ARM: perf: hook up perf_sample_event_took around pmu irq handling
authorWill Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Tue, 11 Feb 2014 18:08:41 +0000 (18:08 +0000)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Wed, 11 Jun 2014 19:03:27 +0000 (12:03 -0700)
commit 5f5092e72cc25a6a5785308270e0085b2b2772cc upstream.

Since we indirect all of our PMU IRQ handling through a dispatcher, it's
trivial to hook up perf_sample_event_took to prevent applications such
as oprofile from generating interrupt storms due to an unrealisticly
low sample period.

Reported-by: Robert Richter <rric@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Cc: Weng Meiling <wengmeiling.weng@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
arch/arm/kernel/perf_event.c

index e19edc6f2d15a3e893a40dac8531baeabb7aad9b..ace0ce8f664114deaac968ca0de3df2560919dbb 100644 (file)
@@ -303,11 +303,18 @@ static irqreturn_t armpmu_dispatch_irq(int irq, void *dev)
        struct arm_pmu *armpmu = (struct arm_pmu *) dev;
        struct platform_device *plat_device = armpmu->plat_device;
        struct arm_pmu_platdata *plat = dev_get_platdata(&plat_device->dev);
+       int ret;
+       u64 start_clock, finish_clock;
 
+       start_clock = sched_clock();
        if (plat && plat->handle_irq)
-               return plat->handle_irq(irq, dev, armpmu->handle_irq);
+               ret = plat->handle_irq(irq, dev, armpmu->handle_irq);
        else
-               return armpmu->handle_irq(irq, dev);
+               ret = armpmu->handle_irq(irq, dev);
+       finish_clock = sched_clock();
+
+       perf_sample_event_took(finish_clock - start_clock);
+       return ret;
 }
 
 static void