[PATCH] perf: Fix 0 count issue of cpu-clock
From: Dapeng Mi
Date: Wed Nov 12 2025 - 03:07:51 EST
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. Besides, or flags with PERF_EF_UPDATE
for task-clock although currently the flags argument would always be 0.
Fixes: bc4394e5e79c ("perf: Fix the throttle error of some clock events")
Signed-off-by: Dapeng Mi <dapeng1.mi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
With this change, both cpu-clock and task-clock can do counting and
samping correctly.
1. perf stat -e cpu-clock,task-clock -- true
Performance counter stats for 'true':
240,636 cpu-clock # 0.358 CPUs utilized
243,319 task-clock # 0.362 CPUs utilized
2. perf record -e cpu-clock -c 10000 -Iax,bx -- sleep 1
[ perf record: Woken up 2 times to write data ]
[ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.028 MB perf.data (36 samples) ]
3. perf record -e task-clock -c 10000 -Iax,bx -- sleep 1
[ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ]
[ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.029 MB perf.data (41 samples) ]
kernel/events/core.c | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/kernel/events/core.c b/kernel/events/core.c
index f6a08c73f783..77d3af5959c1 100644
--- a/kernel/events/core.c
+++ b/kernel/events/core.c
@@ -11964,7 +11964,7 @@ 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, flags | PERF_EF_UPDATE);
}
static void cpu_clock_event_read(struct perf_event *event)
@@ -12043,7 +12043,7 @@ static int task_clock_event_add(struct perf_event *event, int flags)
static void task_clock_event_del(struct perf_event *event, int flags)
{
- task_clock_event_stop(event, PERF_EF_UPDATE);
+ task_clock_event_stop(event, flags | PERF_EF_UPDATE);
}
static void task_clock_event_read(struct perf_event *event)
base-commit: 2093d8cf80fa5552d1025a78a8f3a10bf3b6466e
prerequisite-patch-id: a15bcd62a8dcd219d17489eef88b66ea5488a2a0
prerequisite-patch-id: 2a0eefce67b21d1f30c272fd8115b0dc1aca3897
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2.34.1