Commit 7fa981c
perf/x86/intel: Add a quirk for the calculation of the number of counters on Alder Lake
For some Alder Lake machine with all E-cores disabled in a BIOS, the
below warning may be triggered.
[ 2.010766] hw perf events fixed 5 > max(4), clipping!
Current perf code relies on the CPUID leaf 0xA and leaf 7.EDX[15] to
calculate the number of the counters and follow the below assumption.
For a hybrid configuration, the leaf 7.EDX[15] (X86_FEATURE_HYBRID_CPU)
is set. The leaf 0xA only enumerate the common counters. Linux perf has
to manually add the extra GP counters and fixed counters for P-cores.
For a non-hybrid configuration, the X86_FEATURE_HYBRID_CPU should not
be set. The leaf 0xA enumerates all counters.
However, that's not the case when all E-cores are disabled in a BIOS.
Although there are only P-cores in the system, the leaf 7.EDX[15]
(X86_FEATURE_HYBRID_CPU) is still set. But the leaf 0xA is updated
to enumerate all counters of P-cores. The inconsistency triggers the
warning.
Several software ways were considered to handle the inconsistency.
- Drop the leaf 0xA and leaf 7.EDX[15] CPUID enumeration support.
Hardcode the number of counters. This solution may be a problem for
virtualization. A hypervisor cannot control the number of counters
in a Linux guest via changing the guest CPUID enumeration anymore.
- Find another CPUID bit that is also updated with E-cores disabled.
There may be a problem in the virtualization environment too. Because
a hypervisor may disable the feature/CPUID bit.
- The P-cores have a maximum of 8 GP counters and 4 fixed counters on
ADL. The maximum number can be used to detect the case.
This solution is implemented in this patch.
Fixes: ee72a94 ("perf/x86/intel: Fix fixed counter check warning for some Alder Lake")
Reported-by: Damjan Marion (damarion) <[email protected]>
Reported-by: Chan Edison <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Kan Liang <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <[email protected]>
Tested-by: Damjan Marion (damarion) <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]1 parent 09f5e7d commit 7fa981c
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