powerpc/perf: Update default sdar_mode value for power9
Commit 20dd4c62 ('powerpc/perf: Fix SDAR_MODE value for continous sampling on Power9') set the default sdar_mode value in MMCRA[SDAR_MODE] to be used as 0b01 (Update on TLB miss). And this value is set if sdar_mode from event is zero, or we are in continous sampling mode in power9 dd1. But it is preferred to have the sdar_mode value for power9 as 0b10 (Update on dcache miss) for better sampling updates instead of 0b01 (Update on TLB miss). From Anton: Using a bandwidth test case with a 1MB footprint, I profiled cycles and chose TLB updates of the SDAR: $ perf record -d -e r000400000000001E:u ./bw2001 1M ^ SDAR TLB $ perf report -D | grep PERF_RECORD_SAMPLE | sed 's/.*addr: //' | sort -u | wc -l 4 I get 4 unique addresses. If I ran with dcache misses: $ perf record -d -e r000800000000001E:u ./bw2001 1M ^ SDAR dcache miss $ perf report -D|grep PERF_RECORD_SAMPLE| sed 's/.*addr: //'|sort -u | wc -l 5217 I get 5217 unique addresses. No surprises here, but it does show why TLB misses is the wrong event to default to - we get very little useful information out of it. Signed-off-by: Madhavan Srinivasan <maddy@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
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