perf evsel: Allow specifying if the inherit bit should be set

As this is a per-cpu attribute, we can't set it up in advance and use it
for all the calls.

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>

4 files changed, 16 insertions, 14 deletions

diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-stat.c b/tools/perf/builtin-stat.c
index b5fe522f11dc..e2a2d02c5c43 100644
--- a/tools/perf/builtin-stat.c
+++ b/tools/perf/builtin-stat.c
@@ -169,7 +169,7 @@ static int create_perf_stat_counter(struct perf_evsel *evsel)
                                     PERF_FORMAT_TOTAL_TIME_RUNNING;
 
         if (system_wide)
-                return perf_evsel__open_per_cpu(evsel, cpus, false);
+                return perf_evsel__open_per_cpu(evsel, cpus, false, false);
 
         attr->inherit = !no_inherit;
         if (target_pid == -1 && target_tid == -1) {
@@ -177,7 +177,7 @@ static int create_perf_stat_counter(struct perf_evsel *evsel)
                 attr->enable_on_exec = 1;
         }
 
-        return perf_evsel__open_per_thread(evsel, threads, false);
+        return perf_evsel__open_per_thread(evsel, threads, false, false);
 }
 
 /*
diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-test.c b/tools/perf/builtin-test.c
index 4282d671b161..7287158c4830 100644
--- a/tools/perf/builtin-test.c
+++ b/tools/perf/builtin-test.c
@@ -289,7 +289,7 @@ static int test__open_syscall_event(void)
                 goto out_thread_map_delete;
         }
 
-        if (perf_evsel__open_per_thread(evsel, threads, false) < 0) {
+        if (perf_evsel__open_per_thread(evsel, threads, false, false) < 0) {
                 pr_debug("failed to open counter: %s, "
                          "tweak /proc/sys/kernel/perf_event_paranoid?\n",
                          strerror(errno));
@@ -364,7 +364,7 @@ static int test__open_syscall_event_on_all_cpus(void)
                 goto out_thread_map_delete;
         }
 
-        if (perf_evsel__open(evsel, cpus, threads, false) < 0) {
+        if (perf_evsel__open(evsel, cpus, threads, false, false) < 0) {
                 pr_debug("failed to open counter: %s, "
                          "tweak /proc/sys/kernel/perf_event_paranoid?\n",
                          strerror(errno));
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/evsel.c b/tools/perf/util/evsel.c
index da473ec93c75..82a00536892a 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/evsel.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/evsel.c
@@ -128,7 +128,7 @@ int __perf_evsel__read(struct perf_evsel *evsel,
 }
 
 static int __perf_evsel__open(struct perf_evsel *evsel, struct cpu_map *cpus,
-                              struct thread_map *threads, bool group)
+                              struct thread_map *threads, bool group, bool inherit)
 {
         int cpu, thread;
 
@@ -139,6 +139,8 @@ static int __perf_evsel__open(struct perf_evsel *evsel, struct cpu_map *cpus,
         for (cpu = 0; cpu < cpus->nr; cpu++) {
                 int group_fd = -1;
 
+                evsel->attr.inherit = (cpus->map[cpu] < 0) && inherit;
+
                 for (thread = 0; thread < threads->nr; thread++) {
                         FD(evsel, cpu, thread) = sys_perf_event_open(&evsel->attr,
                                                                      threads->map[thread],
@@ -182,7 +184,7 @@ static struct {
 };
 
 int perf_evsel__open(struct perf_evsel *evsel, struct cpu_map *cpus,
-                     struct thread_map *threads, bool group)
+                     struct thread_map *threads, bool group, bool inherit)
 {
         if (cpus == NULL) {
                 /* Work around old compiler warnings about strict aliasing */
@@ -192,17 +194,17 @@ int perf_evsel__open(struct perf_evsel *evsel, struct cpu_map *cpus,
         if (threads == NULL)
                 threads = &empty_thread_map.map;
 
-        return __perf_evsel__open(evsel, cpus, threads, group);
+        return __perf_evsel__open(evsel, cpus, threads, group, inherit);
 }
 
 int perf_evsel__open_per_cpu(struct perf_evsel *evsel,
-                             struct cpu_map *cpus, bool group)
+                             struct cpu_map *cpus, bool group, bool inherit)
 {
-        return __perf_evsel__open(evsel, cpus, &empty_thread_map.map, group);
+        return __perf_evsel__open(evsel, cpus, &empty_thread_map.map, group, inherit);
 }
 
 int perf_evsel__open_per_thread(struct perf_evsel *evsel,
-                                struct thread_map *threads, bool group)
+                                struct thread_map *threads, bool group, bool inherit)
 {
-        return __perf_evsel__open(evsel, &empty_cpu_map.map, threads, group);
+        return __perf_evsel__open(evsel, &empty_cpu_map.map, threads, group, inherit);
 }
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/evsel.h b/tools/perf/util/evsel.h
index 0962b500cb6d..1594696bd127 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/evsel.h
+++ b/tools/perf/util/evsel.h
@@ -46,11 +46,11 @@ void perf_evsel__free_fd(struct perf_evsel *evsel);
 void perf_evsel__close_fd(struct perf_evsel *evsel, int ncpus, int nthreads);
 
 int perf_evsel__open_per_cpu(struct perf_evsel *evsel,
-                             struct cpu_map *cpus, bool group);
+                             struct cpu_map *cpus, bool group, bool inherit);
 int perf_evsel__open_per_thread(struct perf_evsel *evsel,
-                                struct thread_map *threads, bool group);
+                                struct thread_map *threads, bool group, bool inherit);
 int perf_evsel__open(struct perf_evsel *evsel, struct cpu_map *cpus,
-                     struct thread_map *threads, bool group);
+                     struct thread_map *threads, bool group, bool inherit);
 
 #define perf_evsel__match(evsel, t, c)          \
         (evsel->attr.type == PERF_TYPE_##t &&   \