linux/tools
Yunlong Song 9e3b6ec173 perf evlist: Support using -f to override perf.data file ownership
Enable perf evlist to use perf.data when it is not owned by current user
or root.

Example:

 # perf record ls
 # chown Yunlong.Song:Yunlong.Song perf.data
 # ls -al perf.data
 -rw------- 1 Yunlong.Song Yunlong.Song 28260 Apr  2 10:18 perf.data
 # id
 uid=0(root) gid=0(root) groups=0(root),64(pkcs11)

Before this patch:

 # perf evlist
 File perf.data not owned by current user or root (use -f to override)
 # perf evlist -f
   Error: unknown switch `f'

  usage: perf evlist [<options>]

     -i, --input <file>    Input file name
     -F, --freq            Show the sample frequency
     -v, --verbose         Show all event attr details
     -g, --group           Show event group information

As shown above, the -f option does not work at all.

After this patch:

 # perf evlist
 File perf.data not owned by current user or root (use -f to override)
 # perf evlist -f
 cycles

As shown above, the -f option really works now.

Signed-off-by: Yunlong Song <yunlong.song@huawei.com>
Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1427982439-27388-2-git-send-email-yunlong.song@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2015-04-02 13:18:45 -03:00
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build tools build: Add feature check for lzma library 2015-03-21 14:53:39 -03:00
cgroup
firewire
hv Tools: hv: do not add redundant '/' in hv_start_fcopy() 2015-01-25 09:17:57 -08:00
include tools: Remove bitops/hweight usage of bits in tools/perf 2015-01-16 17:49:29 -03:00
lguest tools/lguest: don't use legacy definitions for net device in example launcher. 2015-02-13 17:15:55 +10:30
lib tools lib traceevent: Zero should not be considered "not found" in eval_flag() 2015-03-26 10:52:29 -03:00
net
nfsd
perf perf evlist: Support using -f to override perf.data file ownership 2015-04-02 13:18:45 -03:00
power Revert "cpupower Makefile change to help run the tool without 'make install'" 2015-03-11 21:56:49 +01:00
scripts
testing selftests: Fix build failures when invoked from kselftest target 2015-03-19 09:54:55 -06:00
thermal/tmon tools/thermal: tmon: silence 'set but not used' warnings 2015-02-28 13:52:48 +08:00
time tools: add script to test udelay 2014-07-23 10:16:38 -07:00
usb tools: ffs-aio-example: use endpoint addresses from descriptors 2015-01-15 09:41:49 -06:00
virtio tools/virtio: add virtio 1.0 in vringh_test 2014-12-15 23:49:22 +02:00
vm mm:add KPF_ZERO_PAGE flag for /proc/kpageflags 2015-02-11 17:06:00 -08:00
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