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perf/x86/amd/ibs: Fix sample bias for dispatched micro-ops
authorKim Phillips <kim.phillips@amd.com>
Mon, 26 Aug 2019 19:57:30 +0000 (14:57 -0500)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Sat, 21 Sep 2019 05:15:41 +0000 (07:15 +0200)
commitc607026c28f1de0b2523022b0be4eb20a6554114
treea353b212ca938f3a93d69c979b55c60f658596cf
parent2bb28f30f7995e1be8d0cf2a10c25c33419c92fe
perf/x86/amd/ibs: Fix sample bias for dispatched micro-ops

[ Upstream commit 0f4cd769c410e2285a4e9873a684d90423f03090 ]

When counting dispatched micro-ops with cnt_ctl=1, in order to prevent
sample bias, IBS hardware preloads the least significant 7 bits of
current count (IbsOpCurCnt) with random values, such that, after the
interrupt is handled and counting resumes, the next sample taken
will be slightly perturbed.

The current count bitfield is in the IBS execution control h/w register,
alongside the maximum count field.

Currently, the IBS driver writes that register with the maximum count,
leaving zeroes to fill the current count field, thereby overwriting
the random bits the hardware preloaded for itself.

Fix the driver to actually retain and carry those random bits from the
read of the IBS control register, through to its write, instead of
overwriting the lower current count bits with zeroes.

Tested with:

perf record -c 100001 -e ibs_op/cnt_ctl=1/pp -a -C 0 taskset -c 0 <workload>

'perf annotate' output before:

 15.70  65:   addsd     %xmm0,%xmm1
 17.30        add       $0x1,%rax
 15.88        cmp       %rdx,%rax
              je        82
 17.32  72:   test      $0x1,%al
              jne       7c
  7.52        movapd    %xmm1,%xmm0
  5.90        jmp       65
  8.23  7c:   sqrtsd    %xmm1,%xmm0
 12.15        jmp       65

'perf annotate' output after:

 16.63  65:   addsd     %xmm0,%xmm1
 16.82        add       $0x1,%rax
 16.81        cmp       %rdx,%rax
              je        82
 16.69  72:   test      $0x1,%al
              jne       7c
  8.30        movapd    %xmm1,%xmm0
  8.13        jmp       65
  8.24  7c:   sqrtsd    %xmm1,%xmm0
  8.39        jmp       65

Tested on Family 15h and 17h machines.

Machines prior to family 10h Rev. C don't have the RDWROPCNT capability,
and have the IbsOpCurCnt bitfield reserved, so this patch shouldn't
affect their operation.

It is unknown why commit db98c5faf8cb ("perf/x86: Implement 64-bit
counter support for IBS") ignored the lower 4 bits of the IbsOpCurCnt
field; the number of preloaded random bits has always been 7, AFAICT.

Signed-off-by: Kim Phillips <kim.phillips@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: "Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo" <acme@kernel.org>
Cc: <x86@kernel.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: "Borislav Petkov" <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: "Namhyung Kim" <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190826195730.30614-1-kim.phillips@amd.com
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
arch/x86/events/amd/ibs.c
arch/x86/include/asm/perf_event.h