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perf: Fix 0 count issue of cpu-clock
authorDapeng Mi <dapeng1.mi@linux.intel.com>
Wed, 12 Nov 2025 08:05:26 +0000 (16:05 +0800)
committerPeter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Thu, 20 Nov 2025 09:42:12 +0000 (10:42 +0100)
Currently cpu-clock event always returns 0 count, e.g.,

perf stat -e cpu-clock -- sleep 1

 Performance counter stats for 'sleep 1':
                 0      cpu-clock                        #    0.000 CPUs utilized
       1.002308394 seconds time elapsed

The root cause is the commit 'bc4394e5e79c ("perf: Fix the throttle
 error of some clock events")' adds PERF_EF_UPDATE flag check before
calling cpu_clock_event_update() to update the count, however the
PERF_EF_UPDATE flag is never set when the cpu-clock event is stopped in
counting mode (pmu->dev() -> cpu_clock_event_del() ->
cpu_clock_event_stop()). This leads to the cpu-clock event count is
never updated.

To fix this issue, force to set PERF_EF_UPDATE flag for cpu-clock event
just like what task-clock does.

Fixes: bc4394e5e79c ("perf: Fix the throttle error of some clock events")
Signed-off-by: Dapeng Mi <dapeng1.mi@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Acked-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251112080526.3971392-1-dapeng1.mi@linux.intel.com
kernel/events/core.c

index 1fd347da902654481a224007145307c5577d1fee..2c35acc2722b0f37515719369f89fbcd0b067184 100644 (file)
@@ -11901,7 +11901,7 @@ static int cpu_clock_event_add(struct perf_event *event, int flags)
 
 static void cpu_clock_event_del(struct perf_event *event, int flags)
 {
-       cpu_clock_event_stop(event, flags);
+       cpu_clock_event_stop(event, PERF_EF_UPDATE);
 }
 
 static void cpu_clock_event_read(struct perf_event *event)