perf record: Do not ask for precise_ip with --no-samples
authorArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
Mon, 3 Jul 2017 16:26:32 +0000 (13:26 -0300)
committerArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
Wed, 19 Jul 2017 02:14:13 +0000 (23:14 -0300)
commit4b4cd50319127b3b606b8aaf3426d8972df1666a
treecaee0ec547de3233ce3fa4a8158746e4f79e5641
parentdb918acb356b8770a0fafbe96743031a56b91af6
perf record: Do not ask for precise_ip with --no-samples

When the user doesn't specify an event with -e/--event, 'perf record'
will use as a default the "cycles" event with the highest level of
precision in perf_event_attr.precise_ip, but --no-samples, if present,
is incompatible with precise_ip != 0, so use the newly introduced
__perf_event__add_default(precise = false) to fix that:

Before:

  # perf record -n usleep 1
  Please consider tweaking /proc/sys/kernel/perf_event_max_sample_rate.
  Error:
  The sys_perf_event_open() syscall returned with 22 (Invalid argument) for event (cycles:ppp).
  /bin/dmesg may provide additional information.
  No CONFIG_PERF_EVENTS=y kernel support configured?
  #

After:

  # perf record -n usleep 1
  Please consider tweaking /proc/sys/kernel/perf_event_max_sample_rate.
  [ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ]
  [ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.018 MB perf.data ]
  [root@jouet /]# perf evlist -v
  cycles: size: 112, sample_type: IP|TID|TIME|PERIOD, disabled: 1, inherit: 1, mmap: 1, comm: 1, freq: 1, enable_on_exec: 1, task: 1, sample_id_all: 1, exclude_guest: 1, mmap2: 1, comm_exec: 1
  [root@jouet /]#

Reported-by: Jiri Olsa <[email protected]>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <[email protected]>
Cc: David Ahern <[email protected]>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <[email protected]>
Cc: Wang Nan <[email protected]>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
tools/perf/builtin-record.c