History log of /freebsd-10-stable/sys/sys/pmc.h
Revision Date Author Comments
# 320113 19-Jun-2017 avg

MFC r291494: Add support for Intel Skylake and Intel Broadwell PMC's.


# 320101 19-Jun-2017 avg

MFC r277524: style(9) cleanup in hwpmc


# 320100 19-Jun-2017 avg

MFC 281102: hwpmc: add initial Intel Broadwell support.


# 300060 17-May-2016 pfg

MFC r298931, r298981, r299375:

Minor spelling fixes in:
sys/dev, sys/sys

Many of these have user-visible strings.


# 294046 14-Jan-2016 jtl

MFC r290811:
Fix hwpmc "stalled" behavior

Currently, there is a single pm_stalled flag that tracks whether a
performance monitor was "stalled" due to insufficent ring buffer
space for samples. However, because the same performance monitor
can run on multiple processes or threads at the same time, a single
pm_stalled flag that impacts them all seems insufficient.

In particular, you can hit corner cases where the code fails to stop
performance monitors during a context switch out, because it thinks
the performance monitor is already stopped. However, in reality,
it may be that only the monitor running on a different CPU was stalled.

This patch attempts to fix that behavior by tracking on a per-CPU basis
whether a PM desires to run and whether it is "stalled". This lets the
code make better decisions about when to stop PMs and when to try to
restart them. Ideally, we should avoid the case where the code fails
to stop a PM during a context switch out.

MFC r290813:
Optimizations to the way hwpmc gathers user callchains

Changes to the code to gather user stacks:
* Delay setting pmc_cpumask until we actually have the stack.
* When recording user stack traces, only walk the portion of the ring
that should have samples for us.

MFC r290929:
Change the driver stats to what they really are: unsigned values.

When pmcstat exits after some samples were dropped, give the user an
idea of how many were lost. (Granted, these are global numbers, but
they may still help quantify the scope of the loss.)

MFC r290930:
Improve accuracy of PMC sampling frequency

The code tracks a counter which is the number of events until the next
sample. On context switch in, it loads the saved counter. On context
switch out, it tries to calculate a new saved counter.

Problems:

1. The saved counter was shared by all threads in a process. However, this
means that all threads would be initially loaded with the same saved
counter. However, that could result in sampling more often than once every
X number of events.

2. The calculation to determine a new saved counter was backwards. It
added when it should have subtracted, and subtracted when it should have
added. Assume a single-threaded process with a reload count of 1000
events. Assuming the counter on context switch in was 100 and the counter
on context switch out was 50 (meaning the thread has "consumed" 50 more
events), the code would calculate a new saved counter of 150 (instead of
the proper 50).

Fix:

1. As soon as the saved counter is used to initialize a monitor for a
thread on context switch in, set the saved counter to the reload count.
That way, subsequent threads to use the saved counter will get the full
reload count, assuring we sample at least once every X number of events
(across all threads).

2. Change the calculation of the saved counter. Due to the change to the
saved counter in #1, we simply need to add (modulo the reload count) the
remaining counter time we retrieve from the CPU when a thread is context
switched out.

MFC r291016:
Support a wider history counter in pmcstat(8) gmon output

pmcstat(8) contains an option to output sampling data in a gmon format
compatible with gprof(1). Currently, it uses the default histcounter,
which is an (unsigned short). With large sets of sampling data, it
is possible to overflow the maximum value provided by an (unsigned
short).

This change adds the -e argument to pmcstat. If -e and -g are both
specified, pmcstat will use a histcounter type of uint64_t.

MFC r291017:
Fix the date on the pmcstat(8) man page from r291016.


# 283884 01-Jun-2015 jhb

MFC 282641,282658:
- Move hwpmc(4) debugging code under a new HWPMC_DEBUG option instead of
the broader DEBUG option.
- Convert hwpmc(4) debug printfs over to KTR.

Sponsored by: Norse Corp, Inc.


# 280455 24-Mar-2015 rrs

MFC of r277177 and r279894 with the fixes for the PMC for Haswell.

Sponsored by: Netflix Inc.


# 278982 19-Feb-2015 emaste

MFC r275140: Increase default and maximum callchain depths

Bump the default from 16 to 32, to accommodate kernel flamegraphs.
Bump the maximum from 32 to 128, to accommodate deep user stacks.

Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation


# 267602 18-Jun-2014 kib

MFC r267062:
Disable existing uncore hwpmc code for Nehalem and Westmere EX.


# 266911 30-May-2014 hiren

MFC r263446

Update hwpmc to support core events for Atom Silvermont microarchitecture.
(Model 0x4D as per Intel document 330061-001 01/2014)


# 266888 30-May-2014 gnn

MFC: 266171, 266174

Extend the size of the function or symbol that can be annotated.

Update the amount of data we can collect for hwpmc(4) by default
to work with modern processors and available memory.


# 263122 13-Mar-2014 jhibbits

MFC r261342

Add hwpmc(4) support for the PowerPC 970 class processors, direct events.
This also fixes asserts on removal of the module for the mpc74xx.

The PowerPC 970 processors have two different types of events: direct events
and indirect events. Thus far only direct events are supported. I included
some documentation in the driver on how indirect events work, but support is
for the future.


# 283884 01-Jun-2015 jhb

MFC 282641,282658:
- Move hwpmc(4) debugging code under a new HWPMC_DEBUG option instead of
the broader DEBUG option.
- Convert hwpmc(4) debug printfs over to KTR.

Sponsored by: Norse Corp, Inc.


# 280455 24-Mar-2015 rrs

MFC of r277177 and r279894 with the fixes for the PMC for Haswell.

Sponsored by: Netflix Inc.


# 278982 19-Feb-2015 emaste

MFC r275140: Increase default and maximum callchain depths

Bump the default from 16 to 32, to accommodate kernel flamegraphs.
Bump the maximum from 32 to 128, to accommodate deep user stacks.

Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation


# 267602 18-Jun-2014 kib

MFC r267062:
Disable existing uncore hwpmc code for Nehalem and Westmere EX.


# 266911 30-May-2014 hiren

MFC r263446

Update hwpmc to support core events for Atom Silvermont microarchitecture.
(Model 0x4D as per Intel document 330061-001 01/2014)


# 266888 30-May-2014 gnn

MFC: 266171, 266174

Extend the size of the function or symbol that can be annotated.

Update the amount of data we can collect for hwpmc(4) by default
to work with modern processors and available memory.


# 263122 13-Mar-2014 jhibbits

MFC r261342

Add hwpmc(4) support for the PowerPC 970 class processors, direct events.
This also fixes asserts on removal of the module for the mpc74xx.

The PowerPC 970 processors have two different types of events: direct events
and indirect events. Thus far only direct events are supported. I included
some documentation in the driver on how indirect events work, but support is
for the future.