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Commit 493be70a authored by Jin Yao's avatar Jin Yao Committed by Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
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perf stat: Disable the NMI watchdog message on hybrid



If we run a single workload that only runs on big core, there is always
a ugly message about disabling the NMI watchdog because the atom is not
counted.

Before:

  # ./perf stat true

   Performance counter stats for 'true':

                0.43 msec task-clock                #    0.396 CPUs utilized
                   0      context-switches          #    0.000 /sec
                   0      cpu-migrations            #    0.000 /sec
                  45      page-faults               #  103.918 K/sec
             639,634      cpu_core/cycles/          #    1.477 G/sec
       <not counted>      cpu_atom/cycles/                                              (0.00%)
             643,498      cpu_core/instructions/    #    1.486 G/sec
       <not counted>      cpu_atom/instructions/                                        (0.00%)
             123,715      cpu_core/branches/        #  285.694 M/sec
       <not counted>      cpu_atom/branches/                                            (0.00%)
               4,094      cpu_core/branch-misses/   #    9.454 M/sec
       <not counted>      cpu_atom/branch-misses/                                       (0.00%)

         0.001092407 seconds time elapsed

         0.001144000 seconds user
         0.000000000 seconds sys

  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

  # ./perf stat -e '{cpu_atom/cycles/,msr/tsc/}' true

   Performance counter stats for 'true':

       <not counted>      cpu_atom/cycles/                                              (0.00%)
       <not counted>      msr/tsc/                                                      (0.00%)

         0.001904106 seconds time elapsed

         0.001947000 seconds user
         0.000000000 seconds sys

  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
  The events in group usually have to be from the same PMU. Try reorganizing the group.

Now we disable the NMI watchdog message on hybrid, otherwise there
are too many false positives.

After:

  # ./perf stat true

   Performance counter stats for 'true':

                0.79 msec task-clock                #    0.419 CPUs utilized
                   0      context-switches          #    0.000 /sec
                   0      cpu-migrations            #    0.000 /sec
                  48      page-faults               #   60.889 K/sec
             777,692      cpu_core/cycles/          #  986.519 M/sec
       <not counted>      cpu_atom/cycles/                                              (0.00%)
             669,147      cpu_core/instructions/    #  848.828 M/sec
       <not counted>      cpu_atom/instructions/                                        (0.00%)
             128,635      cpu_core/branches/        #  163.176 M/sec
       <not counted>      cpu_atom/branches/                                            (0.00%)
               4,089      cpu_core/branch-misses/   #    5.187 M/sec
       <not counted>      cpu_atom/branch-misses/                                       (0.00%)

         0.001880649 seconds time elapsed

         0.001935000 seconds user
         0.000000000 seconds sys

  # ./perf stat -e '{cpu_atom/cycles/,msr/tsc/}' true

   Performance counter stats for 'true':

       <not counted>      cpu_atom/cycles/                                              (0.00%)
       <not counted>      msr/tsc/                                                      (0.00%)

         0.000963319 seconds time elapsed

         0.000999000 seconds user
         0.000000000 seconds sys

Signed-off-by: default avatarJin Yao <yao.jin@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: default avatarJiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Jin Yao <yao.jin@intel.com>
Cc: Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20210610034557.29766-1-yao.jin@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: default avatarArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
parent a3cbcadf
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