linux/tools/perf
Zhang, Yanmin 46be604b5b perf record: Enable counters only when kernel is execing subcommand
'perf record' starts counters before subcommand is execed, so
the statistics is not precise because it includes data of some
preparation steps. I fix it with the patch.

In addition, change the condition to fork/exec subcommand. If
there is a subcommand parameter, perf always fork/exec it. The
usage example is:

 # perf record -f -a sleep 10

So this command could collect statistics for 10 seconds
precisely. User still could stop it by CTRL+C. Without the new
capability, user could only input CTRL+C to stop it without
precise time clock.

Signed-off-by: Zhang Yanmin <yanmin_zhang@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Sheng Yang <sheng@linux.intel.com>
Cc: oerg Roedel <joro@8bytes.org>
Cc: Jes Sorensen <Jes.Sorensen@redhat.com>
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Cc: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Cc: <zhiteng.huang@intel.com>
Cc: Zachary Amsden <zamsden@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <1268922965-14774-2-git-send-email-acme@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-03-18 16:21:11 +01:00
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Documentation perf probe: Add --dry-run option 2010-03-17 11:32:31 +01:00
bench perf sched: Fix build failure on sparc 2009-12-14 08:59:12 +01:00
scripts perf/scripts: Add syscall tracing scripts 2010-02-25 04:07:48 +01:00
util perf probe: Fix !dwarf build 2010-03-17 12:13:28 +01:00
.gitignore perf: Ignore perf-archive temp file 2010-01-29 10:37:33 +01:00
CREDITS perf_counter tools: Add CREDITS file for Git contributors 2009-06-24 19:54:29 +02:00
Makefile perf report: Implement initial UI using newt 2010-03-12 10:28:46 +01:00
builtin-annotate.c perf annotate: Properly notify the user that vmlinux is missing 2010-03-15 17:16:25 +01:00
builtin-bench.c perf bench: Add "all" pseudo subsystem and "all" pseudo suite 2009-12-14 08:51:19 +01:00
builtin-buildid-cache.c perf buildid-cache: Add new command to manage build-id cache 2010-01-21 08:31:29 +01:00
builtin-buildid-list.c perf build-id: Move the routine to find DSOs with hits to the lib 2010-02-04 09:33:26 +01:00
builtin-diff.c perf session: Change perf_session post processing functions to take histogram tree 2010-03-10 13:53:49 +01:00
builtin-help.c perf: Make cmd_to_page() function more compact 2010-01-13 10:53:51 +01:00
builtin-kmem.c perf symbols: Remove perf_session usage in symbols layer 2010-02-04 09:33:24 +01:00
builtin-list.c perf list: Fix large list output by using the pager 2009-08-13 09:05:48 +02:00
builtin-lock.c perf lock: Drop the buffers multiplexing dependency 2010-02-27 17:06:19 +01:00
builtin-probe.c perf probe: Introduce kprobe_trace_event and perf_probe_event 2010-03-17 11:32:31 +01:00
builtin-record.c perf record: Enable counters only when kernel is execing subcommand 2010-03-18 16:21:11 +01:00
builtin-report.c perf report: Implement initial UI using newt 2010-03-12 10:28:46 +01:00
builtin-sched.c perf tools: Don't cast RIP to pointers 2010-01-16 10:58:45 +01:00
builtin-stat.c perf stat: Enable counters when collecting process-wide or system-wide data 2010-03-18 16:21:11 +01:00
builtin-timechart.c Merge branch 'perf/urgent' into perf/core 2010-01-29 10:36:22 +01:00
builtin-top.c Merge branch 'perf/urgent' into perf/core 2010-03-17 11:31:48 +01:00
builtin-trace.c perf trace: Don't use pager if scripting 2010-03-04 12:19:55 +01:00
builtin.h perf lock: Introduce new tool "perf lock", for analyzing lock statistics 2010-01-31 09:08:26 +01:00
command-list.txt perf lock: Fix and add misc documentally things 2010-02-27 17:05:22 +01:00
design.txt perf: Fix few typos + cosmetics 2010-01-13 17:39:44 +01:00
perf-archive.sh perf archive: Don't try to collect files without a build-id 2010-03-02 19:27:46 +01:00
perf.c perf tools: Fix non-newt build 2010-03-13 08:23:37 +01:00
perf.h perf top: Export get_window_dimensions 2010-03-12 10:28:36 +01:00