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Commit 3fe3331bb285 ("perf/x86/amd: Add event map for AMD Family 17h"),
claimed L2 misses were unsupported, due to them not being found in its
referenced documentation, whose link has now moved [1].
That old documentation listed PMCx064 unit mask bit 3 as:
"LsRdBlkC: LS Read Block C S L X Change to X Miss."
and bit 0 as:
"IcFillMiss: IC Fill Miss"
We now have new public documentation [2] with improved descriptions, that
clearly indicate what events those unit mask bits represent:
Bit 3 now clearly states:
"LsRdBlkC: Data Cache Req Miss in L2 (all types)"
and bit 0 is:
"IcFillMiss: Instruction Cache Req Miss in L2."
So we can now add support for L2 misses in perf's genericised events as
PMCx064 with both the above unit masks.
[1] The commit's original documentation reference, "Processor Programming
Reference (PPR) for AMD Family 17h Model 01h, Revision B1 Processors",
originally available here:
https://www.amd.com/system/files/TechDocs/54945_PPR_Family_17h_Models_00h-0Fh.pdf
is now available here:
https://developer.amd.com/wordpress/media/2017/11/54945_PPR_Family_17h_Models_00h-0Fh.pdf
[2] "Processor Programming Reference (PPR) for Family 17h Model 31h,
Revision B0 Processors", available here:
https://developer.amd.com/wp-content/resources/55803_0.54-PUB.pdf
Fixes: 3fe3331bb285 ("perf/x86/amd: Add event map for AMD Family 17h")
Reported-by: Babu Moger <babu.moger@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Kim Phillips <kim.phillips@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Babu Moger <babu.moger@amd.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200121171232.28839-1-kim.phillips@amd.com
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