[PATCH] Fix for supporting nest events on muti socket system
Anju T Sudhakar
anju at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Mon Aug 14 21:42:23 AEST 2017
In a multi node system with discontinuous node id, nest event values
are not showing up properly.That is,
snip from lscpu output:
..
NUMA node0 CPU(s): 0-15
NUMA node8 CPU(s): 16-31
..
Nest event values on such systems are broken:
$./perf stat -e 'nest_powerbus0_imc/PM_PB_CYC/' -C 0-14 -I 1000 sleep 1000
# time counts unit events
1.000294577 30,17,24,42,880 nest_powerbus0_imc/PM_PB_CYC/
2.000528938 29,92,08,53,760 nest_powerbus0_imc/PM_PB_CYC/
3.000713925 29,92,08,00,000 nest_powerbus0_imc/PM_PB_CYC/
4.000901944 29,95,08,63,360 nest_powerbus0_imc/PM_PB_CYC/
5.001089119 29,92,07,92,320 nest_powerbus0_imc/PM_PB_CYC/
6.001276106 29,92,08,11,520 nest_powerbus0_imc/PM_PB_CYC/
$./perf stat -e 'nest_powerbus0_imc/PM_PB_CYC/' -C 16-28 -I 1000 sleep 1000
# time counts unit events
1.000049902 <not supported> nest_powerbus0_imc/PM_PB_CYC/
2.000147269 <not supported> nest_powerbus0_imc/PM_PB_CYC/
3.000219730 <not supported> nest_powerbus0_imc/PM_PB_CYC/
4.000288098 <not supported> nest_powerbus0_imc/PM_PB_CYC/
5.000358716 <not supported> nest_powerbus0_imc/PM_PB_CYC/
6.000435615 <not supported> nest_powerbus0_imc/PM_PB_CYC/
7.000508481 <not supported> nest_powerbus0_imc/PM_PB_CYC/
This is because, when fetching for the reference count, node id is used
as the array index which is not how this is done when initializing the
structure. Patch to fix the same by using the right index to get the
nest_imc_refc.
$./perf stat -e 'nest_powerbus0_imc/PM_PB_CYC/' -C 16-28 -I 1000 sleep 1000
# time counts unit events
1.000241961 26,12,35,28,704 nest_powerbus0_imc/PM_PB_CYC/
2.000451678 25,95,72,48,512 nest_powerbus0_imc/PM_PB_CYC/
3.000634963 25,93,13,96,608 nest_powerbus0_imc/PM_PB_CYC/
4.000821186 25,95,74,38,208 nest_powerbus0_imc/PM_PB_CYC/
5.001005221 25,93,13,30,048 nest_powerbus0_imc/PM_PB_CYC/
Signed-off-by: Anju T Sudhakar <anju at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
---
arch/powerpc/perf/imc-pmu.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/perf/imc-pmu.c b/arch/powerpc/perf/imc-pmu.c
index 46cd912..bbcce29 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/perf/imc-pmu.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/perf/imc-pmu.c
@@ -1064,7 +1064,7 @@ static int init_nest_pmu_ref(void)
*/
for_each_possible_cpu(cpu) {
nid = cpu_to_node(cpu);
- for_each_online_node(i) {
+ for (i = 0; i < num_possible_nodes(); i++) {
if (nest_imc_refc[i].id == nid) {
per_cpu(local_nest_imc_refc, cpu) = &nest_imc_refc[i];
break;
--
2.7.4
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