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Date:      Sat, 23 Mar 2013 16:28:29 +0100
From:      Oliver Pinter <oliver.pntr@gmail.com>
To:        hiren panchasara <hiren.panchasara@gmail.com>
Cc:        Davide Italiano <davide@freebsd.org>, freebsd-current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>, Jim Harris <jim.harris@gmail.com>
Subject:   Re: hwpmc support for haswell
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On 3/23/13, hiren panchasara <hiren.panchasara@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 6:26 PM, hiren panchasara
> <hiren.panchasara@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 5:47 PM, Davide Italiano <davide@freebsd.org>
>> wrote:
>>> On Fri, Feb 1, 2013 at 2:17 AM, hiren panchasara
>>> <hiren.panchasara@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> I've prepared a patch to add core and uncore events support for
>>>> haswell processor.
>>>> I do not have the hardware to test this. It applies cleanly and
>>>> compiles fine though.
>>>>
>>>> http://www.strugglingcoder.info/patches/hwpmc_hw.txt
>>>>
>>>> This is initial version of patch and manpage is still missing. I will
>>>> add it in a few days.
>>>>
>>>> Any help in testing is appreciated.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Hiren
>>>
>>> It seems Intel won't release this before June (at least to my
>>> knowledge).
>>> I would claim it'll be difficult to real test this before that date
>>> unless someone has prerelease hardware.
>>
>> Indeed. I've posted it here just to let larger audience know and avoid
>> possible duplicate work.
>>
>> We will wait till we get the hardware to test with.
>
> I recently got a ref haswell box to play with.
>
> Initial dmesg looks like this:
>
> CPU: Genuine Intel(R) CPU 0000 @ 2.60GHz (2594.05-MHz K8-class CPU)
>   Origin = "GenuineIntel"  Id = 0x306c2  Family = 0x6  Model = 0x3c
> Stepping = 2
>
> Features=0xbfebfbff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CLFLUSH,DTS,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,HTT,TM,PBE>
>
> Features2=0x7ffafbff<SSE3,PCLMULQDQ,DTES64,MON,DS_CPL,VMX,SMX,EST,TM2,SSSE3,<b11>,FMA,CX16,xTPR,PDCM,PCID,SSE4.1,SSE4.2,x2APIC,MOVBE,POPCNT,TSCDLT,AESNI,XSAVE,OSXSAVE,AVX,F16C,RDRAND>
>   AMD Features=0x2c100800<SYSCALL,NX,Page1GB,RDTSCP,LM>
>   AMD Features2=0x21<LAHF,ABM>
>   Standard Extended Features=0x2fbb<GSFSBASE,TSCADJ,SMEP,ENHMOVSB,INVPCID>
>   TSC: P-state invariant, performance statistics
> real memory  = 8589934592 (8192 MB)
> avail memory = 8034803712 (7662 MB)
> Event timer "LAPIC" quality 600
> ACPI APIC Table: <DELL   CBX3   >
> FreeBSD/SMP: Multiprocessor System Detected: 8 CPUs
> FreeBSD/SMP: 1 package(s) x 4 core(s) x 2 SMT threads
>  cpu0 (BSP): APIC ID:  0
>  cpu1 (AP): APIC ID:  1
>  cpu2 (AP): APIC ID:  2
>  cpu3 (AP): APIC ID:  3
>  cpu4 (AP): APIC ID:  4
>  cpu5 (AP): APIC ID:  5
>  cpu6 (AP): APIC ID:  6
>  cpu7 (AP): APIC ID:  7
>
> Diffs at:
> http://www.strugglingcoder.info/patches/hwpmc_hw.txt
> Tests I've done:
> http://www.strugglingcoder.info/patches/hwpmc_hw_pmccontrol.txt
> http://www.strugglingcoder.info/patches/hwpmc_hw_pmctest.txt
>
> I am following 325462-045US Jan 2013 sw dev manual and below are the
> counters
> which I cannot poke at via pmcstat:
>
> Core:
> "L2_RQSTS.DEMAND_DATA_RD_MISS"
> "L2_RQSTS.DEMAND_DATA_RD_HIT"
> "L2_RQSTS.ALL_DEMAND_DATA_RD"
> "L2_RQSTS.ALL_DEMAND_MISS"
> "L2_RQSTS.ALL_DEMAND_REFERENCES"
> "L2_RQSTS.MISS"
> "CYCLE_ACTIVITY.STALLS_L2_PENDING"
> "PAGE_WALKER_LOADS.DTLB_L1"
> "PAGE_WALKER_LOADS.ITLB_L1"
> "BACLEARS.ANY"
> "L2_LINES_OUT.DEMAND_CLEAN"
>
> Uncore:
> "UNC_CBO_XSNP_RESPONSE.INVAL_M"
> "UNC_CBO_CACHE_LOOKUP.ES"
>
> For all of them, I get error like this:
>
> # pmcstat -p L2_RQSTS.MISS ls
> pmcstat: ERROR: Cannot allocate process-mode pmc with specification
> "L2_RQSTS.MISS": Invalid argument
>
> Box does not panic or anything.
>
> I've tried to double check my changes without success.
> Is it possible that the documentation has some inconsistencies?

Hi!

I'm working on SMAP feature, when I have a mostly complete patchset,
can you please test?

>
> Cheers,
> Hiren
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