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SubjectRe: [PATCH v2] perf: disable PERF_RECORD_MMAP2 support
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On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 5:54 PM, David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 10/17/13 8:28 AM, Stephane Eranian wrote:
>>
>>
>> For now, we disable the extended MMAP record support (MMAP2).
>> We have identified cases where it would not report the correct
>> mapping information, clone(VM_CLONE) but with separate pids.
>> We will revisit the support once we find a solution for this case.
>>
>> The patch changes the kernel to return EINVAL if attr->mmap2
>> is set. The patch also modifies the perf tool to use regular
>> PERF_RECORD_MMAP
>> for synthetic events and it also prevents the tool from requesting
>> attr->mmap2
>> mode because the kernel would reject it.
>>
>> The support will be revisited once the kenrel interface is updated.
>
>
> Why not disable mmap2 as well:
>
> diff --git a/tools/perf/util/evsel.c b/tools/perf/util/evsel.c
> index 0ce9febf1ba0..289f34dbe970 100644
> --- a/tools/perf/util/evsel.c
> +++ b/tools/perf/util/evsel.c
> @@ -678,7 +678,7 @@ void perf_evsel__config(struct perf_evsel *evsel,
> attr->sample_type |= PERF_SAMPLE_WEIGHT;
>
> attr->mmap = track;
> - attr->mmap2 = track && !perf_missing_features.mmap2;
> + /* attr->mmap2 = track && !perf_missing_features.mmap2; */
> attr->comm = track;
>
It is disabled automatically later on. I checked that. Wanted to minimize
the changes.


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