From 8cc5ec1f754355ed788838390e86389c9ffb7590 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Yunlong Song Date: Thu, 2 Apr 2015 21:47:13 +0800 Subject: perf kvm: Support using -f to override perf.data.guest file ownership Enable perf kvm to use perf.data.guest when it is not owned by current user or root. Example: # perf kvm stat record ls # chown Yunlong.Song:Yunlong.Song perf.data.guest # ls -al perf.data.guest -rw------- 1 Yunlong.Song Yunlong.Song 4128937 Apr 2 11:05 perf.data.guest # id uid=0(root) gid=0(root) groups=0(root),64(pkcs11) Before this patch: # perf kvm stat report File perf.data.guest not owned by current user or root (use -f to override) Initializing perf session failed # perf kvm stat report -f Error: unknown switch `f' usage: perf kvm stat report [] --event event for reporting: vmexit, mmio (x86 only), ioport (x86 only) --vcpu vcpu id to report -k, --key key for sorting: sample(sort by samples number) time (sort by avg time) -p, --pid analyze events only for given process id(s) As shown above, the -f option does not work at all. After this patch: # perf kvm stat report File perf.data.guest not owned by current user or root (use -f to override) Initializing perf session failed # perf kvm stat report -f Analyze events for all VMs, all VCPUs: VM-EXIT Samples Samples% Time% Min Time Max Time Avg time Total Samples:0, Total events handled time:0.00us. As shown above, the -f option really works now. Since we have not launched any KVM related process, the result shows 0 sample here. Signed-off-by: Yunlong Song Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Wang Nan Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1427982439-27388-5-git-send-email-yunlong.song@huawei.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo --- tools/perf/builtin-kvm.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) (limited to 'tools/perf/builtin-kvm.c') diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-kvm.c b/tools/perf/builtin-kvm.c index 643722f40075..1f9338f6109c 100644 --- a/tools/perf/builtin-kvm.c +++ b/tools/perf/builtin-kvm.c @@ -1047,6 +1047,7 @@ static int read_events(struct perf_kvm_stat *kvm) struct perf_data_file file = { .path = kvm->file_name, .mode = PERF_DATA_MODE_READ, + .force = kvm->force, }; kvm->tool = eops; @@ -1204,6 +1205,7 @@ kvm_events_report(struct perf_kvm_stat *kvm, int argc, const char **argv) " time (sort by avg time)"), OPT_STRING('p', "pid", &kvm->opts.target.pid, "pid", "analyze events only for given process id(s)"), + OPT_BOOLEAN('f', "force", &kvm->force, "don't complain, do it"), OPT_END() }; -- cgit v1.2.3