From 9ab95b0b15a092abb7c3309f3580f572a041f9ab Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ravi Bangoria <ravi.bangoria@amd.com>
Date: Sat, 4 Jun 2022 10:15:12 +0530
Subject: perf record ibs: Warn about sampling period skew

Samples without an L3 miss are discarded and counter is reset with
random value (between 1-15 for fetch PMU and 1-127 for op PMU) when IBS
L3 miss filtering is enabled. This causes a sampling period skew but
there is no way to reconstruct aggregated sampling period. So print a
warning at perf record if user sets l3missonly=1.

Ex:

  # perf record -c 10000 -C 0 -e ibs_op/l3missonly=1/
  WARNING: Hw internally resets sampling period when L3 Miss Filtering is enabled
  and tagged operation does not cause L3 Miss. This causes sampling period skew.

Signed-off-by: Ravi Bangoria <ravi.bangoria@amd.com>
Acked-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Acked-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Ananth Narayan <ananth.narayan@amd.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: James Clark <james.clark@arm.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Kim Phillips <kim.phillips@amd.com>
Cc: Leo Yan <leo.yan@linaro.org>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Robert Richter <rrichter@amd.com>
Cc: Sandipan Das <sandipan.das@amd.com>
Cc: Santosh Shukla <santosh.shukla@amd.com>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: like.xu.linux@gmail.com
Cc: x86@kernel.org
Link: http://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20220604044519.594-2-ravi.bangoria@amd.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
---
 tools/perf/util/evsel.c | 7 +++++++
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)

(limited to 'tools/perf/util/evsel.c')

diff --git a/tools/perf/util/evsel.c b/tools/perf/util/evsel.c
index ce499c5da8d7..8fea51a9cd90 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/evsel.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/evsel.c
@@ -1091,6 +1091,11 @@ void __weak arch_evsel__fixup_new_cycles(struct perf_event_attr *attr __maybe_un
 {
 }
 
+void __weak arch__post_evsel_config(struct evsel *evsel __maybe_unused,
+				    struct perf_event_attr *attr __maybe_unused)
+{
+}
+
 static void evsel__set_default_freq_period(struct record_opts *opts,
 					   struct perf_event_attr *attr)
 {
@@ -1366,6 +1371,8 @@ void evsel__config(struct evsel *evsel, struct record_opts *opts,
 	 */
 	if (evsel__is_dummy_event(evsel))
 		evsel__reset_sample_bit(evsel, BRANCH_STACK);
+
+	arch__post_evsel_config(evsel, attr);
 }
 
 int evsel__set_filter(struct evsel *evsel, const char *filter)
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