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Commit cfcb3d80 authored by Aneesh Kumar K.V's avatar Aneesh Kumar K.V Committed by Michael Ellerman
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powerpc/mm: Add trace point for tracking hash pte fault



This enables us to understand how many hash fault we are taking
when running benchmarks.

For ex:
-bash-4.2# ./perf stat -e  powerpc:hash_fault -e page-faults /tmp/ebizzy.ppc64 -S 30  -P -n 1000
...

 Performance counter stats for '/tmp/ebizzy.ppc64 -S 30 -P -n 1000':

       1,10,04,075      powerpc:hash_fault
       1,10,03,429      page-faults

      30.865978991 seconds time elapsed

NOTE:
The impact of the tracepoint was not noticeable when running test. It was
within the run-time variance of the test. For ex:

without-patch:
--------------

 Performance counter stats for './a.out 3000 300':

	       643      page-faults               #    0.089 M/sec
	  7.236562      task-clock (msec)         #    0.928 CPUs utilized
	 2,179,213      stalled-cycles-frontend   #    0.00% frontend cycles idle
	17,174,367      stalled-cycles-backend    #    0.00% backend  cycles idle
		 0      context-switches          #    0.000 K/sec

       0.007794658 seconds time elapsed

And with-patch:
---------------

 Performance counter stats for './a.out 3000 300':

	       643      page-faults               #    0.089 M/sec
	  7.233746      task-clock (msec)         #    0.921 CPUs utilized
		 0      context-switches          #    0.000 K/sec

       0.007854876 seconds time elapsed

 Performance counter stats for './a.out 3000 300':

	       643      page-faults               #    0.087 M/sec
	       649      powerpc:hash_fault        #    0.087 M/sec
	  7.430376      task-clock (msec)         #    0.938 CPUs utilized
	 2,347,174      stalled-cycles-frontend   #    0.00% frontend cycles idle
	17,524,282      stalled-cycles-backend    #    0.00% backend  cycles idle
		 0      context-switches          #    0.000 K/sec

       0.007920284 seconds time elapsed

Signed-off-by: default avatarAneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarMichael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
parent 809fac67
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