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

[Namhyung Kim <namhyung.kim@lge.com>]

Hi,

On Wed, 16 May 2012 14:57:49 +0900, Namhyung Kim wrote:
> Hmm.. but it seems this breaks my 'perf stat -g' - it doesn't
> respond any more (even for ^C):
>

I've found that it's a problem of whole perf stat, not only for -g
option. It's because the perf stat should use per-task events for some
reason as it's not use mmap on the events.

The commit 77a6f014e9ae ("perf stat: Use perf_evlist__create_maps")
introduced the issue and it seems following patch works well for me:

---[ cut here ]---

diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-record.c b/tools/perf/builtin-record.c
index d19058a7b84c..185e59a4715d 100644
--- a/tools/perf/builtin-record.c
+++ b/tools/perf/builtin-record.c
@@ -754,6 +754,9 @@ static struct perf_record record = {
 		.user_freq	     = UINT_MAX,
 		.user_interval	     = ULLONG_MAX,
 		.freq		     = 1000,
+		.target		     = {
+			.need_mmap   = true,
+		},
 	},
 	.write_mode = WRITE_FORCE,
 	.file_new   = true,
diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-top.c b/tools/perf/builtin-top.c
index 553560a8b1be..ebcd15883ab8 100644
--- a/tools/perf/builtin-top.c
+++ b/tools/perf/builtin-top.c
@@ -1162,6 +1162,9 @@ int cmd_top(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix __used)
 		.freq		     = 1000, /* 1 KHz */
 		.mmap_pages	     = 128,
 		.sym_pcnt_filter     = 5,
+		.target		     = {
+			.need_mmap   = true,
+		},
 	};
 	char callchain_default_opt[] = "fractal,0.5,callee";
 	const struct option options[] = {
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/evlist.c b/tools/perf/util/evlist.c
index 87889f325678..ba43c3a4046c 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/evlist.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/evlist.c
@@ -611,6 +611,8 @@ int perf_evlist__create_maps(struct perf_evlist *evlist,
 
 	if (perf_target__has_task(target))
 		evlist->cpus = cpu_map__dummy_new();
+	else if (!perf_target__has_cpu(target) && !target->need_mmap)
+		evlist->cpus = cpu_map__dummy_new();
 	else
 		evlist->cpus = cpu_map__new(target->cpu_list);
 
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/target.h b/tools/perf/util/target.h
index c43f632955fa..ffa247d3ede3 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/target.h
+++ b/tools/perf/util/target.h
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ struct perf_target {
 	const char   *uid_str;
 	uid_t	     uid;
 	bool	     system_wide;
+	bool	     need_mmap;
 };
 
 enum perf_target_errno {


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Thanks,
Namhyung