linux-kernel - Re: How about limiting refresh ioctl to sampling events ?

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Date:	Wed, 24 Nov 2010 11:19:08 +0100
From:	Francis Moreau <francis.moro@...il.com>
To:	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>
Cc:	Franck Bui-Huu <vagabon.xyz@...il.com>,
	lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: How about limiting refresh ioctl to sampling events ?

Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl> writes:

[...]

>> I'm also wondering if you would accept a second patch which will
>> introduce:
>> 
>> static inline bool is_sampling_event(struct perf_event *event)
>> {
>>         return event->attr.sample_period != 0;
>> }
>> 
>> That would make the code slighlty easier to read IMHO.
>> 
>
> Sure, Francis might want that too, he found another something like this.

Yes there's another issue when counting events are used: they call
perf_event_output() when 'period_left' gets 0 where as they should not.

-- 
Francis
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