Re: [PATCH 1/2] perf: riscv: preliminary RISC-V support

[Alan Kao]

Hi Alex,
 
On Mon, Apr 02, 2018 at 03:36:12PM +0800, Alan Kao wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 31, 2018 at 03:47:10PM -0700, Alex Solomatnikov wrote:
> 
> The original guess was that maybe, an counter value on a hart is picked
> as the minusend, and an old counter value on another hart was recorded
> as the subtrahend but numerically larger.  Then, the overflow causes 
> by that subtraction.  Please let me name this guess as 
> "cross-hart subtraction."
>
> > You can add a skew between cores in qemu, something like this:
> > 
> > case CSR_INSTRET:
> >         core_id()*return cpu_get_host_ticks()/10;
> >     break;
> > case CSR_CYCLE:
> >         return cpu_get_host_ticks();
> >     break;
> > 
> 
> However, I tried similar stuff to reproduce the phenomenon but in vain.
> It seems that the 
>
>               ***cross-hart subtration doesn't even happen, because generic
> code handles them.  ...

I am sorry that this observation is wrong.  With appropriate tweak, we
successfully reproduce the behavior and locate the the bug.

This will be fix in v2.


Thanks for the helps.
Alan