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Subject[PATCH AUTOSEL 4.14 24/37] perf/x86/intel: Add support/quirk for the MISPREDICT bit on Knights Landing CPUs
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From: Jacek Tomaka <jacek.tomaka@poczta.fm>

[ Upstream commit 16160c1946b702dcfa95ef63389a56deb2f1c7cb ]

Problem: perf did not show branch predicted/mispredicted bit in brstack.

Output of perf -F brstack for profile collected

Before:

0x4fdbcd/0x4fdc03/-/-/-/0
0x45f4c1/0x4fdba0/-/-/-/0
0x45f544/0x45f4bb/-/-/-/0
0x45f555/0x45f53c/-/-/-/0
0x7f66901cc24b/0x45f555/-/-/-/0
0x7f66901cc22e/0x7f66901cc23d/-/-/-/0
0x7f66901cc1ff/0x7f66901cc20f/-/-/-/0
0x7f66901cc1e8/0x7f66901cc1fc/-/-/-/0

After:

0x4fdbcd/0x4fdc03/P/-/-/0
0x45f4c1/0x4fdba0/P/-/-/0
0x45f544/0x45f4bb/P/-/-/0
0x45f555/0x45f53c/P/-/-/0
0x7f66901cc24b/0x45f555/P/-/-/0
0x7f66901cc22e/0x7f66901cc23d/P/-/-/0
0x7f66901cc1ff/0x7f66901cc20f/P/-/-/0
0x7f66901cc1e8/0x7f66901cc1fc/P/-/-/0

Cause:

As mentioned in Software Development Manual vol 3, 17.4.8.1,
IA32_PERF_CAPABILITIES[5:0] indicates the format of the address that is
stored in the LBR stack. Knights Landing reports 1 (LBR_FORMAT_LIP) as
its format. Despite that, registers containing FROM address of the branch,
do have MISPREDICT bit but because of the format indicated in
IA32_PERF_CAPABILITIES[5:0], LBR did not read MISPREDICT bit.

Solution:

Teach LBR about above Knights Landing quirk and make it read MISPREDICT bit.

Signed-off-by: Jacek Tomaka <jacek.tomaka@poczta.fm>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180802013830.10600-1-jacekt@dugeo.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@microsoft.com>
---
arch/x86/events/intel/lbr.c | 4 ++++
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/x86/events/intel/lbr.c b/arch/x86/events/intel/lbr.c
index cf372b90557e..81fe5047c699 100644
--- a/arch/x86/events/intel/lbr.c
+++ b/arch/x86/events/intel/lbr.c
@@ -1230,4 +1230,8 @@ void intel_pmu_lbr_init_knl(void)

x86_pmu.lbr_sel_mask = LBR_SEL_MASK;
x86_pmu.lbr_sel_map = snb_lbr_sel_map;
+
+ /* Knights Landing does have MISPREDICT bit */
+ if (x86_pmu.intel_cap.lbr_format == LBR_FORMAT_LIP)
+ x86_pmu.intel_cap.lbr_format = LBR_FORMAT_EIP_FLAGS;
}
--
2.17.1
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