When running pmu test on SPR, sometimes the following failure is
reported.
1 <= 0 <= 1000000
FAIL: Intel: llc misses-4
Currently The LLC misses occurring only depends on probability. It's
possible that there is no LLC misses happened in the whole loop(),
especially along with processors have larger and larger cache size just
like what we observed on SPR.
Thus, add clflush instruction into the loop() asm blob and ensure once
LLC miss is triggered at least.
Suggested-by: Jim Mattson <jmattson@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Dapeng Mi <dapeng1.mi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
x86/pmu.c | 43 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------------
1 file changed, 30 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)
diff --git a/x86/pmu.c b/x86/pmu.c
index b764827c1c3d..8fd3db0fbf81 100644
--- a/x86/pmu.c
+++ b/x86/pmu.c
@@ -20,19 +20,21 @@
// Instrustion number of LOOP_ASM code
#define LOOP_INSTRNS 10
-#define LOOP_ASM \
+#define LOOP_ASM(_clflush) \
+ _clflush "\n\t" \
+ "mfence;\n\t" \
"1: mov (%1), %2; add $64, %1;\n\t" \
"nop; nop; nop; nop; nop; nop; nop;\n\t" \
"loop 1b;\n\t"
-/*Enable GLOBAL_CTRL + disable GLOBAL_CTRL instructions */
-#define PRECISE_EXTRA_INSTRNS (2 + 4)
+/*Enable GLOBAL_CTRL + disable GLOBAL_CTRL + clflush/mfence instructions */
+#define PRECISE_EXTRA_INSTRNS (2 + 4 + 2)
#define PRECISE_LOOP_INSTRNS (N * LOOP_INSTRNS + PRECISE_EXTRA_INSTRNS)
#define PRECISE_LOOP_BRANCHES (N)
-#define PRECISE_LOOP_ASM \
+#define PRECISE_LOOP_ASM(_clflush) \
"wrmsr;\n\t" \
"mov %%ecx, %%edi; mov %%ebx, %%ecx;\n\t" \
- LOOP_ASM \
+ LOOP_ASM(_clflush) \
"mov %%edi, %%ecx; xor %%eax, %%eax; xor %%edx, %%edx;\n\t" \
"wrmsr;\n\t"
@@ -72,14 +74,30 @@ char *buf;
static struct pmu_event *gp_events;
static unsigned int gp_events_size;
+#define _loop_asm(_clflush) \
+do { \
+ asm volatile(LOOP_ASM(_clflush) \
+ : "=c"(tmp), "=r"(tmp2), "=r"(tmp3) \
+ : "0"(N), "1"(buf)); \
+} while (0)
+
+#define _precise_loop_asm(_clflush) \
+do { \
+ asm volatile(PRECISE_LOOP_ASM(_clflush) \
+ : "=b"(tmp), "=r"(tmp2), "=r"(tmp3) \
+ : "a"(eax), "d"(edx), "c"(global_ctl), \
+ "0"(N), "1"(buf) \
+ : "edi"); \
+} while (0)
static inline void __loop(void)
{
unsigned long tmp, tmp2, tmp3;
- asm volatile(LOOP_ASM
- : "=c"(tmp), "=r"(tmp2), "=r"(tmp3)
- : "0"(N), "1"(buf));
+ if (this_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_CLFLUSH))
+ _loop_asm("clflush (%1)");
+ else
+ _loop_asm("nop");
}
/*
@@ -96,11 +114,10 @@ static inline void __precise_count_loop(u64 cntrs)
u32 eax = cntrs & (BIT_ULL(32) - 1);
u32 edx = cntrs >> 32;
- asm volatile(PRECISE_LOOP_ASM
- : "=b"(tmp), "=r"(tmp2), "=r"(tmp3)
- : "a"(eax), "d"(edx), "c"(global_ctl),
- "0"(N), "1"(buf)
- : "edi");
+ if (this_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_CLFLUSH))
+ _precise_loop_asm("clflush (%1)");
+ else
+ _precise_loop_asm("nop");
}
static inline void loop(u64 cntrs)
--
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