perf record: Create events initially disabled and enable after init
authorDavid Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Thu, 25 Aug 2011 16:17:55 +0000 (10:17 -0600)
committerArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Fri, 23 Sep 2011 17:36:53 +0000 (14:36 -0300)
commit764e16a30a77a9c8346fbae6615e7c818ce9d00f
tree584d41f3bd611dfbf1345396b47629971fa035fd
parent694bf407b06113f5e0f71764756f11903126fec0
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 <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1314289075-14706-1-git-send-email-dsahern@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
tools/perf/builtin-record.c
tools/perf/util/evlist.c
tools/perf/util/evlist.h