From ec75a71634dabe439db91c1ef51d5099f4493808 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ingo Molnar Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2011 11:51:41 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] perf events, x86: Work around the Nehalem AAJ80 erratum On Nehalem CPUs the retired branch-misses event can be completely bogus, when there are no branch-misses occuring. When there are a lot of branch misses then the count is pretty accurate. Still, this leaves us with an event that over-counts a lot. Detect this erratum and work it around by using BR_MISP_EXEC.ANY events. These will also count speculated branches but still it's a lot more precise in practice than the architectural event. Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Cc: Frederic Weisbecker Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-yyfg0bxo9jsqxd6a0ovfny27@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_intel.c | 16 ++++++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_intel.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_intel.c index 9194b06..9ae4a2a 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_intel.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_intel.c @@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ struct intel_percore { /* * Intel PerfMon, used on Core and later. */ -static const u64 intel_perfmon_event_map[] = +static u64 intel_perfmon_event_map[PERF_COUNT_HW_MAX] __read_mostly = { [PERF_COUNT_HW_CPU_CYCLES] = 0x003c, [PERF_COUNT_HW_INSTRUCTIONS] = 0x00c0, @@ -1308,7 +1308,7 @@ static void intel_clovertown_quirks(void) * AJ106 could possibly be worked around by not allowing LBR * usage from PEBS, including the fixup. * AJ68 could possibly be worked around by always programming - * a pebs_event_reset[0] value and coping with the lost events. + * a pebs_event_reset[0] value and coping with the lost events. * * But taken together it might just make sense to not enable PEBS on * these chips. @@ -1412,6 +1412,18 @@ static __init int intel_pmu_init(void) x86_pmu.percore_constraints = intel_nehalem_percore_constraints; x86_pmu.enable_all = intel_pmu_nhm_enable_all; x86_pmu.extra_regs = intel_nehalem_extra_regs; + + if (ebx & 0x40) { + /* + * Erratum AAJ80 detected, we work it around by using + * the BR_MISP_EXEC.ANY event. This will over-count + * branch-misses, but it's still much better than the + * architectural event which is often completely bogus: + */ + intel_perfmon_event_map[PERF_COUNT_HW_BRANCH_MISSES] = 0x7f89; + + pr_cont("erratum AAJ80 worked around, "); + } pr_cont("Nehalem events, "); break; -- 2.7.4