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perf record: Prevent override of attr->sample_period for libpfm4 events
authorStephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Sat, 12 Sep 2020 02:56:53 +0000 (19:56 -0700)
committerArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Mon, 14 Sep 2020 21:44:35 +0000 (18:44 -0300)
commitd101152eb3d93ea607aa3b9a6f96f255c112fe24
tree055fc8d4044e1db6d980e1fef8cbd4f10fa65589
parent8394345b4fcafc56b1959f67c9cf028bf0fd4c7e
perf record: Prevent override of attr->sample_period for libpfm4 events

Before:

  $ perf record -c 10000 --pfm-events=cycles:period=77777

Would yield a cycles event with period=10000, instead of 77777.

the event string and perf record initializing the event.
This was due to an ordering issue between libpfm4 parsing

events with attr->sample_period != 0 by the time
intent of the author.
perf_evsel__config() is invoked. This seems to have been the
This patch fixes the problem by preventing override for

Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Andrii Nakryiko <andriin@fb.com>
Cc: Athira Jajeev <atrajeev@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: John Fastabend <john.fastabend@gmail.com>
Cc: KP Singh <kpsingh@chromium.org>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Martin KaFai Lau <kafai@fb.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Song Liu <songliubraving@fb.com>
Cc: Yonghong Song <yhs@fb.com>
Link: http://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200912025655.1337192-3-irogers@google.com
Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
tools/perf/util/evsel.c