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Deng-Cheng Zhu committed ba9786f3247
MIPS, Perf-events: Use unsigned delta for right shift in event update
Leverage the commit for ARM by Will Deacon:
- 446a5a8b1eb91a6990e5c8fe29f14e7a95b69132
ARM: 6205/1: perf: ensure counter delta is treated as unsigned
Hardware performance counters on ARM are 32-bits wide but atomic64_t
variables are used to represent counter data in the hw_perf_event structure.
The armpmu_event_update function right-shifts a signed 64-bit delta variable
and adds the result to the event count. This can lead to shifting in sign-bits
if the MSB of the 32-bit counter value is set. This results in perf output
such as:
Performance counter stats for 'sleep 20':
18446744073460670464 cycles <-- 0xFFFFFFFFF12A6000
7783773 instructions # 0.000 IPC
465 context-switches
161 page-faults
1172393 branches
20.154242147 seconds time elapsed
This patch ensures that the delta value is treated as unsigned so that the
right shift sets the upper bits to zero.
Acked-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Acked-by: David Daney <ddaney@caviumnetworks.com>
Signed-off-by: Deng-Cheng Zhu <dengcheng.zhu@gmail.com>
To: a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl
To: fweisbec@gmail.com
To: will.deacon@arm.com
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: wuzhangjin@gmail.com
Cc: paulus@samba.org
Cc: mingo@elte.hu
Cc: acme@redhat.com
Cc: matt@console-pimps.org
Cc: sshtylyov@mvista.com
Patchwork: http://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/2015/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>