[tip:perf/core] perf inject: Support using -f to override perf.data file ownership

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Commit-ID:  ccaa474c8a0983d26ecb3eac755672b546b997c3
Gitweb:     http://git.kernel.org/tip/ccaa474c8a0983d26ecb3eac755672b546b997c3
Author:     Yunlong Song <yunlong.song@huawei.com>
AuthorDate: Thu, 2 Apr 2015 21:47:11 +0800
Committer:  Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
CommitDate: Thu, 2 Apr 2015 13:18:45 -0300

perf inject: Support using -f to override perf.data file ownership

Enable perf inject 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 10:37 perf.data
 # id
 uid=0(root) gid=0(root) groups=0(root),64(pkcs11)

Before this patch:

 # perf inject -v -b -i perf.data -o perf.data.new
 File perf.data not owned by current user or root (use -f to override)
 # perf inject -v -b -i perf.data -o perf.data.new -f
   Error: unknown switch `f'

  usage: perf inject [<options>]

     -b, --build-ids       Inject build-ids into the output stream
     -i, --input <file>    input file name
     -o, --output <file>   output file name
     -s, --sched-stat      Merge sched-stat and sched-switch for getting
     events where and how long tasks slept
     -v, --verbose         be more verbose (show build ids, etc)
         --kallsyms <file>
                           kallsyms pathname

As shown above, the -f option does not work at all.

After this patch:

 # perf inject -v -b -i perf.data -o perf.data.new
 File perf.data not owned by current user or root (use -f to override)
 # perf inject -v -b -i perf.data -o perf.data.new -f
 build id event received for [kernel.kallsyms]:
 f6dcb66d8b98f1c0d9eb87bf043444b69f91d30c
 symsrc__init: cannot get elf header.
 Looking at the vmlinux_path (7 entries long)
 Using /proc/kcore for kernel object code
 Using /proc/kallsyms for symbols

As shown above, the -f option really works now.

Signed-off-by: Yunlong Song <yunlong.song@huawei.com>
Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1427982439-27388-3-git-send-email-yunlong.song@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
---
 tools/perf/builtin-inject.c | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-inject.c b/tools/perf/builtin-inject.c
index ea46df25..40a33d7 100644
--- a/tools/perf/builtin-inject.c
+++ b/tools/perf/builtin-inject.c
@@ -443,6 +443,7 @@ int cmd_inject(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix __maybe_unused)
 			 "be more verbose (show build ids, etc)"),
 		OPT_STRING(0, "kallsyms", &symbol_conf.kallsyms_name, "file",
 			   "kallsyms pathname"),
+		OPT_BOOLEAN('f', "force", &file.force, "don't complain, do it"),
 		OPT_END()
 	};
 	const char * const inject_usage[] = {