Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 58b32c1b53 perf python: Make twatch.py use soft dummy event, freq=0 ...

To not sample, what we want are just the PERF_RECORD_ lifetime events
for threads, using the default, PERF_TYPE_HARDWARE +
PERF_COUNT_HW_CYCLES and freq=1 (the default), makes perf reenable
irq_vectors:local_timer_entry, disabling nohz, not good for some use
cases where all we want is to get notifications when threads comes and
goes...

Fix it by using PERF_TYPE_SOFTWARE (no counter rotation) and
PERF_COUNT_SW_DUMMY (created by Adrian so that we could have access to
those PERF_RECORD_ goodies).

Reported-by: Luiz Fernando Capitulino <[email protected]>
Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <[email protected]>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <[email protected]>
Cc: David Ahern <[email protected]>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <[email protected]>
Cc: Jaroslav Skarvada <[email protected]>
Cc: Jeremy Eder <[email protected]>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <[email protected]>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <[email protected]>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <[email protected]>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>

2015-07-29 10:51:45 -03:00

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twatch.py

perf python: Make twatch.py use soft dummy event, freq=0

2015-07-29 10:51:45 -03:00