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| author | Jacek Tomaka | 2018-08-02 09:38:30 +0800 |
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| committer | Ingo Molnar | 2018-09-10 10:03:01 +0200 |
| commit | 16160c1946b702dcfa95ef63389a56deb2f1c7cb (patch) | |
| tree | 03556694d81fa877ab41ff5bc7dec2a0649a44d1 /arch/nios2 | |
| parent | fa94351b56d64208ce45c19ec0d4dc711074e607 (diff) | |
perf/x86/intel: Add support/quirk for the MISPREDICT bit on Knights Landing CPUs
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>
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