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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>
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Will Deacon 2010-07-02 16:41:52 +01:00 committed by Russell King
parent 42c4dafe80
commit 446a5a8b1e
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@ -201,7 +201,7 @@ armpmu_event_update(struct perf_event *event,
{
int shift = 64 - 32;
s64 prev_raw_count, new_raw_count;
s64 delta;
u64 delta;
again:
prev_raw_count = atomic64_read(&hwc->prev_count);