linux/arch
Will Deacon 446a5a8b1e 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.

Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Jamie Iles <jamie.iles@picochip.com>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2010-07-04 23:11:37 +01:00
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alpha alpha: Detect Super IO chip, no IDE on Avanti, enable EPP19 2010-06-15 14:19:08 -04:00
arm ARM: 6205/1: perf: ensure counter delta is treated as unsigned 2010-07-04 23:11:37 +01:00
avr32 avr32: use asm-generic/scatterlist.h 2010-05-27 09:12:54 -07:00
blackfin blackfin: use use asm-generic/scatterlist.h 2010-05-27 09:12:55 -07:00
cris Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://www.jni.nu/cris 2010-06-01 08:51:25 -07:00
frv FRV: Reinstate null behaviour for the GDB remote protocol 'p' command 2010-06-09 12:42:44 -07:00
h8300 Merge branch 'for-35' of git://repo.or.cz/linux-kbuild 2010-06-01 08:55:52 -07:00
ia64 KVM: ia64: Add missing spin_unlock in kvm_arch_hardware_enable() 2010-06-09 18:48:40 +03:00
m32r m32r: invoke oom-killer from page fault 2010-06-04 15:21:44 -07:00
m68k Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/geert/linux-m68k 2010-05-27 10:19:19 -07:00
m68knommu Merge branch 'for-35' of git://repo.or.cz/linux-kbuild 2010-06-01 08:55:52 -07:00
microblaze Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jbarnes/pci-2.6 2010-06-11 14:15:44 -07:00
mips Merge branch 'for-35' of git://repo.or.cz/linux-kbuild 2010-06-01 08:55:52 -07:00
mn10300 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jbarnes/pci-2.6 2010-06-11 14:15:44 -07:00
parisc Merge branch 'for-35' of git://repo.or.cz/linux-kbuild 2010-06-01 08:55:52 -07:00
powerpc Merge branch 'merge' of git://git.secretlab.ca/git/linux-2.6 2010-06-27 07:30:25 -07:00
s390 [S390] Update default configuration. 2010-06-08 18:58:23 +02:00
score asm-generic: remove ISA_DMA_THRESHOLD in scatterlist.h 2010-05-27 09:12:54 -07:00
sh arch/sh/mm: Eliminate a double lock 2010-06-21 13:46:53 +09:00
sparc Merge branch 'for-35' of git://repo.or.cz/linux-kbuild 2010-06-01 08:55:52 -07:00
um um: os-linux/mem.c needs sys/stat.h 2010-06-29 15:29:32 -07:00
x86 Merge branch 'perf-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip 2010-06-28 12:24:43 -07:00
xtensa xtensa: invoke oom-killer from page fault 2010-06-04 15:21:44 -07:00
.gitignore
Kconfig hw-breakpoints: Separate constraint space for data and instruction breakpoints 2010-05-01 04:32:11 +02:00