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>

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 6 deletions

diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-record.c b/tools/perf/builtin-record.c
index 6b77b285fe10..0f467cf7aa72 100644
--- a/tools/perf/builtin-record.c
+++ b/tools/perf/builtin-record.c
@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ static pid_t			target_tid			=     -1;
 static pid_t                    *all_tids                       =      NULL;
 static int                      thread_num                      =      0;
 static pid_t                    child_pid                       =     -1;
-static bool                     inherit                         =   true;
+static bool                     no_inherit                      =  false;
 static enum write_mode_t        write_mode                      = WRITE_FORCE;
 static bool                     call_graph                      =  false;
 static bool                     inherit_stat                    =  false;
@@ -298,8 +298,8 @@ static void create_counter(int counter, int cpu)
 
         attr->mmap              = track;
         attr->comm              = track;
-        attr->inherit           = inherit;
-        if (target_pid == -1 && !system_wide) {
+        attr->inherit           = !no_inherit;
+        if (target_pid == -1 && target_tid == -1 && !system_wide) {
                 attr->disabled = 1;
                 attr->enable_on_exec = 1;
         }
@@ -641,7 +641,7 @@ static int __cmd_record(int argc, const char **argv)
                 close(child_ready_pipe[0]);
         }
 
-        if ((!system_wide && !inherit) || profile_cpu != -1) {
+        if ((!system_wide && no_inherit) || profile_cpu != -1) {
                 open_counters(profile_cpu);
         } else {
                 nr_cpus = read_cpu_map();
@@ -821,8 +821,8 @@ static const struct option options[] = {
                     "event period to sample"),
         OPT_STRING('o', "output", &output_name, "file",
                     "output file name"),
-        OPT_BOOLEAN('i', "inherit", &inherit,
-                    "child tasks inherit counters"),
+        OPT_BOOLEAN('i', "no-inherit", &no_inherit,
+                    "child tasks do not inherit counters"),
         OPT_INTEGER('F', "freq", &user_freq,
                     "profile at this frequency"),
         OPT_INTEGER('m', "mmap-pages", &mmap_pages,