[PATCH 14/19] perf tools: Make the breakpoint events sample period default to 1

From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
Date: Wed Jul 25 2012 - 13:45:22 EST


From: Jovi Zhang <bookjovi@xxxxxxxxx>

There have one problem about hw_breakpoint perf event, as watched, the
events reported to userspace is not correctly, sometime one trigger
bp_event report several events, sometime bp_event cannot go through to
user.

The root cause is attr->freq is 1 passed to kernel defaultly in bp
events, this make kernel calculate event period not as expect, make
sample period to 1 will change attr->freq to 0, to fix this problem.

This patch is similar with commit f92128 about tracepoint events:
perf: Make the trace events sample period default to 1

Signed-off-by: Jovi Zhang <bookjovi@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@xxxxxxxxx>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/CACV3sbLF8taiCq_VYW-sgRJyupeMzg58C7ZXfMe3xZUiH_Mx6w@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
tools/perf/util/parse-events.c | 1 +
1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tools/perf/util/parse-events.c b/tools/perf/util/parse-events.c
index a729945..74a5af4 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/parse-events.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/parse-events.c
@@ -490,6 +490,7 @@ int parse_events_add_breakpoint(struct list_head **list, int *idx,
attr.bp_len = HW_BREAKPOINT_LEN_4;

attr.type = PERF_TYPE_BREAKPOINT;
+ attr.sample_period = 1;

return add_event(list, idx, &attr, NULL);
}
--
1.7.1

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