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Dave Hansen 14c63f17b1 perf: Drop sample rate when sampling is too slow
This patch keeps track of how long perf's NMI handler is taking,
and also calculates how many samples perf can take a second.  If
the sample length times the expected max number of samples
exceeds a configurable threshold, it drops the sample rate.

This way, we don't have a runaway sampling process eating up the
CPU.

This patch can tend to drop the sample rate down to level where
perf doesn't work very well.  *BUT* the alternative is that my
system hangs because it spends all of its time handling NMIs.

I'll take a busted performance tool over an entire system that's
busted and undebuggable any day.

BTW, my suspicion is that there's still an underlying bug here.
Using the HPET instead of the TSC is definitely a contributing
factor, but I suspect there are some other things going on.
But, I can't go dig down on a bug like that with my machine
hanging all the time.

Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: paulus@samba.org
Cc: acme@ghostprotocols.net
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave@sr71.net>
[ Prettified it a bit. ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-06-23 11:52:57 +02:00
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alpha Removal of GENERIC_GPIO for v3.10 2013-05-09 09:59:16 -07:00
arc ARC: lazy dcache flush broke gdb in non-aliasing configs 2013-05-25 14:15:55 +05:30
arm Merge branch 'fixes' of git://git.linaro.org/people/rmk/linux-arm 2013-05-25 10:05:24 -07:00
arm64 arm64: debug: fix mdscr.ss check when enabling debug exceptions 2013-05-17 18:24:19 +01:00
avr32 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/egtvedt/linux-avr32 2013-05-22 18:06:57 -07:00
blackfin blackfin updates for Linux 3.10 2013-05-10 07:21:16 -07:00
c6x dump_stack: unify debug information printed by show_regs() 2013-04-30 17:04:02 -07:00
cris - Lots of cleanups from Artem, including deletion of some obsolete drivers 2013-05-09 10:15:46 -07:00
frv Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next 2013-05-01 14:08:52 -07:00
h8300 We get rid of the general module prefix confusion with a binary config option, 2013-05-05 10:58:06 -07:00
hexagon Removal of GENERIC_GPIO for v3.10 2013-05-09 09:59:16 -07:00
ia64 Removal of GENERIC_GPIO for v3.10 2013-05-09 09:59:16 -07:00
m32r Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next 2013-05-01 14:08:52 -07:00
m68k - Artem's removal of dead code continues (RPX, MBX860) 2013-05-10 09:09:47 -07:00
metag perf: Add const qualifier to perf_pmu_register's 'name' arg 2013-06-19 12:50:23 +02:00
microblaze Merge branch 'next' of git://git.monstr.eu/linux-2.6-microblaze 2013-05-10 07:19:52 -07:00
mips USB fixes for 3.10-rc2 2013-05-23 09:23:32 -07:00
mn10300 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next 2013-05-01 14:08:52 -07:00
openrisc Removal of GENERIC_GPIO for v3.10 2013-05-09 09:59:16 -07:00
parisc parisc: fix irq stack on UP and SMP 2013-05-24 23:29:01 +02:00
powerpc perf: Power7: Make CPI stack events available in sysfs 2013-05-29 16:04:18 +03:00
s390 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/s390/linux 2013-05-21 09:36:46 -07:00
score score: remove redundant kcore_list entries 2013-05-25 10:27:27 -07:00
sh Removal of GENERIC_GPIO for v3.10 2013-05-09 09:59:16 -07:00
sparc Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/signal 2013-05-10 09:21:05 -07:00
tile Merge branch 'stable' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/cmetcalf/linux-tile 2013-05-09 14:34:58 -07:00
um Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2013-05-07 15:14:53 -07:00
unicore32 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/signal 2013-05-10 09:21:05 -07:00
x86 perf: Drop sample rate when sampling is too slow 2013-06-23 11:52:57 +02:00
xtensa Xtensa patchset for v3.10-rc1 2013-05-09 14:38:16 -07:00
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Kconfig Merge branch 'core-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2013-05-15 14:04:00 -07:00