From 764e16a30a77a9c8346fbae6615e7c818ce9d00f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: David Ahern Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2011 10:17:55 -0600 Subject: perf record: Create events initially disabled and enable after init perf-record currently creates events enabled. When doing a system wide collection (-a arg) this causes data collection for perf's initialization activities -- eg., perf_event__synthesize_threads(). For some events (e.g., context switch S/W event or tracepoints like syscalls) perf's initialization causes a lot of events to be captured frequently generating "Check IO/CPU overload!" warnings on larger systems (e.g., 2 socket, quad core, hyperthreading). perf's initialization phase can be skipped by creating events disabled and then enabling them once the initialization is done. Cc: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Thomas Gleixner Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1314289075-14706-1-git-send-email-dsahern@gmail.com Signed-off-by: David Ahern Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo --- tools/perf/builtin-record.c | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) (limited to 'tools/perf/builtin-record.c') diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-record.c b/tools/perf/builtin-record.c index 6b0519f885e..f4c3fbee4ba 100644 --- a/tools/perf/builtin-record.c +++ b/tools/perf/builtin-record.c @@ -161,6 +161,7 @@ static void config_attr(struct perf_evsel *evsel, struct perf_evlist *evlist) struct perf_event_attr *attr = &evsel->attr; int track = !evsel->idx; /* only the first counter needs these */ + attr->disabled = 1; attr->inherit = !no_inherit; attr->read_format = PERF_FORMAT_TOTAL_TIME_ENABLED | PERF_FORMAT_TOTAL_TIME_RUNNING | @@ -671,6 +672,8 @@ static int __cmd_record(int argc, const char **argv) } } + perf_evlist__enable(evsel_list); + /* * Let the child rip */ -- cgit v1.2.3