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When estimating the IRQ timer delay, we are dealing with two different
clock sources: the external clock source that timerlat uses as a reference
and the clock used by the tracer. There are also two moments: the time
reading the clock and the timer in which the event is placed in the
buffer (the trace event timestamp).
If the processor is slow or there is some hardware noise, the difference
between the timestamp and the external clock, read can be longer than the
IRQ handler delay, resulting in a negative time.
If so, set IRQ to start delay as 0. In the end, it is less near-zero and relevant
then the noise.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/a066fb667c7136d86dcddb3c7ccd72587db3e7c7.1691162043.git.bristot@kernel.org
Fixes: 27e348b221 ("rtla/timerlat: Add auto-analysis core")
Signed-off-by: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira <bristot@kernel.org>
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