Re: [GIT PULL 0/8] Annotation weekly ponies delivery

[Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>]

2012-05-15 (화), 12:32 +0200, Peter Zijlstra:
> On Tue, 2012-05-15 at 00:06 +0900, Namhyung Kim wrote:
> 
> > perf_evlist__config_attrs() has this:
> > 
> > 	if (evlist->cpus->map[0] < 0)
> > 		opts->no_inherit = true;
> > 
> > meaning that per task profiling won't enable event inheritance. I don't
> > know why it's needed though.
> 
> Because you cannot have inherited per-task counters. It only works for
> per-task-per-cpu counters. Otherwise you'll have a scalability
> nightmare.
> 

Got it. So it means that we do need to create an event for each cpu
in order to profile a task (and its children), right? (Originally, I
thought it's a bug :-p)

If so, yes, the commit 55261f46702c ("perf evlist: Fix creation of
cpu map") should be reverted like below (note that target->cpu_list
check no longer needed since perf_target__validate() will handle
those cases). If it looks ok to you guys, I'll send a formal patch
with name changes (to avoid the double negation suggested by Ingo):


diff --git a/tools/perf/util/evlist.c b/tools/perf/util/evlist.c
index 1201daf71719..f6979ba391d1 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/evlist.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/evlist.c
@@ -609,10 +609,10 @@ int perf_evlist__create_maps(struct perf_evlist 
 	if (evlist->threads == NULL)
 		return -1;
 
-	if (!perf_target__no_cpu(target))
-		evlist->cpus = cpu_map__new(target->cpu_list);
-	else
+	if (!perf_target__no_task(target))
 		evlist->cpus = cpu_map__dummy_new();
+	else
+		evlist->cpus = cpu_map__new(target->cpu_list);
 
 	if (evlist->cpus == NULL)
 		goto out_delete_threads;



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Regards,
Namhyung Kim