perf record: Create events initially disabled and enable after init

perf-record currently creates events enabled. When doing a system wide
collection (-a arg) this causes data collection for perf's
initialization activities -- eg., perf_event__synthesize_threads().

For some events (e.g., context switch S/W event or tracepoints like
syscalls) perf's initialization causes a lot of events to be captured
frequently generating "Check IO/CPU overload!" warnings on larger
systems (e.g., 2 socket, quad core, hyperthreading).

perf's initialization phase can be skipped by creating events
disabled and then enabling them once the initialization is done.

Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1314289075-14706-1-git-send-email-dsahern@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
This commit is contained in:
David Ahern 2011-08-25 10:17:55 -06:00 committed by Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
parent 694bf407b0
commit 764e16a30a
3 changed files with 17 additions and 0 deletions

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@ -161,6 +161,7 @@ static void config_attr(struct perf_evsel *evsel, struct perf_evlist *evlist)
struct perf_event_attr *attr = &evsel->attr;
int track = !evsel->idx; /* only the first counter needs these */
attr->disabled = 1;
attr->inherit = !no_inherit;
attr->read_format = PERF_FORMAT_TOTAL_TIME_ENABLED |
PERF_FORMAT_TOTAL_TIME_RUNNING |
@ -671,6 +672,8 @@ static int __cmd_record(int argc, const char **argv)
}
}
perf_evlist__enable(evsel_list);
/*
* Let the child rip
*/

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@ -113,6 +113,19 @@ void perf_evlist__disable(struct perf_evlist *evlist)
}
}
void perf_evlist__enable(struct perf_evlist *evlist)
{
int cpu, thread;
struct perf_evsel *pos;
for (cpu = 0; cpu < evlist->cpus->nr; cpu++) {
list_for_each_entry(pos, &evlist->entries, node) {
for (thread = 0; thread < evlist->threads->nr; thread++)
ioctl(FD(pos, cpu, thread), PERF_EVENT_IOC_ENABLE);
}
}
}
int perf_evlist__alloc_pollfd(struct perf_evlist *evlist)
{
int nfds = evlist->cpus->nr * evlist->threads->nr * evlist->nr_entries;

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@ -54,6 +54,7 @@ int perf_evlist__mmap(struct perf_evlist *evlist, int pages, bool overwrite);
void perf_evlist__munmap(struct perf_evlist *evlist);
void perf_evlist__disable(struct perf_evlist *evlist);
void perf_evlist__enable(struct perf_evlist *evlist);
static inline void perf_evlist__set_maps(struct perf_evlist *evlist,
struct cpu_map *cpus,