perf: Reimplement frequency driven sampling

There was a bug in the old period code that caused intel_pmu_enable_all()
or native_write_msr_safe() to show up quite high in the profiles.

In staring at that code it made my head hurt, so I rewrote it in a
hopefully simpler fashion. Its now fully symetric between tick and
overflow driven adjustments and uses less data to boot.

The only complication is that it basically wants to do a u128 division.
The code approximates that in a rather simple truncate until it fits
fashion, taking care to balance the terms while truncating.

This version does not generate that sampling artefact.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/perf_event.h b/include/linux/perf_event.h
index c6f812e4d05..72b2615600d 100644
--- a/include/linux/perf_event.h
+++ b/include/linux/perf_event.h
@@ -498,9 +498,8 @@ struct hw_perf_event {
 	atomic64_t			period_left;
 	u64				interrupts;
 
-	u64				freq_count;
-	u64				freq_interrupts;
-	u64				freq_stamp;
+	u64				freq_time_stamp;
+	u64				freq_count_stamp;
 #endif
 };