Merge branch 'perf/urgent' into perf/core

Merge reason: we need to queue up dependent patch

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

1 files changed, 15 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/perf_event.c b/kernel/perf_event.c
index a353a4d6d00d..3d3f282fa50e 100644
--- a/kernel/perf_event.c
+++ b/kernel/perf_event.c
@@ -851,6 +851,10 @@ retry:
         raw_spin_unlock_irq(&ctx->lock);
 }
 
+#define MAX_INTERRUPTS (~0ULL)
+
+static void perf_log_throttle(struct perf_event *event, int enable);
+
 static int
 event_sched_in(struct perf_event *event,
                  struct perf_cpu_context *cpuctx,
@@ -863,6 +867,17 @@ event_sched_in(struct perf_event *event,
 
         event->state = PERF_EVENT_STATE_ACTIVE;
         event->oncpu = smp_processor_id();
+
+        /*
+         * Unthrottle events, since we scheduled we might have missed several
+         * ticks already, also for a heavily scheduling task there is little
+         * guarantee it'll get a tick in a timely manner.
+         */
+        if (unlikely(event->hw.interrupts == MAX_INTERRUPTS)) {
+                perf_log_throttle(event, 1);
+                event->hw.interrupts = 0;
+        }
+
         /*
          * The new state must be visible before we turn it on in the hardware:
          */
@@ -1661,10 +1676,6 @@ void __perf_event_task_sched_in(struct task_struct *task)
         }
 }
 
-#define MAX_INTERRUPTS (~0ULL)
-
-static void perf_log_throttle(struct perf_event *event, int enable);
-
 static u64 perf_calculate_period(struct perf_event *event, u64 nsec, u64 count)
 {
         u64 frequency = event->attr.sample_freq;