From 57e7986ed142417498155ebcd5eaf617ac37136d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Paul Mackerras Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2009 16:07:19 +1000 Subject: perf_counter: Provide a way to enable counters on exec This provides a way to mark a counter to be enabled on the next exec. This is useful for measuring the total activity of a program without including overhead from the process that launches it. This also changes the perf stat command to use this new facility. Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras Cc: Peter Zijlstra LKML-Reference: <19017.43927.838745.689203@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- tools/perf/builtin-stat.c | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) (limited to 'tools/perf') diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-stat.c b/tools/perf/builtin-stat.c index 201ef2367dcb..2e03524a1de0 100644 --- a/tools/perf/builtin-stat.c +++ b/tools/perf/builtin-stat.c @@ -116,8 +116,9 @@ static void create_perf_stat_counter(int counter, int pid) fd[cpu][counter], strerror(errno)); } } else { - attr->inherit = inherit; - attr->disabled = 1; + attr->inherit = inherit; + attr->disabled = 1; + attr->enable_on_exec = 1; fd[0][counter] = sys_perf_counter_open(attr, pid, -1, -1, 0); if (fd[0][counter] < 0 && verbose) @@ -262,7 +263,6 @@ static int run_perf_stat(int argc, const char **argv) * Enable counters and exec the command: */ t0 = rdclock(); - prctl(PR_TASK_PERF_COUNTERS_ENABLE); close(go_pipe[1]); wait(&status); -- cgit v1.2.2