[Xen-users] How to make tracking CPU cache-miss on Xen?

[Minjun Hong <nickeysgo@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hello, I'm working on the 'credit scheduler' of Xen.

And I need to compare CPU cache misses between original Xen and my patching version.

But I failed all attempt even if I have tried many methods by googling.

When I typed 'perf list' with my 'perf' compiled by source code in the current kernel source code, it said:

nickeys@nickeys-linux-machine:~/ubuntu/tools/perf$ ./perf list

List of pre-defined events (to be used in -e):

  msr/pperf/                                         [Kernel PMU event]

  msr/smi/                                           [Kernel PMU event]

  msr/tsc/                                           [Kernel PMU event]

  power/energy-cores/                                [Kernel PMU event]

  power/energy-gpu/                                  [Kernel PMU event]

  power/energy-pkg/                                  [Kernel PMU event]

  power/energy-psys/                                 [Kernel PMU event]

  power/energy-ram/                                  [Kernel PMU event]

  rNNN                                               [Raw hardware event descriptor]

  cpu/t1=v1[,t2=v2,t3 ...]/modifier                  [Raw hardware event descriptor]

   (see 'man perf-list' on how to encode it)

  mem:<addr>[/len][:access]                          [Hardware breakpoint]

nickeys@nickeys-linux-machine:~/ubuntu/tools/perf$ 

Since there is no HW event in contrast with native environment, I should try 'Raw hardware event descriptor' option.

According to 'Intel® 64 and IA-32 Architectures Software Developer’s Manual Volume 3B: System Programming Guide', I used 'r412e' raw hardware event to get LLC Misses which is in '18.2.1.2 Pre-defined Architectural Performance Events' section of the guide,

but I found out my 'perf' does not support the feature:

nickeys@nickeys-linux-machine:~/ubuntu/tools/perf$ sudo ./perf stat -e r412e sleep 1

 Performance counter stats for 'sleep 1':

   <not supported>      r412e                                                       

       1.002120111 seconds time elapsed

nickeys@nickeys-linux-machine:~/ubuntu/tools/perf$

 I could not understand why I cannot find out the number of cache-misses. When I did googling, I did not think there would be a problem because there were a lot of posts to get cache-misses in the Xen environment.

Below is my PC configuration:

CPU: Intel Core i7-6700 

 OS : Ubuntu 16.04 LTS

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