perf tools: change event inheritance logic in stat and record

By default, event inheritance across fork and pthread_create was on but the -i
option of stat and record, which enabled inheritance, led to believe it was off
by default.

This patch fixes this logic by inverting the meaning of the -i option.  By
default inheritance is on whether you attach to a process (-p), a thread (-t)
or start a process. If you pass -i, then you turn off inheritance. Turning off
inheritance if you don't need it, helps limit perf resource usage as well.

The patch also fixes perf stat -t xxxx and perf record -t xxxx which did not
start the counters.

Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
LKML-Reference: <4bea9d2f.d60ce30a.0b5b.08e1@mx.google.com>
Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

2 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt
index 020d871c7934..34e255fc3e2f 100644
--- a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt
+++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt
@@ -69,8 +69,8 @@ OPTIONS
         Output file name.
 
 -i::
---inherit::
-        Child tasks inherit counters.
+--no-inherit::
+        Child tasks do not inherit counters.
 -F::
 --freq=::
         Profile at this frequency.
diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-stat.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-stat.txt
index 484080dd5b6f..2cab8e8c33d0 100644
--- a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-stat.txt
+++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-stat.txt
@@ -31,8 +31,8 @@ OPTIONS
          hexadecimal event descriptor.
 
 -i::
---inherit::
-        child tasks inherit counters
+--no-inherit::
+        child tasks do not inherit counters
 -p::
 --pid=<pid>::
         stat events on existing pid