topdown: Created a component for interfacing with Intel's PERF_METRICS MSR

src/components/topdown/README.md

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+# TOPDOWN Component
+
+The `topdown` component enables accessing the `PERF_METRICS` Model Specific
+Register (MSR) of modern Intel PMUs, and makes it simple to properly 
+interpret the results.
+
+* [Enabling the TOPDOWN Component](#enabling-the-topdown-component)
+* [Adding More Architectures](#adding_more_architectures)
+
+## Enabling the TOPDOWN Component
+
+To enable reading of topdown metrics the user needs to link against a
+PAPI library that was configured with the topdown component enabled. As an
+example the following command: `./configure --with-components="topdown"` is
+sufficient to enable the component.
+
+## Interpreting Results
+
+The events added by this component ending in "_PERC" should be cast to double 
+values in order to be properly interpreted as percentages. An example of how
+to do so follows:
+
+    PAPI_start(EventSet);
+
+    /* some block of code... */
+
+    PAPI_stop(EventSet, values);
+
+    printf("First metric was %.1f\n", *((double *)(&values[0])));
+
+## Adding More Architectures
+
+To contribute more supported architectures to the component, add the cpuid model
+of the architecture to the case statement in `_topdown_init_component` of 
+[topdown.c](./topdown.c) and set the relevant options (`supports_l2`, etc.)

src/components/topdown/Rules.topdown

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+COMPSRCS += components/topdown/topdown.c
+COMPOBJS += topdown.o
+
+topdown.o: components/topdown/topdown.c components/topdown/topdown.h $(HEADERS) 
+	$(CC) $(LIBCFLAGS) $(OPTFLAGS) -c components/topdown/topdown.c -o topdown.o 

src/components/topdown/tests/Makefile

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+NAME=topdown
+include ../../Makefile_comp_tests.target
+
+%.o:%.c
+	$(CC) $(CFLAGS) $(OPTFLAGS) $(INCLUDE) -c -o $@ $<
+
+TESTS = topdown_basic topdown_L1 topdown_L2
+
+topdown_tests: $(TESTS)
+
+topdown_basic: topdown_basic.o $(UTILOBJS) $(PAPILIB)
+	$(CC) $(CFLAGS) $(INCLUDE) -o topdown_basic topdown_basic.o $(UTILOBJS) $(PAPILIB) $(LDFLAGS) 
+
+topdown_L1: topdown_L1.o $(UTILOBJS) $(PAPILIB)
+	$(CC) $(CFLAGS) $(INCLUDE) -o topdown_L1 topdown_L1.o $(UTILOBJS) $(PAPILIB) $(LDFLAGS) 
+
+topdown_L2: topdown_L2.o $(UTILOBJS) $(PAPILIB)
+	$(CC) $(CFLAGS) $(INCLUDE) -o topdown_L2 topdown_L2.o $(UTILOBJS) $(PAPILIB) $(LDFLAGS) 
+
+
+clean:
+	rm -f $(TESTS) *.o

