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Commit 62a1a63a authored by Yunlong Song's avatar Yunlong Song Committed by Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
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perf mem: Support using -f to override perf.data file ownership



Enable perf mem to use perf.data when it is not owned by current user or
root.

Example:

 # perf mem -t load record ls
 # chown Yunlong.Song:Yunlong.Song perf.data
 # ls -al perf.data
 -rw------- 1 Yunlong.Song Yunlong.Song 16392 Apr  2 14:34 perf.data
 # id
 uid=0(root) gid=0(root) groups=0(root),64(pkcs11)

Before this patch:

 # perf mem -D report
 File perf.data not owned by current user or root (use -f to override)
 # perf mem -D -f report
   Error: unknown switch `f'

  usage: perf mem [<options>] {record|report}

     -t, --type <type>     memory operations(load,store) Default load,store
     -D, --dump-raw-samples
                           dump raw samples in ASCII
     -U, --hide-unresolved
                           Only display entries resolved to a symbol
     -i, --input <file>    input file name
     -C, --cpu <cpu>       list of cpus to profile
     -x, --field-separator <separator>
                           separator for columns, no spaces will be added
                           between columns '.' is reserved.

As shown above, the -f option does not work at all.

After this patch:

 # perf mem -D report
 File perf.data not owned by current user or root (use -f to override)
 # perf mem -D -f report
 # PID, TID, IP, ADDR, LOCAL WEIGHT, DSRC, SYMBOL
 39095 39095 0xffffffff81127e40 0x016ffff887f45148338 8 0x68100142
 /proc/kcore:perf_event_aux
 39095 39095 0xffffffff8100a3fe 0xffff89007f8cb7d0 6 0x68100142
 /proc/kcore:native_sched_clock
 39095 39095 0xffffffff81309139 0xffff88bf44c9ded8 6 0x68100142
 /proc/kcore:acpi_map_lookup
 39095 39095 0xffffffff810f8c4c 0xffff89007f8ccd88 6 0x68100142
 /proc/kcore:rcu_nmi_exit
 39095 39095 0xffffffff81136346 0xffff88fea995dd50 6 0x68100142
 /proc/kcore:unlock_page
 39095 39095 0xffffffff812a64a2 0xffff88fea995dcc8 6 0x68100142
 /proc/kcore:half_md4_transform
 39095 39095 0x7f0cf877c7e9 0x25dfb94 6 0x68100142
 /lib64/libc-2.19.so:__readdir64
 39095 39095 0x7f0cf87575a3 0x7f0cf9163731 6 0x68100142
 /lib64/libc-2.19.so:__strcoll_l
 39095 39095 0xffffffff8116910e 0xffffea01c1bfbd50 23 0x68100242
 /proc/kcore:page_remove_rmap

As shown above, the -f option really works now.

Signed-off-by: default avatarYunlong Song <yunlong.song@huawei.com>
Tested-by: default avatarArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1427982439-27388-7-git-send-email-yunlong.song@huawei.com


Signed-off-by: default avatarArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
parent c4ac732a
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