From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753171AbbDBW3l (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Apr 2015 18:29:41 -0400 Received: from mail.kernel.org ([198.145.29.136]:33563 "EHLO mail.kernel.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753071AbbDBW3g (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Apr 2015 18:29:36 -0400 From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo To: Ingo Molnar Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Yunlong Song , Paul Mackerras , Peter Zijlstra , Wang Nan , Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Subject: [PATCH 06/15] perf evlist: Support using -f to override perf.data file ownership Date: Thu, 2 Apr 2015 19:28:57 -0300 Message-Id: <1428013746-2037-7-git-send-email-acme@kernel.org> X-Mailer: git-send-email 1.9.3 In-Reply-To: <1428013746-2037-1-git-send-email-acme@kernel.org> References: <1428013746-2037-1-git-send-email-acme@kernel.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Yunlong Song Enable perf evlist to use perf.data when it is not owned by current user or root. Example: # perf record ls # chown Yunlong.Song:Yunlong.Song perf.data # ls -al perf.data -rw------- 1 Yunlong.Song Yunlong.Song 28260 Apr 2 10:18 perf.data # id uid=0(root) gid=0(root) groups=0(root),64(pkcs11) Before this patch: # perf evlist File perf.data not owned by current user or root (use -f to override) # perf evlist -f Error: unknown switch `f' usage: perf evlist [] -i, --input Input file name -F, --freq Show the sample frequency -v, --verbose Show all event attr details -g, --group Show event group information As shown above, the -f option does not work at all. After this patch: # perf evlist File perf.data not owned by current user or root (use -f to override) # perf evlist -f cycles As shown above, the -f option really works now. Signed-off-by: Yunlong Song Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Wang Nan Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1427982439-27388-2-git-send-email-yunlong.song@huawei.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo --- tools/perf/builtin-evlist.c | 2 ++ tools/perf/util/evsel.h | 1 + 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+) diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-evlist.c b/tools/perf/builtin-evlist.c index 0f93f859b782..695ec5a50cf2 100644 --- a/tools/perf/builtin-evlist.c +++ b/tools/perf/builtin-evlist.c @@ -24,6 +24,7 @@ static int __cmd_evlist(const char *file_name, struct perf_attr_details *details struct perf_data_file file = { .path = file_name, .mode = PERF_DATA_MODE_READ, + .force = details->force, }; session = perf_session__new(&file, 0, NULL); @@ -47,6 +48,7 @@ int cmd_evlist(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix __maybe_unused) "Show all event attr details"), OPT_BOOLEAN('g', "group", &details.event_group, "Show event group information"), + OPT_BOOLEAN('f', "force", &details.force, "don't complain, do it"), OPT_END() }; const char * const evlist_usage[] = { diff --git a/tools/perf/util/evsel.h b/tools/perf/util/evsel.h index dcf202aebe9f..c5a43d6b13dc 100644 --- a/tools/perf/util/evsel.h +++ b/tools/perf/util/evsel.h @@ -335,6 +335,7 @@ struct perf_attr_details { bool freq; bool verbose; bool event_group; + bool force; }; int perf_evsel__fprintf(struct perf_evsel *evsel, -- 1.9.3