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SubjectRe: [PATCH] perf record: Disallow -c and -F option at the same time
Em Fri, Apr 02, 2021 at 06:40:20PM +0900, Namhyung Kim escreveu:
> It's confusing which one is effective when the both options are given.
> The current code happens to use -c in this case but users might not be
> aware of it. We can change it to complain about that instead of
> relying on the implicit priority.
>
> Before:
> $ perf record -c 111111 -F 99 true
> [ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ]
> [ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.031 MB perf.data (8 samples) ]
>
> $ perf evlist -F
> cycles: sample_period=111111
>
> After:
> $ perf record -c 111111 -F 99 true
> cannot set frequency and period at the same time
>
> So this change can break existing usages, but I think it's rare to
> have both options and it'd be better changing them.

Humm, perhaps we can just make that an warning stating that -c is used
if both are specified?

$ perf record -c 111111 -F 99 true
Frequency and period can't be used the same time, -c 11111 will be used.

- Arnaldo

> Suggested-by: Alexey Alexandrov <aalexand@google.com>
> Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
> ---
> tools/perf/util/record.c | 8 +++++++-
> 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/tools/perf/util/record.c b/tools/perf/util/record.c
> index f99852d54b14..43e5b563dee8 100644
> --- a/tools/perf/util/record.c
> +++ b/tools/perf/util/record.c
> @@ -157,9 +157,15 @@ static int get_max_rate(unsigned int *rate)
> static int record_opts__config_freq(struct record_opts *opts)
> {
> bool user_freq = opts->user_freq != UINT_MAX;
> + bool user_interval = opts->user_interval != ULLONG_MAX;
> unsigned int max_rate;
>
> - if (opts->user_interval != ULLONG_MAX)
> + if (user_interval && user_freq) {
> + pr_err("cannot set frequency and period at the same time\n");
> + return -1;
> + }
> +
> + if (user_interval)
> opts->default_interval = opts->user_interval;
> if (user_freq)
> opts->freq = opts->user_freq;
> --
> 2.31.0.208.g409f899ff0-goog
>

--

- Arnaldo

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