/*
* timestamp shadows the actual context timing but it can
* be safely used in NMI interrupt context. It reflects the
- * context time as it was when the event was last scheduled in.
+ * context time as it was when the event was last scheduled in,
+ * or when ctx_sched_in failed to schedule the event because we
+ * run out of PMC.
*
* ctx_time already accounts for ctx->timestamp. Therefore to
* compute ctx_time for a sample, simply add perf_clock().