From: Adrian Hunter adrian.hunter@intel.com

CYC packet timestamp calculation depends upon CBR which was being cleared upon overflow (OVF). That can cause errors due to failing to synchronize with sideband events. Even if a CBR change has been lost, the old CBR is still a better estimate than zero. So remove the clearing of CBR.

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/20190206103947.15750-4-adrian.hunter@intel.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo acme@redhat.com --- tools/perf/util/intel-pt-decoder/intel-pt-decoder.c | 1 - 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/tools/perf/util/intel-pt-decoder/intel-pt-decoder.c b/tools/perf/util/intel-pt-decoder/intel-pt-decoder.c index ecd25cdc1d3e..a54d6c9a4601 100644 --- a/tools/perf/util/intel-pt-decoder/intel-pt-decoder.c +++ b/tools/perf/util/intel-pt-decoder/intel-pt-decoder.c @@ -1395,7 +1395,6 @@ static int intel_pt_overflow(struct intel_pt_decoder *decoder) { intel_pt_log("ERROR: Buffer overflow\n"); intel_pt_clear_tx_flags(decoder); - decoder->cbr = 0; decoder->timestamp_insn_cnt = 0; decoder->pkt_state = INTEL_PT_STATE_ERR_RESYNC; decoder->overflow = true;