Perf-stat tool does not support ipc and ipc_rate monitoring on NVIDIA Grace system

[Brad Figg]

PROBLEM:

While trying to monitor the ipc group for using perf-stat tool, despite it being supported, I get the following errors:
$ sudo perf list | grep ipc
  ipc
  ipc_rate
  retired_ipc
  spec_ipc

$ sudo -S perf stat -a -M ipc -- sudo -S stress-ng --cpu 0 -t 10s
Error:
The sys_perf_event_open() syscall returned with 22 (Invalid argument) for event (instructions).
/bin/dmesg | grep -i perf may provide additional information.
$ sudo -S perf stat -a -M ipc_rate -- sudo -S stress-ng --cpu 0 -t 10s
Error:
The sys_perf_event_open() syscall returned with 22 (Invalid argument) for event (instructions).
/bin/dmesg | grep -i perf may provide additional information.

However, I can get the groups retired_ipc and spec_ipc to work:
$ sudo -S perf stat -a -M retired_ipc -- sudo -S stress-ng --cpu 0 -t 10s
Value 0 contains non-numeric: ' '

 Performance counter stats for 'system wide':

        96,818,964 INST_RETIRED # 0.58 retired_ipc
       166,601,455 CPU_CYCLES

       0.013516186 seconds time elapsed

$ sudo -S perf stat -a -M spec_ipc -- sudo -S stress-ng --cpu 0 -t 10s
Value 0 contains non-numeric: ' '

 Performance counter stats for 'system wide':

        91,053,297 INST_SPEC # 0.58 spec_ipc
       156,558,810 CPU_CYCLES

       0.009877355 seconds time elapsed

SOLUTION:
Please accept the pull request which cherry-picks the following two upstream commits:

d43f5491210197196458c1454f2be0eb66d3e4d1 perf vendor events arm64: Update stall_slot workaround
 for N2 r0p3
4473949074c35072f598bd525ae51d5455f05745 perf vendor events arm64: Update N2 and V2 metrics and
 events using Arm telemetry repo

[Ubuntu Kernel Bot (ubuntu-kernel-bot)]

This bug is awaiting verification that the linux-nvidia-6.5/6.5.0-1021.22 kernel in -proposed solves the problem. Please test the kernel and update this bug with the results. If the problem is solved, change the tag 'verification-needed-jammy-linux-nvidia-6.5' to 'verification-done-jammy-linux-nvidia-6.5'. If the problem still exists, change the tag 'verification-needed-jammy-linux-nvidia-6.5' to 'verification-failed-jammy-linux-nvidia-6.5'.

If verification is not done by 5 working days from today, this fix will be dropped from the source code, and this bug will be closed.

See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Thank you!

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package linux-nvidia-6.5 - 6.5.0-1021.22

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linux-nvidia-6.5 (6.5.0-1021.22) jammy; urgency=medium

  * jammy/linux-nvidia-6.5: 6.5.0-1021.21 -proposed tracker (LP: #2065892)

  * Packaging resync (LP: #1786013)
    - [Packaging] debian.nvidia-6.5/dkms-versions -- update from kernel-versions
      (main/2024.04.29)

  * Address out-of-bounds issue when using TPM SPI interface (LP: #2067429)
    - tpm_tis_spi: Account for SPI header when allocating TPM SPI xfer buffer

  * Perf-stat tool does not support ipc and ipc_rate monitoring on NVIDIA Grace
    system (LP: #2063461)
    - perf vendor events arm64: Update stall_slot workaround for N2 r0p3
    - perf vendor events arm64: Update N2 and V2 metrics and events using Arm
      telemetry repo
    - perf jevents: Add a new expression builtin strcmp_cpuid_str()
    - perf jevents metric: Fix type of strcmp_cpuid_str

  * PCI/MSI: Prevent MSI hardware interrupt number truncation (LP: #2065721)
    - PCI/MSI: Prevent MSI hardware interrupt number truncation

  * Apply patch to set CONFIG_EFI_CAPSULE_LOADER=y for arm64 (LP: #2067111)
    - NVIDIA: [Config] EFI: set CAPSULE_LOADER=y for arm64

  * pull-request: Fixes: b2b56a163230 ("gpio: tegra186: Check GPIO pin
    permission before access.") (LP: #2064549)
    - Revert "NVIDIA: SAUCE: Revert "gpio: tegra186: Check GPIO pin permission
      before access.""
    - gpio: tegra186: Fix tegra186_gpio_is_accessible() check

  [ Ubuntu: 6.5.0-41.41 ]

  * mantic/linux: 6.5.0-41.41 -proposed tracker (LP: #2065893)
  * CVE-2024-21823
    - VFIO: Add the SPR_DSA and SPR_IAX devices to the denylist
    - dmaengine: idxd: add a new security check to deal with a hardware erratum
    - dmaengine: idxd: add a write() method for applications to submit work

  [ Ubuntu: 6.5.0-40.40 ]

  * mantic/linux: 6.5.0-40.40 -proposed tracker (LP: #2063709)
  * [Mantic] Compile broken on armhf (cc1 out of memory) (LP: #2060446)
    - Revert "minmax: relax check to allow comparison between unsigned arguments
      and signed constants"
    - Revert "minmax: allow comparisons of 'int' against 'unsigned char/short'"
    - Revert "minmax: allow min()/max()/clamp() if the arguments have the same
      signedness."
    - Revert "minmax: add umin(a, b) and umax(a, b)"
  * Drop fips-checks script from trees (LP: #2055083)
    - [Packaging] Remove fips-checks script
  * alsa/realtek: adjust max output valume for headphone on 2 LG machines
    (LP: #2058573)
    - ALSA: hda/realtek: fix the hp playback volume issue for LG machines
  * Mantic update: upstream stable patchset 2024-03-27 (LP: #2059284)
    - asm-generic: make sparse happy with odd-sized put_unaligned_*()
    - powerpc/mm: Fix null-pointer dereference in pgtable_cache_add
    - arm64: irq: set the correct node for VMAP stack
    - drivers/perf: pmuv3: don't expose SW_INCR event in sysfs
    - powerpc: Fix build error due to is_valid_bugaddr()
    - powerpc/mm: Fix build failures due to arch_reserved_kernel_pages()
    - powerpc/64s: Fix CONFIG_NUMA=n build due to create_section_mapping()
    - x86/boot: Ignore NMIs during very early boot
    - powerpc: pmd_move_must_withdraw() is on...