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authorNamhyung Kim <namhyung.kim@lge.com>2013-03-18 11:41:46 +0900
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>2013-03-18 09:15:18 +0100
commit778141e3cf0bf29f91cd3cb5c314ea477b9402a7 (patch)
treede069a0bae57f6f3172cd9958dd2c40148950a4d /kernel/events
parent0b34083f46c3784c6535dc9742dc13653ec1908d (diff)
perf: Reset hwc->last_period on sw clock events
When cpu/task clock events are initialized, their sampling frequencies are converted to have a fixed value. However it missed to update the hwc->last_period which was set to 1 for initial sampling frequency calibration. Because this hwc->last_period value is used as a period in perf_swevent_ hrtime(), every recorded sample will have an incorrected period of 1. $ perf record -e task-clock noploop 1 [ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ] [ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.158 MB perf.data (~6919 samples) ] $ perf report -n --show-total-period --stdio # Samples: 4K of event 'task-clock' # Event count (approx.): 4000 # # Overhead Samples Period Command Shared Object Symbol # ........ ............ ............ ....... ............. .................. # 99.95% 3998 3998 noploop noploop [.] main 0.03% 1 1 noploop libc-2.15.so [.] init_cacheinfo 0.03% 1 1 noploop ld-2.15.so [.] open_verify Note that it doesn't affect the non-sampling event so that the perf stat still gets correct value with or without this patch. $ perf stat -e task-clock noploop 1 Performance counter stats for 'noploop 1': 1000.272525 task-clock # 1.000 CPUs utilized 1.000560605 seconds time elapsed Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@ghostprotocols.net> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung.kim@lge.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1363574507-18808-1-git-send-email-namhyung@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/events')
-rw-r--r--kernel/events/core.c1
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/events/core.c b/kernel/events/core.c
index b0cd86501c30..fa79c377d65d 100644
--- a/kernel/events/core.c
+++ b/kernel/events/core.c
@@ -5647,6 +5647,7 @@ static void perf_swevent_init_hrtimer(struct perf_event *event)
event->attr.sample_period = NSEC_PER_SEC / freq;
hwc->sample_period = event->attr.sample_period;
local64_set(&hwc->period_left, hwc->sample_period);
+ hwc->last_period = hwc->sample_period;
event->attr.freq = 0;
}
}