[Bug 198149] [hwpmc] pmcstat -P -t (top mode, process sampling) stops after a while
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https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=198149
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A commit references this bug:
Author: jhb
Date: Mon Jun 1 18:08:58 UTC 2015
New revision: 283886
URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/283886
Log:
MFC 283123:
Fix two bugs that could result in PMC sampling effectively stopping.
In both cases, the the effect of the bug was that a very small positive
number was written to the counter. This means that a large number of
events needed to occur before the next sampling interrupt would trigger.
Even with very frequently occurring events like clock cycles wrapping all
the way around could take a long time. Both bugs occurred when updating
the saved reload count for an outgoing thread on a context switch.
First, the counter-independent code compares the current reload count
against the count set when the thread switched in and generates a delta
to apply to the saved count. If this delta causes the reload counter
to go negative, it would add a full reload interval to wrap it around to
a positive value. The fix is to add the full reload interval if the
resulting counter is zero.
Second, occasionally the raw counter value read during a context switch
has actually wrapped, but an interrupt has not yet triggered. In this
case the existing logic would return a very large reload count (e.g.
2^48 - 2 if the counter had overflowed by a count of 2). This was seen
both for fixed-function and programmable counters on an E5-2643.
Workaround this case by returning a reload count of zero.
PR: 198149
Sponsored by: Norse Corp, Inc.
Changes:
_U stable/10/
stable/10/sys/dev/hwpmc/hwpmc_core.c
stable/10/sys/dev/hwpmc/hwpmc_mod.c
_U stable/9/sys/
_U stable/9/sys/dev/
stable/9/sys/dev/hwpmc/hwpmc_core.c
stable/9/sys/dev/hwpmc/hwpmc_mod.c
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