perf/x86: Fix full width counter, counter overflow
authorPeter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Tue, 29 Nov 2016 20:33:28 +0000 (20:33 +0000)
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Tue, 6 Dec 2016 08:44:28 +0000 (09:44 +0100)
Lukasz reported that perf stat counters overflow handling is broken on KNL/SLM.

Both these parts have full_width_write set, and that does indeed have
a problem. In order to deal with counter wrap, we must sample the
counter at at least half the counter period (see also the sampling
theorem) such that we can unambiguously reconstruct the count.

However commit:

  069e0c3c4058 ("perf/x86/intel: Support full width counting")

sets the sampling interval to the full period, not half.

Fixing that exposes another issue, in that we must not sign extend the
delta value when we shift it right; the counter cannot have
decremented after all.

With both these issues fixed, counter overflow functions correctly
again.

Reported-by: Lukasz Odzioba <lukasz.odzioba@intel.com>
Tested-by: Liang, Kan <kan.liang@intel.com>
Tested-by: Odzioba, Lukasz <lukasz.odzioba@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 069e0c3c4058 ("perf/x86/intel: Support full width counting")
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
arch/x86/events/core.c
arch/x86/events/intel/core.c

index 9d4bf3a..6e395c9 100644 (file)
@@ -69,7 +69,7 @@ u64 x86_perf_event_update(struct perf_event *event)
        int shift = 64 - x86_pmu.cntval_bits;
        u64 prev_raw_count, new_raw_count;
        int idx = hwc->idx;
-       s64 delta;
+       u64 delta;
 
        if (idx == INTEL_PMC_IDX_FIXED_BTS)
                return 0;
index a74a2db..cb85222 100644 (file)
@@ -4034,7 +4034,7 @@ __init int intel_pmu_init(void)
 
        /* Support full width counters using alternative MSR range */
        if (x86_pmu.intel_cap.full_width_write) {
-               x86_pmu.max_period = x86_pmu.cntval_mask;
+               x86_pmu.max_period = x86_pmu.cntval_mask >> 1;
                x86_pmu.perfctr = MSR_IA32_PMC0;
                pr_cont("full-width counters, ");
        }