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    Subject[RESEND PATCH V3 0/8] TopDown metrics support for Icelake
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    From: Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com>

    Icelake has support for measuring the level 1 TopDown metrics
    directly in hardware. This is implemented by an additional METRICS
    register, and a new Fixed Counter 3 that measures pipeline SLOTS.

    Four TopDown metric events as separate perf events, which map to
    internal METRICS register, are exposed. They are topdown-retiring,
    topdown-bad-spec, topdown-fe-bound and topdown-be-bound.
    Those events do not exist in hardware, but can be allocated by the
    scheduler. The value of TopDown metric events can be calculated by
    multiplying the METRICS (percentage) register with SLOTS fixed counter.

    New in Icelake
    - Do not require generic counters. This allows to collect TopDown always
    in addition to other events.
    - Measuring TopDown per thread/process instead of only per core

    Limitation
    - To get accurate result and avoid reading the METRICS register multiple
    times, the TopDown metrics events and SLOTS event have to be in the
    same group.
    - METRICS and SLOTS registers have to be cleared after each read by SW.
    That is to prevent the lose of precision and a known side effect of
    METRICS register.
    - Cannot do sampling read SLOTS and TopDown metric events

    Please refer SDM Vol3, 18.3.9.3 Performance Metrics for the details of
    TopDown metrics.

    Changes since V2:
    - Rebase on top of v5.3-rc1

    Key changes since V1:
    - Remove variables for reg_idx and enabled_events[] array.
    The reg_idx can be calculated by idx in runtime.
    Using existing active_mask to replace enabled_events.
    - Choose value 47 for the fixed index of BTS.
    - Support OVF_PERF_METRICS overflow bit in PMI handler
    - Drops the caching mechanism and related variables
    New mechanism is to update all active slots/metrics events for the
    first slots/metrics events in a group. For each group reading, it
    still only read the slots/perf_metrics MSR once
    - Disable PMU for read of topdown events to avoid the NMI issue
    - Move RDPMC support to a separate patch
    - Using event=0x00,umask=0x1X for topdown metrics events
    - Drop the patch which add REMOVE transaction
    We can indicate x86_pmu_stop() by checking
    (event && !test_bit(event->hw.idx, cpuc->active_mask)),
    which is a good place to save the slots/metrics MSR value

    Andi Kleen (2):
    perf, tools, stat: Support new per thread TopDown metrics
    perf, tools: Add documentation for topdown metrics

    Kan Liang (6):
    perf/x86/intel: Set correct mask for TOPDOWN.SLOTS
    perf/x86/intel: Basic support for metrics counters
    perf/x86/intel: Support hardware TopDown metrics
    perf/x86/intel: Support per thread RDPMC TopDown metrics
    perf/x86/intel: Export TopDown events for Icelake
    perf/x86/intel: Disable sampling read slots and topdown

    arch/x86/events/core.c | 35 ++-
    arch/x86/events/intel/core.c | 362 ++++++++++++++++++++++++-
    arch/x86/events/perf_event.h | 33 +++
    arch/x86/include/asm/msr-index.h | 3 +
    arch/x86/include/asm/perf_event.h | 54 +++-
    include/linux/perf_event.h | 3 +
    tools/perf/Documentation/perf-stat.txt | 9 +-
    tools/perf/Documentation/topdown.txt | 223 +++++++++++++++
    tools/perf/builtin-stat.c | 24 ++
    tools/perf/util/stat-shadow.c | 89 ++++++
    tools/perf/util/stat.c | 4 +
    tools/perf/util/stat.h | 8 +
    12 files changed, 827 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-)
    create mode 100644 tools/perf/Documentation/topdown.txt

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