perf stat: Issue a HW watchdog disable hint
When using perf stat on an AMD F15h system with the default hw events
attributes, some of the events don't get counted:
Performance counter stats for 'sleep 1':
0.749208 task-clock (msec) # 0.001 CPUs utilized
1 context-switches # 0.001 M/sec
0 cpu-migrations # 0.000 K/sec
54 page-faults # 0.072 M/sec
1,122,815 cycles # 1.499 GHz
286,740 stalled-cycles-frontend # 25.54% frontend cycles idle
<not counted> stalled-cycles-backend (0.00%)
^^^^^^^^^^^^
<not counted> instructions (0.00%)
^^^^^^^^^^^^
<not counted> branches (0.00%)
<not counted> branch-misses (0.00%)
1.
001550070 seconds time elapsed
The reason is that we have the HW watchdog consuming one PMU counter and
when perf tries to schedule 6 events on 6 counters and some of those
counters are constrained to only a specific subset of PMCs by the
hardware, the event scheduling fails.
So issue a hint to disable the HW watchdog around a perf stat session.
Committer note:
Testing it...
# perf stat -d usleep 1
Performance counter stats for 'usleep 1':
1.180203 task-clock (msec) # 0.490 CPUs utilized
1 context-switches # 0.847 K/sec
0 cpu-migrations # 0.000 K/sec
54 page-faults # 0.046 M/sec
184,754 cycles # 0.157 GHz
714,553 instructions # 3.87 insn per cycle
154,661 branches # 131.046 M/sec
7,247 branch-misses # 4.69% of all branches
219,984 L1-dcache-loads # 186.395 M/sec
17,600 L1-dcache-load-misses # 8.00% of all L1-dcache hits (90.16%)
<not counted> LLC-loads (0.00%)
<not counted> LLC-load-misses (0.00%)
0.
002406823 seconds time elapsed
Some events weren't counted. Try disabling the NMI watchdog:
echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/nmi_watchdog
perf stat ...
echo 1 > /proc/sys/kernel/nmi_watchdog
#
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Robert Richter <rric@kernel.org>
Cc: Vince Weaver <vince@deater.net>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170211183218.ijnvb5f7ciyuunx4@pd.tnic
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>