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* [PATCH 1/2] perf: Reset hwc->last_period on sw clock events
@ 2013-03-18  2:41 Namhyung Kim
  2013-03-18  2:41 ` [PATCH 2/2] perf tests: Add a test case for checking sw clock event frequency Namhyung Kim
  2013-03-18 11:06 ` [tip:perf/urgent] perf: Reset hwc->last_period on sw clock events tip-bot for Namhyung Kim
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From: Namhyung Kim @ 2013-03-18  2:41 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Peter Zijlstra, Ingo Molnar
  Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo, Jiri Olsa, LKML, Namhyung Kim

From: Namhyung Kim <namhyung.kim@lge.com>

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>
---
 kernel/events/core.c | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/kernel/events/core.c b/kernel/events/core.c
index c38feef0d683..ac418e88b8a9 100644
--- a/kernel/events/core.c
+++ b/kernel/events/core.c
@@ -5659,6 +5659,7 @@ 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;
 	}
 }
-- 
1.7.11.7


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