[PATCH] perf record: Disallow -c and -F option at the same time

From: Namhyung Kim
Date: Fri Apr 02 2021 - 05:40:28 EST


It's confusing which one is effective when the both options are given.
The current code happens to use -c in this case but users might not be
aware of it. We can change it to complain about that instead of
relying on the implicit priority.

Before:
$ perf record -c 111111 -F 99 true
[ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ]
[ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.031 MB perf.data (8 samples) ]

$ perf evlist -F
cycles: sample_period=111111

After:
$ perf record -c 111111 -F 99 true
cannot set frequency and period at the same time

So this change can break existing usages, but I think it's rare to
have both options and it'd be better changing them.

Suggested-by: Alexey Alexandrov <aalexand@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
tools/perf/util/record.c | 8 +++++++-
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/tools/perf/util/record.c b/tools/perf/util/record.c
index f99852d54b14..43e5b563dee8 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/record.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/record.c
@@ -157,9 +157,15 @@ static int get_max_rate(unsigned int *rate)
static int record_opts__config_freq(struct record_opts *opts)
{
bool user_freq = opts->user_freq != UINT_MAX;
+ bool user_interval = opts->user_interval != ULLONG_MAX;
unsigned int max_rate;

- if (opts->user_interval != ULLONG_MAX)
+ if (user_interval && user_freq) {
+ pr_err("cannot set frequency and period at the same time\n");
+ return -1;
+ }
+
+ if (user_interval)
opts->default_interval = opts->user_interval;
if (user_freq)
opts->freq = opts->user_freq;
--
2.31.0.208.g409f899ff0-goog