From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753531Ab2A2Rv0 (ORCPT ); Sun, 29 Jan 2012 12:51:26 -0500 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:45664 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753232Ab2A2RvZ (ORCPT ); Sun, 29 Jan 2012 12:51:25 -0500 Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2012 19:50:57 +0200 From: Gleb Natapov To: Ingo Molnar Cc: Andrew Steets , Peter Zijlstra , linux-perf-users@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Paul Mackerras , Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Subject: Re: perf: prctl(PR_TASK_PERF_EVENTS_DISABLE) has no effect Message-ID: <20120129175057.GC2938@redhat.com> References: <4F22D8D9.3010108@rgmadvisors.com> <20120128120151.GA10390@elte.hu> <4F248938.5030507@rgmadvisors.com> <20120129163235.GB23408@elte.hu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20120129163235.GB23408@elte.hu> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 05:32:35PM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > * Andrew Steets wrote: > > > 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. > > That usecase indeed makes sense. Peter, could we allow this for > privileged tasks, depending on the perf_paranoia settings or > such? > This sounds useful not only for privileged tasks. Why not make it event attribute? If user wants PR_TASK_PERF_EVENTS_DISABLE be respected for an event it can specify special argument like: perf record -e cycles:n ./a.out -- Gleb.