[PATCH v3 3/5] perf: Allow adding fixed random jitter to the alternate sampling period

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Fri, Mar 07, 2025 at 08:22:45PM +0000, mark.barnett at arm.com wrote:
> @@ -9922,7 +9923,10 @@ static int __perf_event_overflow(struct perf_event *event,
>  	if (event->attr.alt_sample_period) {
>  		bool using_alt = hwc->using_alt_sample_period;
>  		u64 sample_period = (using_alt ? event->attr.sample_period
> -					       : event->attr.alt_sample_period);
> +					       : event->attr.alt_sample_period)
> +				  + (event->attr.jitter_alt_period
> +					? get_random_u32_below(2 << event->attr.jitter_alt_period)
> +					: 0);

So, ... this here is NMI context, right? Have you looked at the guts of
get_random_u32_below() ?

I would strongly suggest you go do so.

>  
>  		hwc->sample_period = sample_period;
>  		hwc->using_alt_sample_period = !using_alt;