The hv_24x7 performance monitoring unit creates a list of supported
events from the event catalog obtained via HCALL. The hv_24x7 catalog
could also contain invalid or dummy events with names like RESERVED*.
These events do not have any hardware counters backing them. Add a
check to string compare the event names to filter such events out.
Result on power9 machine:
Before this patch:
.....
hv_24x7/PM_XLINK2_OUT_ODD_CYC,chip=?/ [Kernel PMU event]
hv_24x7/PM_XLINK2_OUT_ODD_DATA_COUNT,chip=?/ [Kernel PMU event]
hv_24x7/PM_XLINK2_OUT_ODD_TOTAL_UTIL,chip=?/ [Kernel PMU event]
hv_24x7/PM_XTS_ATR_DEMAND_CHECKOUT,chip=?/ [Kernel PMU event]
hv_24x7/PM_XTS_ATR_DEMAND_CHECKOUT_MISS,chip=?/ [Kernel PMU event]
hv_24x7/PM_XTS_ATSD_SENT,chip=?/ [Kernel PMU event]
hv_24x7/PM_XTS_ATSD_TLBI_RCV,chip=?/ [Kernel PMU event]
hv_24x7/RESERVED_NEST1,chip=?/ [Kernel PMU event]
hv_24x7/RESERVED_NEST10,chip=?/ [Kernel PMU event]
hv_24x7/RESERVED_NEST11,chip=?/ [Kernel PMU event]
hv_24x7/RESERVED_NEST12,chip=?/ [Kernel PMU event]
hv_24x7/RESERVED_NEST13,chip=?/ [Kernel PMU event]
......
dmesg:
[ 0.000362] printk: console [hvc0] enabled
[ 0.815452] hv-24x7: read 1530 catalog entries, created 537 event attrs (0 failures), 275 descs
After this patch:
......
hv_24x7/PM_XLINK2_OUT_ODD_AVLBL_CYC,chip=?/ [Kernel PMU event]
hv_24x7/PM_XLINK2_OUT_ODD_CYC,chip=?/ [Kernel PMU event]
hv_24x7/PM_XLINK2_OUT_ODD_DATA_COUNT,chip=?/ [Kernel PMU event]
hv_24x7/PM_XLINK2_OUT_ODD_TOTAL_UTIL,chip=?/ [Kernel PMU event]
hv_24x7/PM_XTS_ATR_DEMAND_CHECKOUT,chip=?/ [Kernel PMU event]
hv_24x7/PM_XTS_ATR_DEMAND_CHECKOUT_MISS,chip=?/ [Kernel PMU event]
hv_24x7/PM_XTS_ATSD_SENT,chip=?/ [Kernel PMU event]
hv_24x7/PM_XTS_ATSD_TLBI_RCV,chip=?/ [Kernel PMU event]
hv_24x7/TOD,chip=?/ [Kernel PMU event]
......
dmesg:
[ 0.000357] printk: console [hvc0] enabled
[ 0.808592] hv-24x7: read 1530 catalog entries, created 509 event attrs (0 failures), 275 descs
Signed-off-by: Kajol Jain <kjain@linux.ibm.com>
[mpe: Simplify ignore_event(), minor change log formatting]
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201228085204.18026-1-kjain@linux.ibm.com
return ev_len;
}
+/*
+ * Return true incase of invalid or dummy events with names like RESERVED*
+ */
+static bool ignore_event(const char *name)
+{
+ return strncmp(name, "RESERVED", 8) == 0;
+}
+
#define MAX_4K (SIZE_MAX / 4096)
static int create_events_from_catalog(struct attribute ***events_,
name = event_name(event, &nl);
+ if (ignore_event(name)) {
+ junk_events++;
+ continue;
+ }
if (event->event_group_record_len == 0) {
pr_devel("invalid event %zu (%.*s): group_record_len == 0, skipping\n",
event_idx, nl, name);
continue;
name = event_name(event, &nl);
+ if (ignore_event(name))
+ continue;
+
nonce = event_uniq_add(&ev_uniq, name, nl, event->domain);
ct = event_data_to_attrs(event_idx, events + event_attr_ct,
event, nonce);