perf record: Prevent override of attr->sample_period for libpfm4 events

Before:

  $ perf record -c 10000 --pfm-events=cycles:period=77777

Would yield a cycles event with period=10000, instead of 77777.

the event string and perf record initializing the event.
This was due to an ordering issue between libpfm4 parsing

events with attr->sample_period != 0 by the time
intent of the author.
perf_evsel__config() is invoked. This seems to have been the
This patch fixes the problem by preventing override for

Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Andrii Nakryiko <andriin@fb.com>
Cc: Athira Jajeev <atrajeev@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: John Fastabend <john.fastabend@gmail.com>
Cc: KP Singh <kpsingh@chromium.org>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Martin KaFai Lau <kafai@fb.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Song Liu <songliubraving@fb.com>
Cc: Yonghong Song <yhs@fb.com>
Link: http://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200912025655.1337192-3-irogers@google.com
Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

diff --git a/tools/perf/util/evsel.c b/tools/perf/util/evsel.c
index 3e98501..459b51e 100644 (file)
--- a/tools/perf/util/evsel.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/evsel.c
@@ -976,8 +976,7 @@ void evsel__config(struct evsel *evsel, struct record_opts *opts,
         * We default some events to have a default interval. But keep
         * it a weak assumption overridable by the user.
         */
-       if (!attr->sample_period || (opts->user_freq != UINT_MAX ||
-                                    opts->user_interval != ULLONG_MAX)) {
+       if (!attr->sample_period) {
                if (opts->freq) {
                        attr->freq              = 1;
                        attr->sample_freq       = opts->freq;