Em Mon, Mar 20, 2023 at 10:50:59AM -0700, Ian Rogers escreveu:
> On Mon, Mar 20, 2023 at 8:15 AM James Clark <james.clark@arm.com> wrote:
> >
> > Changes since v1:
> > * Rebase onto perf/core because it no longer applied cleanly
> >
> > ------------
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm submitting this on behalf of German who moved on to work on other
> > things in Arm before he could finish it off.
> >
> > The predicate information is available on SPE samples from
> > Armv8.3 (FEAT_SPEv1p1), this could be useful info for profiling SVE
> > code as partial and empty predicates indicate that the full vector
> > width isn't being used. There is a good example in the last commit
> > message.
> >
> > Though currently, there isn't a suitable field to store the info
> > on Perf samples, so this change also adds a new SIMD field.
> > This field could be used by other architectures, but currently there
> > is only one bit reserved to identify SVE. It's only added to
> > struct perf_sample on the userspace side, and isn't part of the kernel
> > ABI, so it doesn't survive a perf inject. Although this is the
> > same behavior for some other fields like branch flags, so I don't
> > think it should be an issue to do something similar here. Perhaps in
> > the future we could make sure everything that is synthesised from
> > auxtrace data also makes it back into the new Perf inject file without
> > being lost.
>
> Series:
> Acked-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Thanks, applied.
- Arnaldo
> Thanks,
> Ian
>
> > German Gomez (4):
> > perf event: Add simd_flags field to perf_sample
> > perf arm-spe: Refactor arm-spe to support operation packet type
> > perf arm-spe: Add SVE flags to the SPE samples
> > perf report: Add 'simd' sort field
> >
> > tools/perf/Documentation/perf-report.txt | 1 +
> > .../util/arm-spe-decoder/arm-spe-decoder.c | 30 ++++++++++--
> > .../util/arm-spe-decoder/arm-spe-decoder.h | 47 +++++++++++++++----
> > tools/perf/util/arm-spe.c | 28 +++++++++--
> > tools/perf/util/hist.c | 1 +
> > tools/perf/util/hist.h | 1 +
> > tools/perf/util/sample.h | 13 +++++
> > tools/perf/util/sort.c | 47 +++++++++++++++++++
> > tools/perf/util/sort.h | 2 +
> > 9 files changed, 152 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)
> >
> >
> > base-commit: 96d541699e5c50b1bc2d50c83cd7145994d5f071
> > --
> > 2.34.1
> >
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- Arnaldo