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Time readers that cannot take locks (due to NMI etc..) currently make
use of perf_event::shadow_ctx_time, which, for that event gives:
time' = now + (time - timestamp)
or, alternatively arranged:
time' = time + (now - timestamp)
IOW, the progression of time since the last time the shadow_ctx_time
was updated.
There's problems with this:
A) the shadow_ctx_time is per-event, even though the ctx_time it
reflects is obviously per context. The direct concequence of this
is that the context needs to iterate all events all the time to
keep the shadow_ctx_time in sync.
B) even with the prior point, the context itself might not be active
meaning its time should not advance to begin with.
C) shadow_ctx_time isn't consistently updated when ctx_time is
There are 3 users of this stuff, that suffer differently from this:
- calc_timer_values()
- perf_output_read()
- perf_event_update_userpage() /* A */
- perf_event_read_local() /* A,B */
In particular, perf_output_read() doesn't suffer at all, because it's
sample driven and hence only relevant when the event is actually
running.
This same was supposed to be true for perf_event_update_userpage(),
after all self-monitoring implies the context is active *HOWEVER*, as
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