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Re: [PATCH v1 1/2] perf report: Check for fused instruction pair

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Em Wed, Jun 14, 2017 at 10:53:40AM +0800, Jin Yao escreveu:
> Macro fusion merges two instructions to a single micro-op. Intel
> core platform performs this hardware optimization under limited
> circumstances. For example, CMP + JCC can be "fused" and executed
> /retired together. While with sampling this can result in the
> sample sometimes being on the JCC and sometimes on the CMP.
> So for the fused instruction pair, they could be considered
> together.

doing it as a weak function that will be overriden by the host arch
doesn't work, as we also support cross-annotation. So you have to take
into account perf_evsel__env_arch(evsel), etc.

Please search for perf_evsel__env_arch(evsel) in the annotation source
files to see how it is used.

- Arnaldo
 
> In general, the fused instruction pairs are:
> 
> cmp/test/add/sub/and/inc/dec + jcc.
> 
> This patch adds a new function which checks if 2 x86 instructions
> are in a "fused" pair. For non-x86 arch, the function just returns
> false.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jin Yao <yao.jin@linux.intel.com>
> ---
>  tools/perf/arch/x86/util/Build   |  1 +
>  tools/perf/arch/x86/util/fused.c | 20 ++++++++++++++++++++
>  tools/perf/util/Build            |  1 +
>  tools/perf/util/fused.c          | 11 +++++++++++
>  tools/perf/util/fused.h          |  8 ++++++++
>  5 files changed, 41 insertions(+)
>  create mode 100644 tools/perf/arch/x86/util/fused.c
>  create mode 100644 tools/perf/util/fused.c
>  create mode 100644 tools/perf/util/fused.h
> 
> diff --git a/tools/perf/arch/x86/util/Build b/tools/perf/arch/x86/util/Build
> index f95e6f4..3809348 100644
> --- a/tools/perf/arch/x86/util/Build
> +++ b/tools/perf/arch/x86/util/Build
> @@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ libperf-y += pmu.o
>  libperf-y += kvm-stat.o
>  libperf-y += perf_regs.o
>  libperf-y += group.o
> +libperf-y += fused.o
>  
>  libperf-$(CONFIG_DWARF) += dwarf-regs.o
>  libperf-$(CONFIG_BPF_PROLOGUE) += dwarf-regs.o
> diff --git a/tools/perf/arch/x86/util/fused.c b/tools/perf/arch/x86/util/fused.c
> new file mode 100644
> index 0000000..be28d22
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/tools/perf/arch/x86/util/fused.c
> @@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
> +#include <string.h>
> +#include "../../util/fused.h"
> +
> +bool fused_insn_pair(const char *insn1, const char *insn2)
> +{
> +	if (strstr(insn2, "jmp"))
> +		return false;
> +
> +	if ((strstr(insn1, "cmp") && !strstr(insn1, "xchg")) ||
> +	    strstr(insn1, "test") ||
> +	    strstr(insn1, "add") ||
> +	    strstr(insn1, "sub") ||
> +	    strstr(insn1, "and") ||
> +	    strstr(insn1, "inc") ||
> +	    strstr(insn1, "dec")) {
> +		return true;
> +	}
> +
> +	return false;
> +}
> diff --git a/tools/perf/util/Build b/tools/perf/util/Build
> index 79dea95..b83757d 100644
> --- a/tools/perf/util/Build
> +++ b/tools/perf/util/Build
> @@ -93,6 +93,7 @@ libperf-y += drv_configs.o
>  libperf-y += units.o
>  libperf-y += time-utils.o
>  libperf-y += expr-bison.o
> +libperf-y += fused.o
>  
>  libperf-$(CONFIG_LIBBPF) += bpf-loader.o
>  libperf-$(CONFIG_BPF_PROLOGUE) += bpf-prologue.o
> diff --git a/tools/perf/util/fused.c b/tools/perf/util/fused.c
> new file mode 100644
> index 0000000..2cf56fa
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/tools/perf/util/fused.c
> @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
> +#include <linux/compiler.h>
> +#include <linux/types.h>
> +#include <string.h>
> +
> +#include "fused.h"
> +
> +bool __weak fused_insn_pair(const char *insn1 __maybe_unused,
> +			    const char *insn2 __maybe_unused)
> +{
> +	return false;
> +}
> diff --git a/tools/perf/util/fused.h b/tools/perf/util/fused.h
> new file mode 100644
> index 0000000..fa26714
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/tools/perf/util/fused.h
> @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
> +#ifndef __PERF_FUSED_H
> +#define __PERF_FUSED_H
> +
> +#include <linux/types.h>
> +
> +bool fused_insn_pair(const char *insn1, const char *insn2);
> +
> +#endif	/* __PERF_FUSED_H */
> -- 
> 2.7.4

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[PATCH v1 1/2] perf report: Check for fused instruction pair Jin Yao <yao.jin@linux.intel.com> - 2017-06-14 05:00 +0200
  Re: [PATCH v1 1/2] perf report: Check for fused instruction pair Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org> - 2017-06-16 18:30 +0200
    Re: [PATCH v1 1/2] perf report: Check for fused instruction pair "Jin, Yao" <yao.jin@linux.intel.com> - 2017-06-19 05:00 +0200

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