From bad7192b842c83e580747ca57104dd51fe08c223 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Peter Zijlstra Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2013 13:54:38 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] perf: Fix PERF_EVENT_IOC_PERIOD to force-reset the period Vince Weaver reports that, on all architectures apart from ARM, PERF_EVENT_IOC_PERIOD doesn't actually update the period until the next event fires. This is counter-intuitive behaviour and is better dealt with in the core code. This patch ensures that the period is forcefully reset when dealing with such a request in the core code. A subsequent patch removes the equivalent hack from the ARM back-end. Reported-by: Vince Weaver Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra Signed-off-by: Will Deacon Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1385560479-11014-1-git-send-email-will.deacon@arm.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- kernel/events/core.c | 16 +++++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/kernel/events/core.c b/kernel/events/core.c index 403b781daafb..89d34f9bb8cb 100644 --- a/kernel/events/core.c +++ b/kernel/events/core.c @@ -3527,7 +3527,7 @@ static void perf_event_for_each(struct perf_event *event, static int perf_event_period(struct perf_event *event, u64 __user *arg) { struct perf_event_context *ctx = event->ctx; - int ret = 0; + int ret = 0, active; u64 value; if (!is_sampling_event(event)) @@ -3551,6 +3551,20 @@ static int perf_event_period(struct perf_event *event, u64 __user *arg) event->attr.sample_period = value; event->hw.sample_period = value; } + + active = (event->state == PERF_EVENT_STATE_ACTIVE); + if (active) { + perf_pmu_disable(ctx->pmu); + event->pmu->stop(event, PERF_EF_UPDATE); + } + + local64_set(&event->hw.period_left, 0); + + if (active) { + event->pmu->start(event, PERF_EF_RELOAD); + perf_pmu_enable(ctx->pmu); + } + unlock: raw_spin_unlock_irq(&ctx->lock); -- 2.30.2