From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752475AbaFIFoC (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Jun 2014 01:44:02 -0400 Received: from lgeamrelo02.lge.com ([156.147.1.126]:49886 "EHLO lgeamrelo02.lge.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750796AbaFIFnx (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Jun 2014 01:43:53 -0400 X-Original-SENDERIP: 10.177.220.181 X-Original-MAILFROM: namhyung@kernel.org From: Namhyung Kim To: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo , Jiri Olsa Cc: Peter Zijlstra , Ingo Molnar , Paul Mackerras , Namhyung Kim , Namhyung Kim , LKML , Andi Kleen , Frederic Weisbecker Subject: [PATCH] perf record: Fix to honor user freq/interval properly Date: Mon, 9 Jun 2014 14:43:37 +0900 Message-Id: <1402292617-26278-1-git-send-email-namhyung@kernel.org> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.0.0 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org When configuring event perf checked a wrong condition that user specified both of freq (-F) and period (-c) or the event has no default value. This worked because most of events don't have default value and only tracepoint events have default of 1 (and it's not desirable to change it for those events). However, Andi's downloadable event patch changes the situation so it cannot change the value for those events. Fix it by allowing override the default value if user gives one of the options. $ perf record -a -e uops_retired.all -F 4000 sleep 1 [ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ] [ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.325 MB perf.data (~14185 samples) ] $ perf evlist -F cpu/uops_retired.all/: sample_freq=4000 Cc: Andi Kleen Cc: Frederic Weisbecker Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim --- tools/perf/util/evsel.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/tools/perf/util/evsel.c b/tools/perf/util/evsel.c index 5c28d82b76c4..5ff811c67adc 100644 --- a/tools/perf/util/evsel.c +++ b/tools/perf/util/evsel.c @@ -589,10 +589,10 @@ void perf_evsel__config(struct perf_evsel *evsel, struct record_opts *opts) } /* - * We default some events to a 1 default interval. But keep + * We default some events to have a default interval. But keep * it a weak assumption overridable by the user. */ - if (!attr->sample_period || (opts->user_freq != UINT_MAX && + if (!attr->sample_period || (opts->user_freq != UINT_MAX || opts->user_interval != ULLONG_MAX)) { if (opts->freq) { perf_evsel__set_sample_bit(evsel, PERIOD); -- 2.0.0