perf: Reset hwc->last_period on sw clock events
When cpu/task clock events are initialized, their sampling frequencies are converted to have a fixed value. However it missed to update the hwc->last_period which was set to 1 for initial sampling frequency calibration. Because this hwc->last_period value is used as a period in perf_swevent_ hrtime(), every recorded sample will have an incorrected period of 1. $ perf record -e task-clock noploop 1 [ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ] [ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.158 MB perf.data (~6919 samples) ] $ perf report -n --show-total-period --stdio # Samples: 4K of event 'task-clock' # Event count (approx.): 4000 # # Overhead Samples Period Command Shared Object Symbol # ........ ............ ............ ....... ............. .................. # 99.95% 3998 3998 noploop noploop [.] main 0.03% 1 1 noploop libc-2.15.so [.] init_cacheinfo 0.03% 1 1 noploop ld-2.15.so [.] open_verify Note that it doesn't affect the non-sampling event so that the perf stat still gets correct value with or without this patch. $ perf stat -e task-clock noploop 1 Performance counter stats for 'noploop 1': 1000.272525 task-clock # 1.000 CPUs utilized 1.000560605 seconds time elapsed Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@ghostprotocols.net> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung.kim@lge.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1363574507-18808-1-git-send-email-namhyung@kernel.orgSigned-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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