perf tools: Enable overwrite settings
authorWang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com>
Thu, 14 Jul 2016 08:34:45 +0000 (08:34 +0000)
committerArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Fri, 15 Jul 2016 20:27:51 +0000 (17:27 -0300)
commit626a6b784e91bc61ca9fe0f9dd5bb60cb91ccb6b
tree098aaace6e0697084a0c9e88c6c5b26927e215f3
parentf6cdff8329e04b08cbc195194223e9dbadeeaa1e
perf tools: Enable overwrite settings

This patch allows following config terms and option:

Globally setting events to overwrite;

  # perf record --overwrite ...

Set specific events to be overwrite or no-overwrite.

  # perf record --event cycles/overwrite/ ...
  # perf record --event cycles/no-overwrite/ ...

Add missing config terms and update the config term array size because
the longest string length has changed.

For overwritable events, it automatically selects attr.write_backward
since perf requires it to be backward for reading.

Test result:

  # perf record --overwrite -e syscalls:*enter_nanosleep* usleep 1
  [ perf record: Woken up 2 times to write data ]
  [ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.011 MB perf.data (1 samples) ]
  # perf evlist -v
  syscalls:sys_enter_nanosleep: type: 2, size: 112, config: 0x134, { sample_period, sample_freq }: 1, sample_type: IP|TID|TIME|CPU|PERIOD|RAW, disabled: 1, inherit: 1, mmap: 1, comm: 1, enable_on_exec: 1, task: 1, sample_id_all: 1, exclude_guest: 1, mmap2: 1, comm_exec: 1, write_backward: 1
  # Tip: use 'perf evlist --trace-fields' to show fields for tracepoint events

Signed-off-by: Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com>
Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Nilay Vaish <nilayvaish@gmail.com>
Cc: Zefan Li <lizefan@huawei.com>
Cc: pi3orama@163.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1468485287-33422-14-git-send-email-wangnan0@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: He Kuang <hekuang@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt
tools/perf/builtin-record.c
tools/perf/perf.h
tools/perf/tests/backward-ring-buffer.c
tools/perf/util/evsel.c
tools/perf/util/evsel.h
tools/perf/util/parse-events.c
tools/perf/util/parse-events.h
tools/perf/util/parse-events.l