Re: [PATCH] perf/rapl: restart perf rapl counter after resume

[Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>]

On Mon, Jun 17, 2019 at 09:41:37PM +0800, Zhang Rui wrote:

> After S3 suspend/resume, "perf stat -I 1000 -e power/energy-pkg/ -a"
> reports an insane value for the very first sampling period after resume
> as shown below.
> 
>     19.278989977               2.16 Joules power/energy-pkg/
>     20.279373569               1.96 Joules power/energy-pkg/
>     21.279765481               2.09 Joules power/energy-pkg/
>     22.280305420               2.10 Joules power/energy-pkg/
>     25.504782277   4,294,966,686.01 Joules power/energy-pkg/
>     26.505114993               3.58 Joules power/energy-pkg/
>     27.505471758               1.66 Joules power/energy-pkg/
> 
> Fix this by resetting the counter right after resume.

Cute...


> +#ifdef CONFIG_PM
> +
> +static int perf_rapl_suspend(void)
> +{
> +	int i;
> +
> +	get_online_cpus();
> +	for (i = 0; i < rapl_pmus->maxpkg; i++)
> +		rapl_pmu_update_all(rapl_pmus->pmus[i]);
> +	put_online_cpus();
> +	return 0;
> +}
> +
> +static void perf_rapl_resume(void)
> +{
> +	int i;
> +
> +	get_online_cpus();
> +	for (i = 0; i < rapl_pmus->maxpkg; i++)
> +		rapl_pmu_restart_all(rapl_pmus->pmus[i]);
> +	put_online_cpus();
> +}

What's the reason for that get/put_online_cpus() here ?