From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Subject: [PATCH 51/53] perf intel-pt: Fix CYC timestamp calculation after OVF Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2019 15:49:01 -0300 Message-ID: <20190206184903.24054-52-acme@kernel.org> References: <20190206184903.24054-1-acme@kernel.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20190206184903.24054-1-acme@kernel.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Ingo Molnar Cc: Jiri Olsa , Namhyung Kim , Clark Williams , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-perf-users@vger.kernel.org, Adrian Hunter , Jiri Olsa , stable@vger.kernel.org, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo List-Id: linux-perf-users.vger.kernel.org From: Adrian Hunter CYC packet timestamp calculation depends upon CBR which was being cleared upon overflow (OVF). That can cause errors due to failing to synchronize with sideband events. Even if a CBR change has been lost, the old CBR is still a better estimate than zero. So remove the clearing of CBR. Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190206103947.15750-4-adrian.hunter@intel.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo --- tools/perf/util/intel-pt-decoder/intel-pt-decoder.c | 1 - 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/tools/perf/util/intel-pt-decoder/intel-pt-decoder.c b/tools/perf/util/intel-pt-decoder/intel-pt-decoder.c index ecd25cdc1d3e..a54d6c9a4601 100644 --- a/tools/perf/util/intel-pt-decoder/intel-pt-decoder.c +++ b/tools/perf/util/intel-pt-decoder/intel-pt-decoder.c @@ -1395,7 +1395,6 @@ static int intel_pt_overflow(struct intel_pt_decoder *decoder) { intel_pt_log("ERROR: Buffer overflow\n"); intel_pt_clear_tx_flags(decoder); - decoder->cbr = 0; decoder->timestamp_insn_cnt = 0; decoder->pkt_state = INTEL_PT_STATE_ERR_RESYNC; decoder->overflow = true; -- 2.20.1