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Message-ID: <tip-3banj3yh0sjz41obxtgiel3a@git.kernel.org>
Date:	Wed, 17 Dec 2014 22:28:58 -0800
From:	tip-bot for Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <tipbot@...or.com>
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Subject: [tip:perf/urgent] perf trace:
  Let the perf_evlist__mmap autosize the number of pages to use

Commit-ID:  38d5447d64f367d1f4804ed5c7048d39de4d3311
Gitweb:     http://git.kernel.org/tip/38d5447d64f367d1f4804ed5c7048d39de4d3311
Author:     Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...hat.com>
AuthorDate: Fri, 12 Dec 2014 17:28:32 -0300
Committer:  Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...hat.com>
CommitDate: Tue, 16 Dec 2014 13:38:26 -0300

perf trace: Let the perf_evlist__mmap autosize the number of pages to use

So that normal users can run 'trace', we were using a hardcoded 1024
pages value that was more than the default /proc/sys/kernel/perf_event_mlock_kb
setting.

Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@...el.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@...e.de>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@...il.com>
Cc: Don Zickus <dzickus@...hat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...hat.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@....de>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@...nel.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@...gle.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-3banj3yh0sjz41obxtgiel3a@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...hat.com>
---
 tools/perf/builtin-trace.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-trace.c b/tools/perf/builtin-trace.c
index 327541e..badfabc 100644
--- a/tools/perf/builtin-trace.c
+++ b/tools/perf/builtin-trace.c
@@ -2485,7 +2485,7 @@ int cmd_trace(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix __maybe_unused)
 			.user_freq     = UINT_MAX,
 			.user_interval = ULLONG_MAX,
 			.no_buffering  = true,
-			.mmap_pages    = 1024,
+			.mmap_pages    = UINT_MAX,
 		},
 		.output = stdout,
 		.show_comm = true,
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