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authorRavi Bangoria <ravi.bangoria@amd.com>2025-04-29 03:59:37 +0000
committerArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>2025-04-29 22:30:46 -0300
commitfa1332a8011eebe1feefded19c94dcfdb22aacef (patch)
tree79665768767c07493fbd52f7899526596fdee4b8 /tools/perf/Documentation
parentfc481adc97f45328e242b6dba9fabd24f2082a6e (diff)
perf mem/c2c amd: Add ldlat support
'perf mem/c2c' uses IBS Op PMU on AMD platforms. IBS Op PMU on Zen5 uarch has added support for Load Latency filtering. Implement 'perf mem/c2c' --ldlat using IBS Op Load Latency filtering capability. Some subtle differences between AMD and other arch: o --ldlat is disabled by default on AMD o Supported values are 128 to 2048. Signed-off-by: Ravi Bangoria <ravi.bangoria@amd.com> Cc: Ananth Narayan <ananth.narayan@amd.com> Cc: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Cc: Joe Mario <jmario@redhat.com> Cc: Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Sandipan Das <sandipan.das@amd.com> Cc: Santosh Shukla <santosh.shukla@amd.com> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250429035938.1301-4-ravi.bangoria@amd.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'tools/perf/Documentation')
-rw-r--r--tools/perf/Documentation/perf-c2c.txt11
-rw-r--r--tools/perf/Documentation/perf-mem.txt13
2 files changed, 20 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-c2c.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-c2c.txt
index 856f0dfb8e5a3..f4af2dd6ab318 100644
--- a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-c2c.txt
+++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-c2c.txt
@@ -54,8 +54,15 @@ RECORD OPTIONS
-l::
--ldlat::
- Configure mem-loads latency. Supported on Intel and Arm64 processors
- only. Ignored on other archs.
+ Configure mem-loads latency. Supported on Intel, Arm64 and some AMD
+ processors. Ignored on other archs.
+
+ On supported AMD processors:
+ - /sys/bus/event_source/devices/ibs_op/caps/ldlat file contains '1'.
+ - Supported latency values are 128 to 2048 (both inclusive).
+ - Latency value which is a multiple of 128 incurs a little less profiling
+ overhead compared to other values.
+ - Load latency filtering is disabled by default.
-k::
--all-kernel::
diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-mem.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-mem.txt
index 8a1bd9ff0f86d..a9e3c71a22055 100644
--- a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-mem.txt
+++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-mem.txt
@@ -28,6 +28,8 @@ and kernel support is required. See linkperf:perf-arm-spe[1] for a setup guide.
Due to the statistical nature of SPE sampling, not every memory operation will
be sampled.
+On AMD this use IBS Op PMU to sample load-store operations.
+
COMMON OPTIONS
--------------
-f::
@@ -67,8 +69,15 @@ RECORD OPTIONS
Configure all used events to run in user space.
--ldlat <n>::
- Specify desired latency for loads event. Supported on Intel and Arm64
- processors only. Ignored on other archs.
+ Specify desired latency for loads event. Supported on Intel, Arm64 and
+ some AMD processors. Ignored on other archs.
+
+ On supported AMD processors:
+ - /sys/bus/event_source/devices/ibs_op/caps/ldlat file contains '1'.
+ - Supported latency values are 128 to 2048 (both inclusive).
+ - Latency value which is a multiple of 128 incurs a little less profiling
+ overhead compared to other values.
+ - Load latency filtering is disabled by default.
REPORT OPTIONS
--------------