[PATCH 8/9] perf sched replay: Support using -f to override perf.data file ownership

[Yunlong Song]

Enable to use perf.data when it is not owned by current user or root.

Example:

 $ ls -al perf.data
 -rw------- 1 Yunlong.Song Yunlong.Song 5321918 Mar 25 15:14 perf.data
 $ sudo id
 uid=0(root) gid=0(root) groups=0(root),64(pkcs11)

Before this patch:

 $ sudo perf sched replay -f
 run measurement overhead: 98 nsecs
 sleep measurement overhead: 52909 nsecs
 the run test took 1000015 nsecs
 the sleep test took 1054253 nsecs
 File perf.data not owned by current user or root (use -f to override)

As shown above, the -f option does not work at all.

After this patch:

 $ sudo perf sched replay -f
 run measurement overhead: 221 nsecs
 sleep measurement overhead: 40514 nsecs
 the run test took 1000003 nsecs
 the sleep test took 1056098 nsecs
 nr_run_events:        10
 nr_sleep_events:      1562
 nr_wakeup_events:     5
 task      0 (                  :1:         1), nr_events: 1
 task      1 (                  :2:         2), nr_events: 1
 task      2 (                  :3:         3), nr_events: 1
 ...
 ...
 task   1549 (             :163132:    163132), nr_events: 1
 task   1550 (             :163540:    163540), nr_events: 1
 task   1551 (           <unknown>:         0), nr_events: 10
 ------------------------------------------------------------
 #1  : 50.198, ravg: 50.20, cpu: 2335.18 / 2335.18
 #2  : 219.099, ravg: 67.09, cpu: 2835.11 / 2385.17
 #3  : 238.626, ravg: 84.24, cpu: 3278.26 / 2474.48
 #4  : 200.364, ravg: 95.85, cpu: 2977.41 / 2524.77
 #5  : 176.882, ravg: 103.96, cpu: 2801.35 / 2552.43
 #6  : 191.093, ravg: 112.67, cpu: 2813.70 / 2578.56
 #7  : 189.448, ravg: 120.35, cpu: 2809.21 / 2601.62
 #8  : 200.637, ravg: 128.38, cpu: 2849.91 / 2626.45
 #9  : 248.338, ravg: 140.37, cpu: 4380.61 / 2801.87
 #10 : 511.139, ravg: 177.45, cpu: 3077.73 / 2829.45

As shown above, the -f option really works now.

Besides for replay, -f option can also work for latency and map.

Signed-off-by: Yunlong Song <yunlong.song@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
 tools/perf/builtin-sched.c | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-sched.c b/tools/perf/builtin-sched.c
index 5ab58c6..7b7b798 100644
--- a/tools/perf/builtin-sched.c
+++ b/tools/perf/builtin-sched.c
@@ -1487,6 +1487,7 @@ static int perf_sched__read_events(struct perf_sched *sched)
 	struct perf_data_file file = {
 		.path = input_name,
 		.mode = PERF_DATA_MODE_READ,
+		.force = sched->force,
 	};
 	int rc = -1;
 
-- 
1.8.5.2

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