linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH 1/2] perf: Enable group siblings on exec if attr::enable_on

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Date:	Wed, 10 Nov 2010 22:49:03 +0800
From:	Lin Ming <ming.m.lin@...el.com>
To:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, Matt Fleming <matt@...sole-pimps.org>,
	"Zhang, Rui" <rui.zhang@...el.com>,
	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>,
	lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 1/2] perf: Enable group siblings on exec if
 attr::enable_on_exec set

On Wed, 2010-11-10 at 22:38 +0800, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Wed, 2010-11-10 at 22:17 +0800, Lin Ming wrote:
> > On Wed, 2010-11-10 at 20:19 +0800, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > > On Wed, 2010-11-10 at 14:15 +0800, Lin Ming wrote:
> > > > Currently, only group leader is enabled on exec.
> > > 
> > > That's enough, right? If all sibling events are already enabled enabling
> > > the group leader makes the whole thing go.
> > 
> > No.
> > 
> > If the event group is disabled by default("perf stat" case) and will be
> > enabled at next exec, then actually only the group leader will be
> > enabled , because all siblings are explicitly disabled(->state ==
> > PERF_EVENT_STATE_OFF). So the siblings will never be enabled.
> 
> Right, so what I was saying is, don't disable all the siblings by
> default, so that only the group leader will be disabled. In that case
> nothing will get scheduled because the group leader is not enabled.
> 
> So: {disabled, enabled, enabled} will not actually get scheduled and the
> group as a whole is effectively disabled. Once the enabled_on_exec flips
> the group leader to 'enabled' the whole group becomes enabled.
> 
> I don't mind the patch too much (although I would like to avoid that
> double sibling iteration in both group_enable_on_exec() and
> __perf_event_mark_enabled()), but I think it can already work as is.

I got it now!

Another stupid patch, sorry.


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