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Commit 7aa345d8 authored by Madhavan Srinivasan's avatar Madhavan Srinivasan Committed by Michael Ellerman
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powerpc/perf: Update default sdar_mode value for power9



Commit 20dd4c62 ('powerpc/perf: Fix SDAR_MODE value for continous
sampling on Power9') set the default sdar_mode value in MMCRA[SDAR_MODE]
to be used as 0b01 (Update on TLB miss). And this value is set if sdar_mode
from event is zero, or we are in continous sampling mode in power9 dd1.

But it is preferred to have the sdar_mode value for power9 as
0b10 (Update on dcache miss) for better sampling updates instead
of 0b01 (Update on TLB miss).

From Anton:

Using a bandwidth test case with a 1MB footprint, I profiled cycles and
chose TLB updates of the SDAR:

  $ perf record -d -e r000400000000001E:u ./bw2001 1M
                        ^
                        SDAR TLB

  $ perf report -D | grep PERF_RECORD_SAMPLE | sed 's/.*addr: //' | sort -u | wc -l
  4

  I get 4 unique addresses. If I ran with dcache misses:

  $ perf record -d -e r000800000000001E:u ./bw2001 1M
                        ^
                        SDAR dcache miss

  $ perf report -D|grep PERF_RECORD_SAMPLE| sed 's/.*addr: //'|sort -u | wc -l
  5217

I get 5217 unique addresses. No surprises here, but it does show why
TLB misses is the wrong event to default to - we get very little useful
information out of it.

Signed-off-by: default avatarMadhavan Srinivasan <maddy@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: default avatarAnton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarMichael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
parent 754f0309
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@@ -99,7 +99,7 @@ static void mmcra_sdar_mode(u64 event, unsigned long *mmcra)
		else if (!cpu_has_feature(CPU_FTR_POWER9_DD1) && p9_SDAR_MODE(event))
			*mmcra |=  p9_SDAR_MODE(event) << MMCRA_SDAR_MODE_SHIFT;
		else
			*mmcra |= MMCRA_SDAR_MODE_TLB;
			*mmcra |= MMCRA_SDAR_MODE_DCACHE;
	} else
		*mmcra |= MMCRA_SDAR_MODE_TLB;
}
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@@ -247,6 +247,7 @@
#define MMCRA_SDAR_MODE_SHIFT		42
#define MMCRA_SDAR_MODE_TLB		(1ull << MMCRA_SDAR_MODE_SHIFT)
#define MMCRA_SDAR_MODE_NO_UPDATES	~(0x3ull << MMCRA_SDAR_MODE_SHIFT)
#define MMCRA_SDAR_MODE_DCACHE		(2ull << MMCRA_SDAR_MODE_SHIFT)
#define MMCRA_IFM_SHIFT			30
#define MMCRA_THR_CTR_MANT_SHIFT	19
#define MMCRA_THR_CTR_MANT_MASK		0x7Ful