Enable perf trace to use perf.data when it is not owned by current user
or root.
Example:
# perf trace record ls
# chown Yunlong.Song:Yunlong.Song perf.data
# ls -al perf.data
-rw------- 1 Yunlong.Song Yunlong.Song 4153101 Apr 2 15:28 perf.data
# id
uid=0(root) gid=0(root) groups=0(root),64(pkcs11)
Before this patch:
# perf trace -i perf.data
File perf.data not owned by current user or root (use -f to override)
# perf trace -i perf.data -f
Error: unknown switch `f'
usage: perf trace [<options>] [<command>]
or: perf trace [<options>] -- <command> [<options>]
or: perf trace record [<options>] [<command>]
or: perf trace record [<options>] -- <command> [<options>]
--event <event> event selector. use 'perf list' to list
available events
--comm show the thread COMM next to its id
--tool_stats show tool stats
-e, --expr <expr> list of events to trace
-o, --output <file> output file name
-i, --input <file> Analyze events in file
-p, --pid <pid> trace events on existing process id
-t, --tid <tid> trace events on existing thread id
--filter-pids <float>
...
As shown above, the -f option does not work at all.
After this patch:
# perf trace -i perf.data
File perf.data not owned by current user or root (use -f to override)
# perf trace -i perf.data -f
0.056 ( 0.002 ms): ls/47325 brk( ...
0.108 ( 0.018 ms): ls/47325 mmap(len: 4096, prot: READ|WRITE, ...
0.145 ( 0.013 ms): ls/47325 access(filename: 0x7f31259a0eb0, ...
0.172 ( 0.008 ms): ls/47325 open(filename: 0x7fffeb9a0d00, ...
0.180 ( 0.004 ms): ls/47325 stat(filename: 0x7fffeb9a0d00, ...
0.185 ( 0.004 ms): ls/47325 open(filename: 0x7fffeb9a0d00, ...
0.189 ( 0.003 ms): ls/47325 stat(filename: 0x7fffeb9a0d00, ...
0.195 ( 0.004 ms): ls/47325 open(filename: 0x7fffeb9a0d00, ...
0.199 ( 0.002 ms): ls/47325 stat(filename: 0x7fffeb9a0d00, ...
0.205 ( 0.004 ms): ls/47325 open(filename: 0x7fffeb9a0d00, ...
0.211 ( 0.004 ms): ls/47325 stat(filename: 0x7fffeb9a0d00, ...
0.220 ( 0.007 ms): ls/47325 open(filename: 0x7f312599e8ff, ...
...
...
As shown above, the -f option really works now.
Signed-off-by: Yunlong Song <yunlong.song@huawei.com>
Tested-by: Arnaldo 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/1427982439-27388-10-git-send-email-yunlong.song@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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