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Revision ba9786f32473410bbec256db9745a7fbcaace69f authored by Deng-Cheng Zhu on 21 January 2011, 08:19:21 UTC, committed by Ralf Baechle on 14 March 2011, 20:07:27 UTC
Leverage the commit for ARM by Will Deacon:

- 446a5a8b1eb91a6990e5c8fe29f14e7a95b69132
    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.

Acked-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Acked-by: David Daney <ddaney@caviumnetworks.com>
Signed-off-by: Deng-Cheng Zhu <dengcheng.zhu@gmail.com>
To: a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl
To: fweisbec@gmail.com
To: will.deacon@arm.com
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: wuzhangjin@gmail.com
Cc: paulus@samba.org
Cc: mingo@elte.hu
Cc: acme@redhat.com
Cc: matt@console-pimps.org
Cc: sshtylyov@mvista.com
Patchwork: http://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/2015/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
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Tip revision: ba9786f32473410bbec256db9745a7fbcaace69f authored by Deng-Cheng Zhu on 21 January 2011, 08:19:21 UTC
MIPS, Perf-events: Use unsigned delta for right shift in event update
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