perf intel-pt: Fix timestamp following overflow
authorAdrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Wed, 7 Mar 2018 14:02:24 +0000 (16:02 +0200)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Fri, 20 Apr 2018 06:20:41 +0000 (08:20 +0200)
commit57ce7d4b43db2ec16807a50a12b4724f60c6a641
treeb96ba2ec82f25018d0905eb4782aa8ea41e23e21
parent2c1f44bdf8e088c693189edf4233ad8eb09faa65
perf intel-pt: Fix timestamp following overflow

commit 91d29b288aed3406caf7c454bf2b898c96cfd177 upstream.

timestamp_insn_cnt is used to estimate the timestamp based on the number of
instructions since the last known timestamp.

If the estimate is not accurate enough decoding might not be correctly
synchronized with side-band events causing more trace errors.

However there are always timestamps following an overflow, so the
estimate is not needed and can indeed result in more errors.

Suppress the estimate by setting timestamp_insn_cnt to zero.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1520431349-30689-5-git-send-email-adrian.hunter@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
tools/perf/util/intel-pt-decoder/intel-pt-decoder.c