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diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/perf/dwc_pcie_pmu.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/perf/dwc_pcie_pmu.rst new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..d47cd229d7 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/perf/dwc_pcie_pmu.rst @@ -0,0 +1,94 @@ +====================================================================== +Synopsys DesignWare Cores (DWC) PCIe Performance Monitoring Unit (PMU) +====================================================================== + +DesignWare Cores (DWC) PCIe PMU +=============================== + +The PMU is a PCIe configuration space register block provided by each PCIe Root +Port in a Vendor-Specific Extended Capability named RAS D.E.S (Debug, Error +injection, and Statistics). + +As the name indicates, the RAS DES capability supports system level +debugging, AER error injection, and collection of statistics. To facilitate +collection of statistics, Synopsys DesignWare Cores PCIe controller +provides the following two features: + +- one 64-bit counter for Time Based Analysis (RX/TX data throughput and + time spent in each low-power LTSSM state) and +- one 32-bit counter for Event Counting (error and non-error events for + a specified lane) + +Note: There is no interrupt for counter overflow. + +Time Based Analysis +------------------- + +Using this feature you can obtain information regarding RX/TX data +throughput and time spent in each low-power LTSSM state by the controller. +The PMU measures data in two categories: + +- Group#0: Percentage of time the controller stays in LTSSM states. +- Group#1: Amount of data processed (Units of 16 bytes). + +Lane Event counters +------------------- + +Using this feature you can obtain Error and Non-Error information in +specific lane by the controller. The PMU event is selected by all of: + +- Group i +- Event j within the Group i +- Lane k + +Some of the events only exist for specific configurations. + +DesignWare Cores (DWC) PCIe PMU Driver +======================================= + +This driver adds PMU devices for each PCIe Root Port named based on the BDF of +the Root Port. For example, + + 30:03.0 PCI bridge: Device 1ded:8000 (rev 01) + +the PMU device name for this Root Port is dwc_rootport_3018. + +The DWC PCIe PMU driver registers a perf PMU driver, which provides +description of available events and configuration options in sysfs, see +/sys/bus/event_source/devices/dwc_rootport_{bdf}. + +The "format" directory describes format of the config fields of the +perf_event_attr structure. The "events" directory provides configuration +templates for all documented events. For example, +"Rx_PCIe_TLP_Data_Payload" is an equivalent of "eventid=0x22,type=0x1". + +The "perf list" command shall list the available events from sysfs, e.g.:: + + $# perf list | grep dwc_rootport + <...> + dwc_rootport_3018/Rx_PCIe_TLP_Data_Payload/ [Kernel PMU event] + <...> + dwc_rootport_3018/rx_memory_read,lane=?/ [Kernel PMU event] + +Time Based Analysis Event Usage +------------------------------- + +Example usage of counting PCIe RX TLP data payload (Units of bytes):: + + $# perf stat -a -e dwc_rootport_3018/Rx_PCIe_TLP_Data_Payload/ + +The average RX/TX bandwidth can be calculated using the following formula: + + PCIe RX Bandwidth = Rx_PCIe_TLP_Data_Payload / Measure_Time_Window + PCIe TX Bandwidth = Tx_PCIe_TLP_Data_Payload / Measure_Time_Window + +Lane Event Usage +------------------------------- + +Each lane has the same event set and to avoid generating a list of hundreds +of events, the user need to specify the lane ID explicitly, e.g.:: + + $# perf stat -a -e dwc_rootport_3018/rx_memory_read,lane=4/ + +The driver does not support sampling, therefore "perf record" will not +work. Per-task (without "-a") perf sessions are not supported. |