Re: [PATCH] perf: change event inheritance logic in stat and record

[Frederic Weisbecker]

On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 10:40:01AM +0200, Stephane Eranian wrote:
>   By default, event inheritance across fork and pthread_create was
>   on but the -i option of stat and record, which enabled inheritance,
>   led to believe it was off by default.
> 
>   This patch fixes this logic by inverting the meaning of the -i option.
>   By default inheritance is on whether you attach to a process (-p), a
>   thread (-t) or start a process. If you pass -i, then you turn off
>   inheritance. Turning off inheritance if you don't need it, helps
>   limit perf resource usage as well.
> 
>   The patch also fixes perf stat -t xxxx and perf record -t xxxx
>   which did not start the counters.
> 
>   Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@xxxxxxxxxx>


Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@xxxxxxxxx>

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