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Commit 89e97eb8 authored by Kan Liang's avatar Kan Liang Committed by Peter Zijlstra
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perf/x86/intel/ds: Fix the conversion from TSC to perf time



The time order is incorrect when the TSC in a PEBS record is used.

 $perf record -e cycles:upp dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/null
  count=10000
 $ perf script --show-task-events
       perf-exec     0     0.000000: PERF_RECORD_COMM: perf-exec:915/915
              dd   915   106.479872: PERF_RECORD_COMM exec: dd:915/915
              dd   915   106.483270: PERF_RECORD_EXIT(915:915):(914:914)
              dd   915   106.512429:          1 cycles:upp:
 ffffffff96c011b7 [unknown] ([unknown])
 ... ...

The perf time is from sched_clock_cpu(). The current PEBS code
unconditionally convert the TSC to native_sched_clock(). There is a
shift between the two clocks. If the TSC is stable, the shift is
consistent, __sched_clock_offset. If the TSC is unstable, the shift has
to be calculated at runtime.

This patch doesn't support the conversion when the TSC is unstable. The
TSC unstable case is a corner case and very unlikely to happen. If it
happens, the TSC in a PEBS record will be dropped and fall back to
perf_event_clock().

Fixes: 47a3aeb3 ("perf/x86/intel/pebs: Fix PEBS timestamps overwritten")
Reported-by: default avatarNamhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarKan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarPeter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAM9d7cgWDVAq8-11RbJ2uGfwkKD6fA-OMwOKDrNUrU_=8MgEjg@mail.gmail.com/
parent 5d515ee4
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