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Subject[tip:perf/core] perf evlist: Remove obsolete dummy execve
Commit-ID:  5c6974f49832a55edc9ca744323778947c104ca0
Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/5c6974f49832a55edc9ca744323778947c104ca0
Author: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
AuthorDate: Fri, 2 Aug 2013 17:41:09 -0700
Committer: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
CommitDate: Wed, 7 Aug 2013 17:35:28 -0300

perf evlist: Remove obsolete dummy execve

Minor cleanup.

The dummy execve to pre-resolve the PLT is obsolete since
"enable_on_execve" was added. The counters are only
running after the execve anyways. So just remove it.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1375490473-1503-2-git-send-email-andi@firstfloor.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
---
tools/perf/util/evlist.c | 7 -------
1 file changed, 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tools/perf/util/evlist.c b/tools/perf/util/evlist.c
index da2dd92..c7d111f 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/evlist.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/evlist.c
@@ -837,13 +837,6 @@ int perf_evlist__prepare_workload(struct perf_evlist *evlist,
fcntl(go_pipe[0], F_SETFD, FD_CLOEXEC);

/*
- * Do a dummy execvp to get the PLT entry resolved,
- * so we avoid the resolver overhead on the real
- * execvp call.
- */
- execvp("", (char **)argv);
-
- /*
* Tell the parent we're ready to go
*/
close(child_ready_pipe[1]);

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