perf record: Delay setting the header writing atexit call
While testing the --filter option I noticed that we were writing lots of
unneeded stuff to the perf.data header when the filter ioctl fails, so
move the atexit(atexit_header) call to after we create the counters
successfully.
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>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-record.c b/tools/perf/builtin-record.c
index a4aaadc..db4cd1e 100644
--- a/tools/perf/builtin-record.c
+++ b/tools/perf/builtin-record.c
@@ -538,11 +538,6 @@
if (have_tracepoints(&evsel_list->entries))
perf_header__set_feat(&session->header, HEADER_TRACE_INFO);
- /*
- * perf_session__delete(session) will be called at atexit_header()
- */
- atexit(atexit_header);
-
if (forks) {
child_pid = fork();
if (child_pid < 0) {
@@ -601,6 +596,11 @@
perf_session__set_sample_type(session, sample_type);
+ /*
+ * perf_session__delete(session) will be called at atexit_header()
+ */
+ atexit(atexit_header);
+
if (pipe_output) {
err = perf_header__write_pipe(output);
if (err < 0)