SDE(9.7.0 external) could not capture AVX512-SSE transition event

[Huaqiang_W_Intel]

Got the message that for CPU shifting from AVX/AVX512 power lane to SSE power lane, if there is no 'vzeroupper' instruction invoked, a very long (tens of cycles) penalty will generated.  With my simple test code,  I found the AVX512 to SSE transition could not be captured by SDE9.7.0, but it could be recognized by emon. Please have an investigation.

Huaqiang

Thanks.

My test code:

// ---- test code -----

int main(){
       std::cout << "AVX-SSE Penalty" << std::endl;

       asm("vzeroupper");

       // AVX512 -> SSE -> AVX512
       asm("vbroadcastsd (%rbp), %zmm0");
       asm("movq  %rax, %xmm8");
       asm("vbroadcastsd (%rbp), %zmm0");

       asm("vzeroupper");

       return 0;
}

---- EMON Test Result: ---- 

2 ASSISTS.SSE_AVX_MIX event captured

ASSISTS.SSE_AVX_MIX also reports the event for AVX512-SSE transition.

(base) [root@host avx-sse]# emon -C "ASSISTS.SSE_AVX_MIX" /bin/taskset -c 1 ./ast-penalty

AVX-SSE Penalty
Version Info: V11.34  (May  1 2022 at 22:02:55) Intel(R) Xeon(R) Processor code named Sapphirerapids M:143 S:3

ASSISTS.SSE_AVX_MIX     5,700,234,584   0       2       0       0       0       0       0       0       0       0       0

 ---- Sde64 result ----

[No AVX-SSE transition found]

(base) [root@host avx-sse]# sde64 -ast -- ./ast-penalty
AVX-SSE Penalty       
(base) [root@host avx-sse]# tail -n 10 sde-avx-sse-transition-out.txt  
          Block   Transition   Transition   Icount Executions   Icount            Block            Block  
================ ============ ============ ======== ========== ======== ================ ================  
# SUMMARY  
# AVX_to_SSE_transition_instances:        0
# SSE_to_AVX_transition_instances:        0
# Dynamic_insts:                          2803115
# AVX_to_SSE_instances/instruction:       0.0000
# SSE_to_AVX_instances/instruction:       0.0000
# AVX_to_SSE_instances/100instructions:   0.0000
# SSE_to_AVX_instances/100instructions:   0.0000

[AdyT_Intel]

The AVX-SSE transition checker was developed at the Intel AVX time frame (before AVX-512) and was never updated to support also Intel AVX-512 instructions. We will check the option of adding this support.

[Huaqiang_W_Intel]

SDE and the Pintool are a great tools, very like to use it. Thanks your team for bringing them out! Hope to have new feature also!