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Kan Liang 014ac8861c perf/x86/intel: Fix inaccurate period in context switch for auto-reload 
commit f861854e1b upstream.

Perf doesn't take the left period into account when auto-reload is
enabled with fixed period sampling mode in context switch.

Here is the MSR trace of the perf command as below.
(The MSR trace is simplified from a ftrace log.)

    #perf record -e cycles:p -c 2000000 -- ./triad_loop

      //The MSR trace of task schedule out
      //perf disable all counters, disable PEBS, disable GP counter 0,
      //read GP counter 0, and re-enable all counters.
      //The counter 0 stops at 0xfffffff82840
      write_msr: MSR_CORE_PERF_GLOBAL_CTRL(38f), value 0
      write_msr: MSR_IA32_PEBS_ENABLE(3f1), value 0
      write_msr: MSR_P6_EVNTSEL0(186), value 40003003c
      rdpmc: 0, value fffffff82840
      write_msr: MSR_CORE_PERF_GLOBAL_CTRL(38f), value f000000ff

      //The MSR trace of the same task schedule in again
      //perf disable all counters, enable and set GP counter 0,
      //enable PEBS, and re-enable all counters.
      //0xffffffe17b80 (-2000000) is written to GP counter 0.
      write_msr: MSR_CORE_PERF_GLOBAL_CTRL(38f), value 0
      write_msr: MSR_IA32_PMC0(4c1), value ffffffe17b80
      write_msr: MSR_P6_EVNTSEL0(186), value 40043003c
      write_msr: MSR_IA32_PEBS_ENABLE(3f1), value 1
      write_msr: MSR_CORE_PERF_GLOBAL_CTRL(38f), value f000000ff

When the same task schedule in again, the counter should starts from
previous left. However, it starts from the fixed period -2000000 again.

A special variant of intel_pmu_save_and_restart() is used for
auto-reload, which doesn't update the hwc->period_left.
When the monitored task schedules in again, perf doesn't know the left
period. The fixed period is used, which is inaccurate.

With auto-reload, the counter always has a negative counter value. So
the left period is -value. Update the period_left in
intel_pmu_save_and_restart_reload().

With the patch:

      //The MSR trace of task schedule out
      write_msr: MSR_CORE_PERF_GLOBAL_CTRL(38f), value 0
      write_msr: MSR_IA32_PEBS_ENABLE(3f1), value 0
      write_msr: MSR_P6_EVNTSEL0(186), value 40003003c
      rdpmc: 0, value ffffffe25cbc
      write_msr: MSR_CORE_PERF_GLOBAL_CTRL(38f), value f000000ff

      //The MSR trace of the same task schedule in again
      write_msr: MSR_CORE_PERF_GLOBAL_CTRL(38f), value 0
      write_msr: MSR_IA32_PMC0(4c1), value ffffffe25cbc
      write_msr: MSR_P6_EVNTSEL0(186), value 40043003c
      write_msr: MSR_IA32_PEBS_ENABLE(3f1), value 1
      write_msr: MSR_CORE_PERF_GLOBAL_CTRL(38f), value f000000ff

Fixes: d31fc13fdc ("perf/x86/intel: Fix event update for auto-reload")
Signed-off-by: Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200121190125.3389-1-kan.liang@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
History 2020-02-19 19:54:10 +01:00
arch perf/x86/intel: Fix inaccurate period in context switch for auto-reload 2020-02-19 19:54:10 +01:00
block compat: scsi: sg: fix v3 compat read/write interface 2020-02-11 04:37:17 -08:00
certs certs: Add wrapper function to check blacklisted binary hash 2019-11-12 12:25:50 +11:00
crypto crypto: testmgr - don't try to decrypt uninitialized buffers 2020-02-14 16:53:04 -05:00
Documentation dt-bindings: iio: adc: ad7606: Fix wrong maxItems value 2020-02-14 16:53:05 -05:00
drivers spmi: pmic-arb: Set lockdep class for hierarchical irq domains 2020-02-19 19:54:10 +01:00
fs jbd2: do not clear the BH_Mapped flag when forgetting a metadata buffer 2020-02-19 19:54:05 +01:00
include mac80211: use more bits for ack_frame_id 2020-02-19 19:54:10 +01:00
init Revert "um: Enable CONFIG_CONSTRUCTORS" 2020-02-01 09:33:00 +00:00
ipc ipc/msg.c: consolidate all xxxctl_down() functions 2020-02-11 04:36:39 -08:00
kernel sched/uclamp: Reject negative values in cpu_uclamp_write() 2020-02-19 19:54:10 +01:00
lib lib/test_kasan.c: fix memory leak in kmalloc_oob_krealloc_more() 2020-02-11 04:36:45 -08:00
LICENSES LICENSES: Rename other to deprecated 2019-05-03 06:34:32 -06:00
mm mm/mmu_gather: invalidate TLB correctly on batch allocation failure and flush 2020-02-11 04:37:14 -08:00
net mac80211: use more bits for ack_frame_id 2020-02-19 19:54:10 +01:00
samples samples/bpf: Reintroduce missed build targets 2020-02-11 04:37:00 -08:00
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security selinux: fall back to ref-walk if audit is required 2020-02-14 16:53:07 -05:00
sound ALSA: usb-audio: Apply sample rate quirk for Audioengine D1 2020-02-19 19:54:01 +01:00
tools tools/power/acpi: fix compilation error 2020-02-14 16:53:02 -05:00
usr gen_initramfs_list.sh: fix 'bad variable name' error 2020-01-04 00:00:48 +09:00
virt KVM: arm64: Treat emulated TVAL TimerValue as a signed 32-bit integer 2020-02-14 16:53:04 -05:00
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README Drop all 00-INDEX files from Documentation/ 2018-09-09 15:08:58 -06:00

README 

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
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    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
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Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.