[RFC PATCH 4/7] tools, perf: Allow the user to disable time stamps

[Yan, Zheng]

From: Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Time stamps are always implicitely enabled for record currently.
The old --time/-T option is a nop.

Allow the user to disable timestamps by using --no-time

This can cause some minor misaccounting (by missing mmaps), but significantly
lowers the size of perf.data

The defaults are unchanged.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
 tools/perf/builtin-record.c | 1 +
 tools/perf/util/evsel.c     | 9 ++++++---
 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-record.c b/tools/perf/builtin-record.c
index e4c85b8..1c8849f 100644
--- a/tools/perf/builtin-record.c
+++ b/tools/perf/builtin-record.c
@@ -771,6 +771,7 @@ static const char * const record_usage[] = {
  */
 static struct record record = {
 	.opts = {
+		.sample_time	     = true,
 		.mmap_pages	     = UINT_MAX,
 		.user_freq	     = UINT_MAX,
 		.user_interval	     = ULLONG_MAX,
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/evsel.c b/tools/perf/util/evsel.c
index 5c28d82..d6e7865 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/evsel.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/evsel.c
@@ -632,9 +632,12 @@ void perf_evsel__config(struct perf_evsel *evsel, struct record_opts *opts)
 	if (opts->period)
 		perf_evsel__set_sample_bit(evsel, PERIOD);
 
-	if (!perf_missing_features.sample_id_all &&
-	    (opts->sample_time || !opts->no_inherit ||
-	     target__has_cpu(&opts->target) || per_cpu))
+	/*
+	 * When the user explicitely disabled time don't force it here.
+	 */
+	if (opts->sample_time &&
+	    (!perf_missing_features.sample_id_all &&
+	    (!opts->no_inherit || target__has_cpu(&opts->target) || per_cpu)))
 		perf_evsel__set_sample_bit(evsel, TIME);
 
 	if (opts->raw_samples) {
-- 
1.9.0

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