From: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
To: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [RESEND PATCH] perf intel-pt: Fix TSC slip
Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2019 15:51:35 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190325135135.18348-1-adrian.hunter@intel.com> (raw)
A TSC packet can slip past MTC packets so that the timestamp appears to go
backwards. One estimate is that can be up to about 40 CPU cycles, which is
certainly less than 0x1000 TSC ticks, but accept slippage an order of
magnitude more to be on the safe side.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Fixes: 79b58424b821c ("perf tools: Add Intel PT support for decoding MTC packets")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
---
.../util/intel-pt-decoder/intel-pt-decoder.c | 20 ++++++++-----------
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)
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 6e03db142091..872fab163585 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/intel-pt-decoder/intel-pt-decoder.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/intel-pt-decoder/intel-pt-decoder.c
@@ -251,19 +251,15 @@ struct intel_pt_decoder *intel_pt_decoder_new(struct intel_pt_params *params)
if (!(decoder->tsc_ctc_ratio_n % decoder->tsc_ctc_ratio_d))
decoder->tsc_ctc_mult = decoder->tsc_ctc_ratio_n /
decoder->tsc_ctc_ratio_d;
-
- /*
- * Allow for timestamps appearing to backwards because a TSC
- * packet has slipped past a MTC packet, so allow 2 MTC ticks
- * or ...
- */
- decoder->tsc_slip = multdiv(2 << decoder->mtc_shift,
- decoder->tsc_ctc_ratio_n,
- decoder->tsc_ctc_ratio_d);
}
- /* ... or 0x100 paranoia */
- if (decoder->tsc_slip < 0x100)
- decoder->tsc_slip = 0x100;
+
+ /*
+ * A TSC packet can slip past MTC packets so that the timestamp appears
+ * to go backwards. One estimate is that can be up to about 40 CPU
+ * cycles, which is certainly less than 0x1000 TSC ticks, but accept
+ * slippage an order of magnitude more to be on the safe side.
+ */
+ decoder->tsc_slip = 0x10000;
intel_pt_log("timestamp: mtc_shift %u\n", decoder->mtc_shift);
intel_pt_log("timestamp: tsc_ctc_ratio_n %u\n", decoder->tsc_ctc_ratio_n);
--
2.17.1
next reply other threads:[~2019-03-25 13:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-03-25 13:51 Adrian Hunter [this message]
2019-03-25 14:50 ` [RESEND PATCH] perf intel-pt: Fix TSC slip Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2019-03-29 20:35 ` [tip:perf/urgent] " tip-bot for Adrian Hunter
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