From patchwork Thu Aug 20 09:21:06 2020 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Patchwork-Submitter: "gregkh@linuxfoundation.org" X-Patchwork-Id: 265317 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-12.8 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00,DKIMWL_WL_HIGH, DKIM_SIGNED, DKIM_VALID, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, INCLUDES_PATCH, MAILING_LIST_MULTI, SIGNED_OFF_BY, SPF_HELO_NONE, SPF_PASS, URIBL_BLOCKED, USER_AGENT_GIT autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A591DC433E8 for ; Thu, 20 Aug 2020 13:23:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 85F2322B47 for ; Thu, 20 Aug 2020 13:23:11 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=kernel.org; s=default; t=1597929791; bh=SyegA3bvJrFg8dpHJ5/ardA2mwqjWJ6lgwFOeVX86zA=; h=From:To:Cc:Subject:Date:In-Reply-To:References:List-ID:From; b=YIZvEH/DxVCrm7fItLyHnqklq2tV5jmbE7+NWsQFDFsFBqOi5/fsGh4fe9GnN+zHO HUrPuWXe7WkpGERZnZCZIBa1uBGowPgC4oa3BbcqP5TOqtzDNF0f03XqNVz4Tcci3b a0dwqafK4kGKy8AnEaehc9s8uKu8LJqLrF00/vmU= Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1729339AbgHTNXK (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 Aug 2020 09:23:10 -0400 Received: from mail.kernel.org ([198.145.29.99]:46354 "EHLO mail.kernel.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1728035AbgHTJeK (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 Aug 2020 05:34:10 -0400 Received: from localhost (83-86-89-107.cable.dynamic.v4.ziggo.nl [83.86.89.107]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 9C4D522C9F; Thu, 20 Aug 2020 09:33:38 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=kernel.org; s=default; t=1597916019; bh=SyegA3bvJrFg8dpHJ5/ardA2mwqjWJ6lgwFOeVX86zA=; h=From:To:Cc:Subject:Date:In-Reply-To:References:From; b=z0K6eMO3IBhmyJfVKc1PmZGMxR9m5gTy+naIrEj7vSUDgKB2Ki2AHXXT5LdhaeUGd vXtxb9JBgv9YMdoBRuMZm7etqlGt8v+Kt4WZFdQCly7/Vr27M4DlkgtKy0TdFX6J2E sXQbpdvT+YAcOmjtFxHGFEOYiLmJfj3exO5ZONRM= From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman , stable@vger.kernel.org, Vincent Whitchurch , Alexander Shishkin , Jiri Olsa , Mark Rutland , Namhyung Kim , Peter Zijlstra , kernel@axis.com, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo , Sasha Levin Subject: [PATCH 5.8 215/232] perf bench mem: Always memset source before memcpy Date: Thu, 20 Aug 2020 11:21:06 +0200 Message-Id: <20200820091623.210335929@linuxfoundation.org> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.28.0 In-Reply-To: <20200820091612.692383444@linuxfoundation.org> References: <20200820091612.692383444@linuxfoundation.org> User-Agent: quilt/0.66 MIME-Version: 1.0 Sender: stable-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: stable@vger.kernel.org From: Vincent Whitchurch [ Upstream commit 1beaef29c34154ccdcb3f1ae557f6883eda18840 ] For memcpy, the source pages are memset to zero only when --cycles is used. This leads to wildly different results with or without --cycles, since all sources pages are likely to be mapped to the same zero page without explicit writes. Before this fix: $ export cmd="./perf stat -e LLC-loads -- ./perf bench \ mem memcpy -s 1024MB -l 100 -f default" $ $cmd 2,935,826 LLC-loads 3.821677452 seconds time elapsed $ $cmd --cycles 217,533,436 LLC-loads 8.616725985 seconds time elapsed After this fix: $ $cmd 214,459,686 LLC-loads 8.674301124 seconds time elapsed $ $cmd --cycles 214,758,651 LLC-loads 8.644480006 seconds time elapsed Fixes: 47b5757bac03c338 ("perf bench mem: Move boilerplate memory allocation to the infrastructure") Signed-off-by: Vincent Whitchurch Cc: Alexander Shishkin Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: Mark Rutland Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: kernel@axis.com Link: http://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200810133404.30829-1-vincent.whitchurch@axis.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin --- tools/perf/bench/mem-functions.c | 21 +++++++++++---------- 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-) diff --git a/tools/perf/bench/mem-functions.c b/tools/perf/bench/mem-functions.c index 9235b76501be8..19d45c377ac18 100644 --- a/tools/perf/bench/mem-functions.c +++ b/tools/perf/bench/mem-functions.c @@ -223,12 +223,8 @@ static int bench_mem_common(int argc, const char **argv, struct bench_mem_info * return 0; } -static u64 do_memcpy_cycles(const struct function *r, size_t size, void *src, void *dst) +static void memcpy_prefault(memcpy_t fn, size_t size, void *src, void *dst) { - u64 cycle_start = 0ULL, cycle_end = 0ULL; - memcpy_t fn = r->fn.memcpy; - int i; - /* Make sure to always prefault zero pages even if MMAP_THRESH is crossed: */ memset(src, 0, size); @@ -237,6 +233,15 @@ static u64 do_memcpy_cycles(const struct function *r, size_t size, void *src, vo * to not measure page fault overhead: */ fn(dst, src, size); +} + +static u64 do_memcpy_cycles(const struct function *r, size_t size, void *src, void *dst) +{ + u64 cycle_start = 0ULL, cycle_end = 0ULL; + memcpy_t fn = r->fn.memcpy; + int i; + + memcpy_prefault(fn, size, src, dst); cycle_start = get_cycles(); for (i = 0; i < nr_loops; ++i) @@ -252,11 +257,7 @@ static double do_memcpy_gettimeofday(const struct function *r, size_t size, void memcpy_t fn = r->fn.memcpy; int i; - /* - * We prefault the freshly allocated memory range here, - * to not measure page fault overhead: - */ - fn(dst, src, size); + memcpy_prefault(fn, size, src, dst); BUG_ON(gettimeofday(&tv_start, NULL)); for (i = 0; i < nr_loops; ++i)