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perf: Disable PERF_RECORD_MMAP2 support
authorStephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Thu, 17 Oct 2013 17:32:15 +0000 (19:32 +0200)
committerArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Thu, 17 Oct 2013 19:27:14 +0000 (16:27 -0300)
commit5f682841d2a1326819683aa708b1f38cc6b787af
treea867d484f48cd124f3333ee6d10b120d2b9ac784
parent7eda488af286347af210ec8eae0503620ac09371
perf: Disable PERF_RECORD_MMAP2 support

For now, we disable the extended MMAP record support (MMAP2).

We have identified cases where it would not report the correct mapping
information, clone(VM_CLONE) but with separate pids.  We will revisit
the support once we find a solution for this case.

The patch changes the kernel to return EINVAL if attr->mmap2 is set. The
patch also modifies the perf tool to use regular PERF_RECORD_MMAP for
synthetic events and it also prevents the tool from requesting
attr->mmap2 mode because the kernel would reject it.

The support will be revisited once the kenrel interface is updated.

In V2, we reduce the patch to the strict minimum.

In V3, we avoid calling perf_event_open() with mmap2 set because we know
it will fail and require fallback retry.

Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20131017173215.GA8820@quad
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
kernel/events/core.c
tools/perf/util/event.c
tools/perf/util/evsel.c