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From: Iegorov Oleg <oleg_iegorov@mentor.com>
To: linux-perf-users@vger.kernel.org, mingo@elte.hu,
	a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl, acme@ghostprotocols.net
Subject: perf: prctl(PR_TASK_PERF_EVENTS_DISABLE) has no effect
Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2012 12:54:11 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <501121D3.3060700@mentor.com> (raw)

as there was no proposed solution that helped me in response to the same 
post by Andrew Steets, I would like to know if it is possible to 
disable/enable perf event counters from the source code?

calling prctl(PR_TASK_PERF_EVENTS_DISABLE) has no effect, nor does 
compiling with -fno-omit-frame-pointer option.

It would be extremely useful to disable perf event counters for some 
parts of code and re-enable them for other parts of code, like:

prctl(PR_TASK_PERF_EVENTS_DISABLE);
// not important for performance analysis code
prctl(PR_TASK_PERF_EVENTS_ENABLE);
// code that needs to be analysed

and then, run perf:

$ perf record ./program
$ perf report

Can anyone tell me how can I enable such functionality?
Thank you

--Oleg

             reply	other threads:[~2012-07-26 10:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-07-26 10:54 Iegorov Oleg [this message]
2012-07-27  7:26 ` perf: prctl(PR_TASK_PERF_EVENTS_DISABLE) has no effect 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
2012-07-27 11:56   ` [RFD] perf: events defined contexts (was Re: perf: prctl(PR_TASK_PERF_EVENTS_DISABLE) has no effect) Frederic Weisbecker
2012-07-27 12:45     ` Jiri Olsa
2012-08-06  1:41       ` Namhyung Kim
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
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
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

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