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author | Namhyung Kim <namhyung.kim@lge.com> | 2013-03-18 06:41:46 +0400 |
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committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> | 2013-03-18 12:15:18 +0400 |
commit | 778141e3cf0bf29f91cd3cb5c314ea477b9402a7 (patch) | |
tree | de069a0bae57f6f3172cd9958dd2c40148950a4d /kernel/events | |
parent | 0b34083f46c3784c6535dc9742dc13653ec1908d (diff) | |
download | linux-778141e3cf0bf29f91cd3cb5c314ea477b9402a7.tar.xz |
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.c | 1 |
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; } } |