perf evsel: Fix use of inherit
perf stat doesn't mmap and its perfectly fine for it to use task-bound
counters with inheritance.
So set the attr.inherit on the caller and leave the syscall itself to
validate it.
When the mmap fails perf_evlist__mmap will just emit a warning if this
is the failure reason.
Reported-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110414170121.GC3229@ghostprotocols.net
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/python.c b/tools/perf/util/python.c
index a9f2d7e..f5e3845 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/python.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/python.c
@@ -498,11 +498,11 @@
struct cpu_map *cpus = NULL;
struct thread_map *threads = NULL;
PyObject *pcpus = NULL, *pthreads = NULL;
- int group = 0, overwrite = 0;
- static char *kwlist[] = {"cpus", "threads", "group", "overwrite", NULL, NULL};
+ int group = 0, inherit = 0;
+ static char *kwlist[] = {"cpus", "threads", "group", "inherit", NULL, NULL};
if (!PyArg_ParseTupleAndKeywords(args, kwargs, "|OOii", kwlist,
- &pcpus, &pthreads, &group, &overwrite))
+ &pcpus, &pthreads, &group, &inherit))
return NULL;
if (pthreads != NULL)
@@ -511,7 +511,8 @@
if (pcpus != NULL)
cpus = ((struct pyrf_cpu_map *)pcpus)->cpus;
- if (perf_evsel__open(evsel, cpus, threads, group, overwrite) < 0) {
+ evsel->attr.inherit = inherit;
+ if (perf_evsel__open(evsel, cpus, threads, group) < 0) {
PyErr_SetFromErrno(PyExc_OSError);
return NULL;
}