tree f8a2e34dc16a8e79e87b4c3fbe420c2346343cf1
parent d6dc0b4ead6e8720096ecfa3d9e899b47ddbc8ed
author Zhang, Yanmin <yanmin_zhang@linux.intel.com> 1268922963 -0300
committer Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> 1268925671 +0100

perf stat: Enable counters when collecting process-wide or system-wide data

Command 'perf stat' doesn't enable counters when collecting an
existing (by -p) process or system-wide statistics. Fix the
issue.

Change the condition of fork/exec subcommand. If there is a
subcommand parameter, perf always forks/execs it. The usage
example is:

 # perf stat -a sleep 10

So this command could collect statistics for 10 seconds
precisely. User still could stop it by CTRL+C. Without the new
capability, user could only use CTRL+C to stop it without
precise time clock.

Another issue is 'perf stat -a' consumes 100% time of a full
single logical cpu. It has a bad impact on running workload.

Fix it by adding a sleep(1) in the while(!done) loop in function
run_perf_stat.

Signed-off-by: Zhang Yanmin <yanmin_zhang@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Sheng Yang <sheng@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Cc: Joerg Roedel <joro@8bytes.org>
Cc: Jes Sorensen <Jes.Sorensen@redhat.com>
Cc: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Cc: Zachary Amsden <zamsden@redhat.com>
Cc: <zhiteng.huang@intel.com>
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Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>