Merge tag 'perf-urgent-for-mingo' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/acme/linux into perf/urgent

Pull perf/urgent fix from Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo:

  - Do not stop processing when out of order events are detected, just count them
    and notify the user about it after processing all events. (Jiri Olsa)

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

2 files changed, 6 insertions, 6 deletions

diff --git a/tools/perf/util/event.h b/tools/perf/util/event.h
index 5699e7e2a790..50a7b115698c 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/event.h
+++ b/tools/perf/util/event.h
@@ -214,6 +214,7 @@ struct events_stats {
 	u32 nr_invalid_chains;
 	u32 nr_unknown_id;
 	u32 nr_unprocessable_samples;
+	u32 nr_unordered_events;
 };
 
 struct attr_event {
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/session.c b/tools/perf/util/session.c
index 6702ac28754b..80dbba095f30 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/session.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/session.c
@@ -521,15 +521,11 @@ int perf_session_queue_event(struct perf_session *s, union perf_event *event,
 		return -ETIME;
 
 	if (timestamp < oe->last_flush) {
-		WARN_ONCE(1, "Timestamp below last timeslice flush\n");
-
-		pr_oe_time(timestamp,      "out of order event");
+		pr_oe_time(timestamp,      "out of order event\n");
 		pr_oe_time(oe->last_flush, "last flush, last_flush_type %d\n",
 			   oe->last_flush_type);
 
-		/* We could get out of order messages after forced flush. */
-		if (oe->last_flush_type != OE_FLUSH__HALF)
-			return -EINVAL;
+		s->stats.nr_unordered_events++;
 	}
 
 	new = ordered_events__new(oe, timestamp, event);
@@ -1057,6 +1053,9 @@ static void perf_session__warn_about_errors(const struct perf_session *session,
 			    "Do you have a KVM guest running and not using 'perf kvm'?\n",
 			    session->stats.nr_unprocessable_samples);
 	}
+
+	if (session->stats.nr_unordered_events != 0)
+		ui__warning("%u out of order events recorded.\n", session->stats.nr_unordered_events);
 }
 
 volatile int session_done;