perf evlist: Set the correct idx when adding dummy events
authorArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Fri, 3 Nov 2017 18:13:29 +0000 (15:13 -0300)
committerArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Tue, 28 Nov 2017 17:19:00 +0000 (14:19 -0300)
The evsel->idx field is used mainly to access the right bucket in
per-event arrays such as the annotation ones, but also to set
evsel->tracking, that in turn will decide what of the events will ask
for PERF_RECORD_{MMAP,COMM,EXEC} to be generated, i.e. which
perf_event_attr will have its mmap, etc fields set.

When we were adding the "dummy" event using perf_evlist__add_dummy() we
were not setting it correctly, which could result in multiple tracking
events.

Now that I'll try using a dummy event to be the tracking one when using
'perf record --delay', i.e. when we process the --delay
setting we may already have the evlist set up, like with:

  perf record -e cycles,instructions --delay 1000 ./workload

We will need to add a "dummy" event, then reset evsel->tracking for the
first event, "cycles", and set it instead to the dummy one, and also
setting its attr.enable_on_exec, so that we get the PERF_RECORD_MMAP,
etc metadata events while waiting to enable the explicitely requested
events, so lets get this straight and set the right evsel->idx.

Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Bram Stolk <b.stolk@gmail.com>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-nrdfchshqxf7diszhxcecqb9@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
tools/perf/util/evlist.c

index c6c891e154a63c67971c04512c0b576d5bf43087..ccb749f9a83f96a2499b3c98982775b75f072803 100644 (file)
@@ -257,7 +257,7 @@ int perf_evlist__add_dummy(struct perf_evlist *evlist)
                .config = PERF_COUNT_SW_DUMMY,
                .size   = sizeof(attr), /* to capture ABI version */
        };
-       struct perf_evsel *evsel = perf_evsel__new(&attr);
+       struct perf_evsel *evsel = perf_evsel__new_idx(&attr, evlist->nr_entries);
 
        if (evsel == NULL)
                return -ENOMEM;