perf/x86/intel/uncore: Expose an Uncore unit to PMON mapping
Each Uncore unit type, by its nature, can be mapped to its own context - which platform component each PMON block of that type is supposed to monitor. Intel® Xeon® Scalable processor family (code name Skylake-SP) makes significant changes in the integrated I/O (IIO) architecture. The new solution introduces IIO stacks which are responsible for managing traffic between the PCIe domain and the Mesh domain. Each IIO stack has its own PMON block and can handle either DMI port, x16 PCIe root port, MCP-Link or various built-in accelerators. IIO PMON blocks allow concurrent monitoring of I/O flows up to 4 x4 bifurcation within each IIO stack. Software is supposed to program required perf counters within each IIO stack and gather performance data. The tricky thing here is that IIO PMON reports data per IIO stack but users have no idea what IIO stacks are - they only know devices which are connected to the platform. Understanding IIO stack concept to find which IIO stack that particular IO device is connected to, or to identify an IIO PMON block to program for monitoring specific IIO stack assumes a lot of implicit knowledge about given Intel server platform architecture. Usage example: ls /sys/devices/uncore_<type>_<pmu_idx>/die* Signed-off-by: Alexander Antonov <alexander.antonov@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Roman Sudarikov <roman.sudarikov@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Reviewed-by: Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com> Reviewed-by: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200601083543.30011-2-alexander.antonov@linux.intel.com
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