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>
Thu, 19 Apr 2018 06:56:17 +0000 (08:56 +0200)
commit674e18de7bde49129f7793728169e4ab8d6afcee
tree1836cfcf06e8e33e7fde03e223b4ab0cac7c9a7e
parent4039579fca382fe2d02d2ed78c98f626ed5392f5
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