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SubjectRe: [PATCH V3 1/5] perf/x86/intel: fix event update for auto-reload
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On 2/9/2018 9:09 AM, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 06, 2018 at 12:58:23PM -0500, Liang, Kan wrote:
>>
>>
>>> With the exception of handling 'empty' buffers, I ended up with the
>>> below. Please try again.
>>>
>>
>> There are two small errors. After fixing them, the patch works well.
>
> Well, it still doesn't do A, two read()s without PEBS record in between.
> So that needs fixing. What 3/5 does, call x86_perf_event_update() after
> drain_pebs() is actively wrong after this patch.
>

As my understanding, for case A, drain_pebs() will return immediately.
It cannot reach the patch.
Because there is no PEBS record ready. So the ds->pebs_index should be
the same as ds->pebs_buffer_base.

3/5 is to handle case A.

Thanks,
Kan

>>> +
>>> + /*
>>> + * Careful, not all hw sign-extends above the physical width
>>> + * of the counter.
>>> + */
>>> + delta = (new_raw_count << shift) - (prev_raw_count << shift);
>>> + delta >>= shift;
>>
>> new_raw_count could be smaller than prev_raw_count.
>> The sign bit will be set. The delta>> could be wrong.
>>
>> I think we can add a period here to prevent it.
>> + delta = (period << shift) + (new_raw_count << shift) -
>> + (prev_raw_count << shift);
>> + delta >>= shift;
>> ......
>> + local64_add(delta + period * (count - 1), &event->count);
>>
>
> Right it does, but that wrecks case A again, because then we get here
> with !@count.
>
> Maybe something like:
>
>
> s64 new, old;
>
> new = ((s64)(new_raw_count << shift) >> shift);
> old = ((s64)(old_raw_count << shift) >> shift);
>
> local64_add(new - old + count * period, &event->count);
>
>
> And then make intel_pmu_drain_pebs_*(), call this function even when !n.
>

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