From: Adrian Hunter adrian.hunter@intel.com

A TSC packet can slip past MTC packets so that the timestamp appears to go backwards. One estimate is that can be up to about 40 CPU cycles, which is certainly less than 0x1000 TSC ticks, but accept slippage an order of magnitude more to be on the safe side.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter adrian.hunter@intel.com Cc: Jiri Olsa jolsa@redhat.com Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Fixes: 79b58424b821c ("perf tools: Add Intel PT support for decoding MTC packets") Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190325135135.18348-1-adrian.hunter@intel.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo acme@redhat.com --- .../util/intel-pt-decoder/intel-pt-decoder.c | 20 ++++++++----------- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tools/perf/util/intel-pt-decoder/intel-pt-decoder.c b/tools/perf/util/intel-pt-decoder/intel-pt-decoder.c index 6e03db142091..872fab163585 100644 --- a/tools/perf/util/intel-pt-decoder/intel-pt-decoder.c +++ b/tools/perf/util/intel-pt-decoder/intel-pt-decoder.c @@ -251,19 +251,15 @@ struct intel_pt_decoder *intel_pt_decoder_new(struct intel_pt_params *params) if (!(decoder->tsc_ctc_ratio_n % decoder->tsc_ctc_ratio_d)) decoder->tsc_ctc_mult = decoder->tsc_ctc_ratio_n / decoder->tsc_ctc_ratio_d; - - /* - * Allow for timestamps appearing to backwards because a TSC - * packet has slipped past a MTC packet, so allow 2 MTC ticks - * or ... - */ - decoder->tsc_slip = multdiv(2 << decoder->mtc_shift, - decoder->tsc_ctc_ratio_n, - decoder->tsc_ctc_ratio_d); } - /* ... or 0x100 paranoia */ - if (decoder->tsc_slip < 0x100) - decoder->tsc_slip = 0x100; + + /* + * A TSC packet can slip past MTC packets so that the timestamp appears + * to go backwards. One estimate is that can be up to about 40 CPU + * cycles, which is certainly less than 0x1000 TSC ticks, but accept + * slippage an order of magnitude more to be on the safe side. + */ + decoder->tsc_slip = 0x10000;

intel_pt_log("timestamp: mtc_shift %u\n", decoder->mtc_shift); intel_pt_log("timestamp: tsc_ctc_ratio_n %u\n", decoder->tsc_ctc_ratio_n);