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From: Andrew Steets <asteets@rgmadvisors.com>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: linux-perf-users@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>,
	Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>,
	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@ghostprotocols.net>
Subject: Re: perf: prctl(PR_TASK_PERF_EVENTS_DISABLE) has no effect
Date: Sat, 28 Jan 2012 17:48:08 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F248938.5030507@rgmadvisors.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120128120151.GA10390@elte.hu>

On 1/28/12 6:01 AM, Ingo Molnar wrote:

>> prctl(PR_TASK_PERF_EVENTS_DISABLE) doesn't appear to disable
>> perf event counters.  Here is a demonstration program:
>
> btw., what's your usecase?
>

I'm trying to profile a small section of a long-running program.  I ran
into trouble using call-graph recording and I thought this might be an
alternative way of getting what I was after.

-Andrew

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  reply	other threads:[~2012-01-28 23:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-01-27 17:03 perf: prctl(PR_TASK_PERF_EVENTS_DISABLE) has no effect Andrew Steets
2012-01-27 17:12 ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-01-27 20:06   ` Andrew Steets
2012-01-27 21:34     ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-01-28 12:01 ` Ingo Molnar
2012-01-28 23:48   ` Andrew Steets [this message]
2012-01-29 16:32     ` Ingo Molnar
2012-01-29 16:32       ` Ingo Molnar
2012-01-29 17:50       ` Gleb Natapov
2012-01-30  9:52       ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-01-30 10:11         ` Ingo Molnar
2012-01-30 11:01           ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-01-30 11:31             ` Ingo Molnar
2012-01-30 13:45               ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-01-30 13:58                 ` Ingo Molnar
2012-01-30 15:30                 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2012-01-30 15:29             ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2012-02-01 19:03           ` Frederic Weisbecker
2013-05-30 23:45 ` Using perf and cgroups to profile part of a long-running program Riku Saikkonen
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2012-07-26 10:54 perf: prctl(PR_TASK_PERF_EVENTS_DISABLE) has no effect Iegorov Oleg
2012-07-27  7:26 ` Ingo Molnar
2012-07-27  8:00   ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-07-27  8:18     ` Ingo Molnar
2012-07-27  8:29       ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-07-27 11:40         ` Iegorov Oleg
2012-07-27 11:53         ` Ingo Molnar
2012-07-30 20:04           ` Andi Kleen
2012-07-31  5:47           ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-07-31  7:16             ` Ingo Molnar
2012-07-31 19:48               ` Peter Zijlstra

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