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author | Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> | 2010-10-15 15:26:01 +0200 |
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committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2010-10-18 19:58:46 +0200 |
commit | c530ccd9a1864a44a7ff35826681229ce9f2357a (patch) | |
tree | 51cb7ae96aa2b6e144686e850255344b2d94b888 | |
parent | f92f6e6ee35d2779aa62e70f78ad8e1cd417eb52 (diff) | |
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perf_events: Fix bogus context time tracking
You can only call update_context_time() when the context
is active, i.e., the thread it is attached to is still running.
However, perf_event_read() can be called even when the context
is inactive, e.g., user read() the counters. The call to
update_context_time() must be conditioned on the status of
the context, otherwise, bogus time_enabled, time_running may
be returned. Here is an example on AMD64. The task program
is an example from libpfm4. The -p prints deltas every 1s.
$ task -p -e cpu_clk_unhalted sleep 5
2,266,610 cpu_clk_unhalted (0.00% scaling, ena=2,158,982, run=2,158,982)
0 cpu_clk_unhalted (0.00% scaling, ena=2,158,982, run=2,158,982)
0 cpu_clk_unhalted (0.00% scaling, ena=2,158,982, run=2,158,982)
0 cpu_clk_unhalted (0.00% scaling, ena=2,158,982, run=2,158,982)
0 cpu_clk_unhalted (0.00% scaling, ena=2,158,982, run=2,158,982)
5,242,358,071 cpu_clk_unhalted (99.95% scaling, ena=5,000,359,984, run=2,319,270)
Whereas if you don't read deltas, e.g., no call to perf_event_read() until
the process terminates:
$ task -e cpu_clk_unhalted sleep 5
2,497,783 cpu_clk_unhalted (0.00% scaling, ena=2,376,899, run=2,376,899)
Notice that time_enable, time_running are bogus in the first example
causing bogus scaling.
This patch fixes the problem, by conditionally calling update_context_time()
in perf_event_read().
Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
LKML-Reference: <4cb856dc.51edd80a.5ae0.38fb@mx.google.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
-rw-r--r-- | kernel/perf_event.c | 8 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/perf_event.c b/kernel/perf_event.c index 1ec3916..e7eeba1 100644 --- a/kernel/perf_event.c +++ b/kernel/perf_event.c @@ -1780,7 +1780,13 @@ static u64 perf_event_read(struct perf_event *event) unsigned long flags; raw_spin_lock_irqsave(&ctx->lock, flags); - update_context_time(ctx); + /* + * may read while context is not active + * (e.g., thread is blocked), in that case + * we cannot update context time + */ + if (ctx->is_active) + update_context_time(ctx); update_event_times(event); raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore(&ctx->lock, flags); } |