src/components/topdown/tests/topdown_L1.c

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+/*
+ * Specifically tests that the Level 1 topdown events make sense.
+ */
+
+#include <stdio.h>
+#include <stdlib.h>
+#include <unistd.h>
+#include <string.h>
+
+#include "papi.h"
+#include "papi_test.h"
+
+#define NUM_EVENTS  4
+#define PERC_TOLERANCE  1.5
+
+// fibonacci function to serve as a benchable code section
+void __attribute__((optimize("O0"))) fib(int n)
+{
+    long i, a = 0;
+    int b = 1;
+    for (i = 0; i < n; i++)
+    {
+        b = b + a;
+        a = b - a;
+    }
+}
+
+int main(int argc, char **argv)
+{
+    int i, quiet, retval;
+    int EventSet = PAPI_NULL;
+    const PAPI_component_info_t *cmpinfo = NULL;
+    int numcmp, cid, topdown_cid = -1;
+    long long values[NUM_EVENTS];
+    double tmp;
+
+    /* Set TESTS_QUIET variable */
+    quiet = tests_quiet(argc, argv);
+
+    /* PAPI Initialization */
+    retval = PAPI_library_init(PAPI_VER_CURRENT);
+    if (retval != PAPI_VER_CURRENT)
+    {
+        test_fail(__FILE__, __LINE__, "PAPI_library_init failed\n", retval);
+    }
+
+    if (!quiet)
+    {
+        printf("Testing topdown component with PAPI %d.%d.%d\n",
+               PAPI_VERSION_MAJOR(PAPI_VERSION),
+               PAPI_VERSION_MINOR(PAPI_VERSION),
+               PAPI_VERSION_REVISION(PAPI_VERSION));
+    }
+
+    /*******************************/
+    /* Find the topdown component  */
+    /*******************************/
+    numcmp = PAPI_num_components();
+    for (cid = 0; cid < numcmp; cid++)
+    {
+        if ((cmpinfo = PAPI_get_component_info(cid)) == NULL)
+        {
+            test_fail(__FILE__, __LINE__, "PAPI_get_component_info failed\n", 0);
+        }
+        if (!quiet)
+        {
+            printf("\tComponent %d - %d events - %s\n", cid,
+                   cmpinfo->num_native_events,
+                   cmpinfo->name);
+        }
+        if (strstr(cmpinfo->name, "topdown"))
+        {
+            topdown_cid = cid;
+
+            /* check that the component is enabled */
+            if (cmpinfo->disabled)
+            {
+                printf("Topdown component is disabled: %s\n", cmpinfo->disabled_reason);
+                test_fail(__FILE__, __LINE__, "Component is not enabled\n", 0);
+            }
+        }
+    }
+
+    if (topdown_cid < 0)
+    {
+        test_skip(__FILE__, __LINE__, "Topdown component not found\n", 0);
+    }
+
+    if (!quiet)
+    {
+        printf("\nFound Topdown Component at id %d\n", topdown_cid);
+        printf("\nAdding the level 1 topdown metrics..\n");
+    }
+
+    /* Create EventSet */
+    retval = PAPI_create_eventset(&EventSet);
+    if (retval != PAPI_OK)
+    {
+        test_fail(__FILE__, __LINE__,
+                  "PAPI_create_eventset()", retval);
+    }
+
+    /* Add the level 1 topdown metrics */
+    retval = PAPI_add_named_event(EventSet, "TOPDOWN_RETIRING_PERC");
+    if (retval != PAPI_OK)
+    {
+        test_fail(__FILE__, __LINE__,
+            "Error adding TOPDOWN_RETIRING_PERC", retval);
+    }
+    retval = PAPI_add_named_event(EventSet, "TOPDOWN_BAD_SPEC_PERC");
+    if (retval != PAPI_OK)
+    {
+        test_fail(__FILE__, __LINE__,
+            "Error adding TOPDOWN_BAD_SPEC_PERC", retval);
+    }
+    retval = PAPI_add_named_event(EventSet, "TOPDOWN_FE_BOUND_PERC");
+    if (retval != PAPI_OK)
+    {
+        test_fail(__FILE__, __LINE__,
+            "Error adding TOPDOWN_FE_BOUND_PERC", retval);
+    }
+    retval = PAPI_add_named_event(EventSet, "TOPDOWN_BE_BOUND_PERC");
+    if (retval != PAPI_OK)
+    {
+        test_fail(__FILE__, __LINE__,
+            "Error adding TOPDOWN_BE_BOUND_PERC", retval);
+    }
+
+    /* stat a loop-based calculation of the sum of the fibonacci sequence */
+    /* the workload needs to be fairly large in order to acquire an accurate */
+    /* set of measurements */
+    PAPI_start(EventSet);
+    fib(6000000);
+    PAPI_stop(EventSet, values);
+
+    /* run some sanity checks: */
+
+    /* first, the sum of all level 1 metric percentages should be 100% */
+    tmp = 0;
+    for (i=0; i<NUM_EVENTS; i++) {
+        tmp += *((double *)(&values[i]));
+    }
+    if (!quiet)
+        printf("L1 metric percentages sum to %.2f%%\n", tmp);
+    if (tmp < 100 - PERC_TOLERANCE || tmp > 100 + PERC_TOLERANCE) {
+        test_fail(__FILE__, __LINE__,
+            "Level 1 topdown metric percentages did not sum to 100%%\n", 1);
+    }
+
+    if (!quiet)
+        printf("\tRetiring:\t%.1f%%\n", *((double *)(&values[0])));
+
+    /* next, verify that the percentage of bad spec slots is reasonable. */
+    /* for this benchmark, we can expect very low rate of bad speculation */
+    /* due to the fact that it consists of a simple for loop */
+    if (!quiet)
+        printf("\tBad spec:\t%.1f%%\n", *((double *)(&values[1])));
+    if (*((double *)(&values[1])) > 5.0) {
+        test_warn(__FILE__, __LINE__,
+            "The percentage of slots affected by bad speculation was unexpectedly high", 1);
+    }
+
+    /* finally, make sure the frontend/backend bound percentages make sense */
+    /* we should expect this benchmark to be significantly more limited */
+    /* by the back end, so check that be bound is larger than the fe bound */
+    if (!quiet) {
+        printf("\tFrontend bound:\t%.1f%%\n", *((double *)(&values[2])));
+        printf("\tBackend bound:\t%.1f%%\n", *((double *)(&values[3])));
+
+    }
+    if (*((double *)(&values[2])) > *((double *)(&values[3]))) {
+        test_warn(__FILE__, __LINE__,
+            "Frontend bound should be significantly smaller than backend bound", 1);
+    }
+
+    return 0;
+}