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Message-ID: <20150105193120.GA9167@sundance.lan>
Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2015 19:31:20 +0000
From: Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@...aro.org>
To: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc: Russell King <linux@....linux.org.uk>,
Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>,
Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>,
linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...nel.org>,
patches@...aro.org, linaro-kernel@...ts.linaro.org,
John Stultz <john.stultz@...aro.org>,
Sumit Semwal <sumit.semwal@...aro.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] arm: perf: Prevent wraparound during overflow
On Mon, Jan 05, 2015 at 03:57:39PM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 21, 2014 at 04:24:26PM +0000, Daniel Thompson wrote:
> > diff --git a/arch/arm/kernel/perf_event.c b/arch/arm/kernel/perf_event.c
> > index 266cba46db3e..ab68833c1e31 100644
> > --- a/arch/arm/kernel/perf_event.c
> > +++ b/arch/arm/kernel/perf_event.c
> > @@ -115,8 +115,14 @@ int armpmu_event_set_period(struct perf_event *event)
> > ret = 1;
> > }
> >
> > - if (left > (s64)armpmu->max_period)
> > - left = armpmu->max_period;
> > + /*
> > + * Limit the maximum period to prevent the counter value
> > + * from overtaking the one we are about to program. In
> > + * effect we are reducing max_period to account for
> > + * interrupt latency (and we are being very conservative).
> > + */
> > + if (left > (armpmu->max_period >> 1))
> > + left = armpmu->max_period >> 1;
>
> On x86 we simply half max_period, why did you choose to do differently?
In truth because I didn't look at the x86 code... there is an existing
halving of max_period in the arm code and that was enough to satisfy me
that halving max_period was reasonable.
Predividing max_period looks to me like it would work for ARM too although I
don't think we could blame hardware insanity for doing so ;-).
Will: Do you want me to update this?
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