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authorArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>2017-07-10 16:08:07 -0300
committerArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>2017-07-10 16:14:48 -0300
commitd37a369790774af66a4aee61a188384d21b17a43 (patch)
tree079cbd40c16d49c2813e8afe93e811aac668c451 /tools/perf
parentdbf580623d5fee785218d1a47a2bcdf36d85c0e9 (diff)
perf evsel: Fix attr.exclude_kernel setting for default cycles:p
To allow probing the max attr.precise_ip setting for non-root users we unconditionally set attr.exclude_kernel, which makes the detection work but should be done only for !root, fix it. Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com> Fixes: 97365e81366f ("perf evsel: Set attr.exclude_kernel when probing max attr.precise_ip") Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-bl6bbxzxloonzvm4nvt7oqgj@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'tools/perf')
-rw-r--r--tools/perf/util/evsel.c2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/evsel.c b/tools/perf/util/evsel.c
index 87b431886670..f2a1876d268e 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/evsel.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/evsel.c
@@ -273,7 +273,7 @@ struct perf_evsel *perf_evsel__new_cycles(void)
struct perf_event_attr attr = {
.type = PERF_TYPE_HARDWARE,
.config = PERF_COUNT_HW_CPU_CYCLES,
- .exclude_kernel = 1,
+ .exclude_kernel = geteuid() != 0,
};
struct perf_evsel *evsel;