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Re: 'perf test tsc' failing, bisected to "sched/clock: Provide better clock continuity"

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On Thu, Mar 16, 2017 at 11:01:03AM -0300, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote:
> Hi, this entry is failing for a while:
> 
> [root@jouet ~]# perf test -v tsc
> 55: Convert perf time to TSC                   :
> --- start ---
> test child forked, pid 3008
> mmap size 528384B
> 1st event perf time 93133455486631 tsc 15369449468752
> rdtsc          time 93133464598760 tsc 15369473104358
> 2nd event perf time 93133455506961 tsc 15369449521485
> test child finished with -1
> ---- end ----
> Convert perf time to TSC: FAILED!
> [root@jouet ~]#
> 
> I bisected it to the following kernel change, ideas?
> 
> [acme@felicio linux]$ git bisect good
> 5680d8094ffa9e5cfc81afdd865027ee6417c263 is the first bad commit
> commit 5680d8094ffa9e5cfc81afdd865027ee6417c263
> Author: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
> Date:   Thu Dec 15 13:36:17 2016 +0100
> 
>     sched/clock: Provide better clock continuity

Right, ahunter also complained about this. I had a half arsed fugly
patch in the works. Let me see if I can improve and finish.

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'perf test tsc' failing, bisected to "sched/clock: Provide better  clock continuity" Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org> - 2017-03-16 15:10 +0100
  Re: 'perf test tsc' failing, bisected to "sched/clock: Provide  better clock continuity" Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2017-03-16 16:00 +0100
    Re: 'perf test tsc' failing, bisected to "sched/clock: Provide  better clock continuity" Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2017-03-16 19:20 +0100
      Re: 'perf test tsc' failing, bisected to "sched/clock: Provide  better clock continuity" Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org> - 2017-03-16 19:40 +0100
        Re: 'perf test tsc' failing, bisected to "sched/clock: Provide  better clock continuity" Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org> - 2017-03-16 20:30 +0100
          Re: 'perf test tsc' failing, bisected to "sched/clock: Provide  better clock continuity" Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org> - 2017-03-20 14:30 +0100
        Re: 'perf test tsc' failing, bisected to "sched/clock: Provide  better clock continuity" Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org> - 2017-03-16 20:40 +0100

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