EDGE, which is
now how yor emulated HW behaves.
Sorry, the QEMU code is not updated while the version I use for test
locally configures the interrupt as LEVEL. I will push the newest one
tomorrow.
Looking forward to reviewing the next version.
Thanks,
M.
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Shannon
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