From 7f310a5d4e8525ac0cc2f58c973d2100ce034410 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Eric B Munson Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2011 16:34:38 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] perf_event: Fix broken calc_timer_values() We detected a serious issue with PERF_SAMPLE_READ and timing information when events were being multiplexing. Samples would have time_running > time_enabled. That was easy to reproduce with a libpfm4 example (ran 3 times to cause multiplexing on Core 2): $ syst_smpl -e uops_retired:freq=1 & $ syst_smpl -e uops_retired:freq=1 & $ syst_smpl -e uops_retired:freq=1 & IIP:0x0000000040062d ... PERIOD:2355332948 ENA=40144625315 RUN=60014875184 syst_smpl: WARNING: time_running > time_enabled 63277537998 uops_retired:freq=1 , scaled The bug was not present in kernel up to (and including) 3.0. It turns out the bug was introduced by the following commit: commit c4794295917ebeda8013b6cb9c8d71ab4f74a1fa events: Move lockless timer calculation into helper function The parameters of the function got reversed yet the call sites were not updated to reflect the change. That lead to time_running and time_enabled being swapped. That had no effect when there was no multiplexing because in that case time_running = time_enabled but it would show up in any other scenario. Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110829124112.GA4828@quad Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- kernel/events/core.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/kernel/events/core.c b/kernel/events/core.c index 45847fbb599a..0f857782d06f 100644 --- a/kernel/events/core.c +++ b/kernel/events/core.c @@ -3396,8 +3396,8 @@ static int perf_event_index(struct perf_event *event) } static void calc_timer_values(struct perf_event *event, - u64 *running, - u64 *enabled) + u64 *enabled, + u64 *running) { u64 now, ctx_time;