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    ARM: 7354/1: perf: limit sample_period to half max_period in non-sampling mode · 57273471
    Will Deacon authored
    On ARM, the PMU does not stop counting after an overflow and therefore
    IRQ latency affects the new counter value read by the kernel. This is
    significant for non-sampling runs where it is possible for the new value
    to overtake the previous one, causing the delta to be out by up to
    max_period events.
    
    Commit a737823d ("ARM: 6835/1: perf: ensure overflows aren't missed due
    to IRQ latency") attempted to fix this problem by allowing interrupt
    handlers to pass an overflow flag to the event update function, causing
    the overflow calculation to assume that the counter passed through zero
    when going from prev to new. Unfortunately, this doesn't work when
    overflow occurs on the perf_task_tick path because we have the flag
    cleared and end up computing a large negative delta.
    
    This patch removes the overflow flag from armpmu_event_update and
    instead limits the sample_period to half of the max_period for
    non-sampling profiling runs.
    
    Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarMing Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarWill Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarRussell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
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