Commit fec952af authored by Adrian Hunter's avatar Adrian Hunter Committed by Stefan Bader

perf intel-pt: Fix timestamp following overflow

BugLink: http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1768429

commit 91d29b28 upstream.

timestamp_insn_cnt is used to estimate the timestamp based on the number of
instructions since the last known timestamp.

If the estimate is not accurate enough decoding might not be correctly
synchronized with side-band events causing more trace errors.

However there are always timestamps following an overflow, so the
estimate is not needed and can indeed result in more errors.

Suppress the estimate by setting timestamp_insn_cnt to zero.
Signed-off-by: default avatarAdrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1520431349-30689-5-git-send-email-adrian.hunter@intel.comSigned-off-by: default avatarArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJuerg Haefliger <juergh@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarKleber Sacilotto de Souza <kleber.souza@canonical.com>
parent a390435c
......@@ -1270,6 +1270,7 @@ static int intel_pt_overflow(struct intel_pt_decoder *decoder)
intel_pt_clear_tx_flags(decoder);
decoder->have_tma = false;
decoder->cbr = 0;
decoder->timestamp_insn_cnt = 0;
decoder->pkt_state = INTEL_PT_STATE_ERR_RESYNC;
decoder->overflow = true;
return -EOVERFLOW;
......
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