From nobody Thu Sep 11 21:22:25 2025 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 24840C04A6A for ; Mon, 7 Aug 2023 14:25:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S233671AbjHGOZ1 (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 Aug 2023 10:25:27 -0400 Received: from lindbergh.monkeyblade.net ([23.128.96.19]:39352 "EHLO lindbergh.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S233535AbjHGOZY (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 Aug 2023 10:25:24 -0400 Received: from foss.arm.com (foss.arm.com [217.140.110.172]) by lindbergh.monkeyblade.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 11144C2; Mon, 7 Aug 2023 07:25:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from usa-sjc-imap-foss1.foss.arm.com (unknown [10.121.207.14]) by usa-sjc-mx-foss1.foss.arm.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id A5F8D1FB; Mon, 7 Aug 2023 07:26:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost.localdomain (unknown [172.31.20.19]) by usa-sjc-imap-foss1.foss.arm.com (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 997233F64C; Mon, 7 Aug 2023 07:25:19 -0700 (PDT) From: James Clark To: linux-perf-users@vger.kernel.org, irogers@google.com, john.g.garry@oracle.com, renyu.zj@linux.alibaba.com Cc: James Clark , Will Deacon , Mike Leach , Leo Yan , Peter Zijlstra , Ingo Molnar , Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo , Mark Rutland , Alexander Shishkin , Jiri Olsa , Namhyung Kim , Adrian Hunter , Suzuki K Poulose , Kajol Jain , Kan Liang , Nick Forrington , Eduard Zingerman , Rob Herring , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, coresight@lists.linaro.org Subject: [PATCH v4 4/6] perf vendor events arm64: Update scale units and descriptions of common topdown metrics Date: Mon, 7 Aug 2023 15:20:48 +0100 Message-Id: <20230807142138.288713-5-james.clark@arm.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.34.1 In-Reply-To: <20230807142138.288713-1-james.clark@arm.com> References: <20230807142138.288713-1-james.clark@arm.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Metrics will be published here [1] going forwards, but they have slightly different scale units. To allow autogenerated metrics to be added more easily, update the scale units to match. The more detailed descriptions have also been taken and added to the common file. [1]: https://gitlab.arm.com/telemetry-solution/telemetry-solution/-/tree/ma= in/data/pmu/cpu/ Acked-by: Ian Rogers Signed-off-by: James Clark Reviewed-by: John Garry --- tools/perf/pmu-events/arch/arm64/sbsa.json | 24 +++++++++++----------- 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-) diff --git a/tools/perf/pmu-events/arch/arm64/sbsa.json b/tools/perf/pmu-ev= ents/arch/arm64/sbsa.json index f90b338261ac..4eed79a28f6e 100644 --- a/tools/perf/pmu-events/arch/arm64/sbsa.json +++ b/tools/perf/pmu-events/arch/arm64/sbsa.json @@ -1,34 +1,34 @@ [ { - "MetricExpr": "stall_slot_frontend / (#slots * cpu_cycles)", - "BriefDescription": "Frontend bound L1 topdown metric", + "MetricExpr": "100 * (stall_slot_frontend / (#slots * cpu_cycles))= ", + "BriefDescription": "This metric is the percentage of total slots = that were stalled due to resource constraints in the frontend of the proces= sor.", "DefaultMetricgroupName": "TopdownL1", "MetricGroup": "Default;TopdownL1", "MetricName": "frontend_bound", - "ScaleUnit": "100%" + "ScaleUnit": "1percent of slots" }, { - "MetricExpr": "(1 - op_retired / op_spec) * (1 - stall_slot / (#sl= ots * cpu_cycles))", - "BriefDescription": "Bad speculation L1 topdown metric", + "MetricExpr": "100 * ((1 - op_retired / op_spec) * (1 - stall_slot= / (#slots * cpu_cycles)))", + "BriefDescription": "This metric is the percentage of total slots = that executed operations and didn't retire due to a pipeline flush.\nThis i= ndicates cycles that were utilized but inefficiently.", "DefaultMetricgroupName": "TopdownL1", "MetricGroup": "Default;TopdownL1", "MetricName": "bad_speculation", - "ScaleUnit": "100%" + "ScaleUnit": "1percent of slots" }, { - "MetricExpr": "(op_retired / op_spec) * (1 - stall_slot / (#slots = * cpu_cycles))", - "BriefDescription": "Retiring L1 topdown metric", + "MetricExpr": "100 * ((op_retired / op_spec) * (1 - stall_slot / (= #slots * cpu_cycles)))", + "BriefDescription": "This metric is the percentage of total slots = that retired operations, which indicates cycles that were utilized efficien= tly.", "DefaultMetricgroupName": "TopdownL1", "MetricGroup": "Default;TopdownL1", "MetricName": "retiring", - "ScaleUnit": "100%" + "ScaleUnit": "1percent of slots" }, { - "MetricExpr": "stall_slot_backend / (#slots * cpu_cycles)", - "BriefDescription": "Backend Bound L1 topdown metric", + "MetricExpr": "100 * (stall_slot_backend / (#slots * cpu_cycles))", + "BriefDescription": "This metric is the percentage of total slots = that were stalled due to resource constraints in the backend of the process= or.", "DefaultMetricgroupName": "TopdownL1", "MetricGroup": "Default;TopdownL1", "MetricName": "backend_bound", - "ScaleUnit": "100%" + "ScaleUnit": "1percent of slots" } ] --=20 2.34.1