Commit 7ba8fa20 authored by Adrian Hunter's avatar Adrian Hunter Committed by Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf intel-pt: Fix instructions sampling rate

The timestamp used to determine if an instruction sample is made, is an
estimate based on the number of instructions since the last known
timestamp. A consequence is that it might go backwards, which results in
extra samples. Change it so that a sample is only made when the
timestamp goes forwards.

Note this does not affect a sampling period of 0 or sampling periods
specified as a count of instructions.

Example:

 Before:

 $ perf script --itrace=i10us
 ls 13812 [003] 2167315.222583:       3270 instructions:u:      7fac71e2e494 __GI___tunables_init+0xf4 (/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/ld-2.28.so)
 ls 13812 [003] 2167315.222667:      30902 instructions:u:      7fac71e2da0f _dl_cache_libcmp+0x2f (/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/ld-2.28.so)
 ls 13812 [003] 2167315.222667:         10 instructions:u:      7fac71e2d9ff _dl_cache_libcmp+0x1f (/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/ld-2.28.so)
 ls 13812 [003] 2167315.222667:          8 instructions:u:      7fac71e2d9ea _dl_cache_libcmp+0xa (/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/ld-2.28.so)
 ls 13812 [003] 2167315.222667:         14 instructions:u:      7fac71e2d9ea _dl_cache_libcmp+0xa (/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/ld-2.28.so)
 ls 13812 [003] 2167315.222667:          6 instructions:u:      7fac71e2d9ff _dl_cache_libcmp+0x1f (/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/ld-2.28.so)
 ls 13812 [003] 2167315.222667:         14 instructions:u:      7fac71e2d9ff _dl_cache_libcmp+0x1f (/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/ld-2.28.so)
 ls 13812 [003] 2167315.222667:          4 instructions:u:      7fac71e2dab2 _dl_cache_libcmp+0xd2 (/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/ld-2.28.so)
 ls 13812 [003] 2167315.222728:      16423 instructions:u:      7fac71e2477a _dl_map_object_deps+0x1ba (/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/ld-2.28.so)
 ls 13812 [003] 2167315.222734:      12731 instructions:u:      7fac71e27938 _dl_name_match_p+0x68 (/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/ld-2.28.so)
 ...

 After:
 $ perf script --itrace=i10us
 ls 13812 [003] 2167315.222583:       3270 instructions:u:      7fac71e2e494 __GI___tunables_init+0xf4 (/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/ld-2.28.so)
 ls 13812 [003] 2167315.222667:      30902 instructions:u:      7fac71e2da0f _dl_cache_libcmp+0x2f (/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/ld-2.28.so)
 ls 13812 [003] 2167315.222728:      16479 instructions:u:      7fac71e2477a _dl_map_object_deps+0x1ba (/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/ld-2.28.so)
 ...
Signed-off-by: default avatarAdrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: f4aa0819 ("perf tools: Add Intel PT decoder")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190510124143.27054-2-adrian.hunter@intel.comSigned-off-by: default avatarArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
parent 6466ec14
......@@ -888,16 +888,20 @@ static uint64_t intel_pt_next_period(struct intel_pt_decoder *decoder)
timestamp = decoder->timestamp + decoder->timestamp_insn_cnt;
masked_timestamp = timestamp & decoder->period_mask;
if (decoder->continuous_period) {
if (masked_timestamp != decoder->last_masked_timestamp)
if (masked_timestamp > decoder->last_masked_timestamp)
return 1;
} else {
timestamp += 1;
masked_timestamp = timestamp & decoder->period_mask;
if (masked_timestamp != decoder->last_masked_timestamp) {
if (masked_timestamp > decoder->last_masked_timestamp) {
decoder->last_masked_timestamp = masked_timestamp;
decoder->continuous_period = true;
}
}
if (masked_timestamp < decoder->last_masked_timestamp)
return decoder->period_ticks;
return decoder->period_ticks - (timestamp - masked_timestamp);
}
......@@ -926,7 +930,10 @@ static void intel_pt_sample_insn(struct intel_pt_decoder *decoder)
case INTEL_PT_PERIOD_TICKS:
timestamp = decoder->timestamp + decoder->timestamp_insn_cnt;
masked_timestamp = timestamp & decoder->period_mask;
decoder->last_masked_timestamp = masked_timestamp;
if (masked_timestamp > decoder->last_masked_timestamp)
decoder->last_masked_timestamp = masked_timestamp;
else
decoder->last_masked_timestamp += decoder->period_ticks;
break;
case INTEL_PT_PERIOD_NONE:
case INTEL_PT_PERIOD_MTC:
......
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