linux-kernel - [PATCH] powerpc: perf: power_pmu_start restores incorrect values, breaking frequency events

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Date:	Thu, 16 Feb 2012 15:48:22 +1100
From:	Anton Blanchard <anton@...ba.org>
To:	eranian@...gle.com, paulus@...ba.org, peterz@...radead.org,
	mingo@...e.hu, gleb@...hat.com, wcohen@...hat.com,
	vince@...ter.net, asharma@...com, andi@...stfloor.org,
	emunson@...bm.net, imunsie@....ibm.com, benh@...nel.crashing.org,
	sukadev@...ux.vnet.ibm.com
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org
Subject: [PATCH] powerpc: perf: power_pmu_start restores incorrect values,
 breaking frequency events


perf on POWER stopped working after commit e050e3f0a71b (perf: Fix
broken interrupt rate throttling). That patch exposed a bug in
the POWER perf_events code.

Since the PMCs count upwards and take an exception when the top bit
is set, we want to write 0x80000000 - left in power_pmu_start. We were
instead programming in left which effectively disables the counter
until we eventually hit 0x80000000. This could take seconds or longer.

With the patch applied I get the expected number of samples:

# taskset -c 0 yes > /dev/null &
# perf record -C 0 -a sleep 10
# perf report -D | grep SAMPLE | tail -1
          SAMPLE events:       9948

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@...ba.org>
---
Cc: <stable@...nel.org>

Index: linux-build/arch/powerpc/kernel/perf_event.c
===================================================================
--- linux-build.orig/arch/powerpc/kernel/perf_event.c	2012-02-16 15:07:57.465384699 +1100
+++ linux-build/arch/powerpc/kernel/perf_event.c	2012-02-16 15:11:48.449579581 +1100
@@ -865,6 +865,7 @@ static void power_pmu_start(struct perf_
 {
 	unsigned long flags;
 	s64 left;
+	unsigned long val;
 
 	if (!event->hw.idx || !event->hw.sample_period)
 		return;
@@ -880,7 +881,12 @@ static void power_pmu_start(struct perf_
 
 	event->hw.state = 0;
 	left = local64_read(&event->hw.period_left);
-	write_pmc(event->hw.idx, left);
+
+	val = 0;
+	if (left < 0x80000000L)
+		val = 0x80000000L - left;
+
+	write_pmc(event->hw.idx, val);
 
 	perf_event_update_userpage(event);
 	perf_pmu_enable(event->pmu);
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