perf record: Explicity program a default counter

Up until now record has worked on the assumption that type=0, config=0
was a suitable configuration - which it is. Lets make this a little more
explicit and more readable via the use of proper symbols.

[ Impact: cleanup ]

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-record.c b/tools/perf/builtin-record.c
index 29259e74dcfa..0f5771f615da 100644
--- a/tools/perf/builtin-record.c
+++ b/tools/perf/builtin-record.c
@@ -568,8 +568,11 @@ int cmd_record(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
         if (!argc && target_pid == -1 && !system_wide)
                 usage_with_options(record_usage, options);
 
-        if (!nr_counters)
-                nr_counters = 1;
+        if (!nr_counters) {
+                nr_counters     = 1;
+                attrs[0].type   = PERF_TYPE_HARDWARE;
+                attrs[0].config = PERF_COUNT_HW_CPU_CYCLES;
+        }
 
         for (counter = 0; counter < nr_counters; counter++) {
                 if (attrs[counter].sample_period)