Re: [PATCH 1/5] Add ID and STREAM_ID to recorded event data

From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Tue Mar 02 2010 - 09:58:34 EST


On Tue, 2010-03-02 at 14:42 +0000, Eric B Munson wrote:
> Currently perf record does not write the ID or the STREAM_ID to disk
> for events. This doesn't allow report to tell if an event stream contains
> one or more types of events. This patch adds these two entries to the list
> of data that record will write to disk.
>
> Signed-off-by: Eric B Munson <ebmunson@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> tools/perf/builtin-record.c | 3 ++-
> 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-record.c b/tools/perf/builtin-record.c
> index 771533c..35e4605 100644
> --- a/tools/perf/builtin-record.c
> +++ b/tools/perf/builtin-record.c
> @@ -242,7 +242,8 @@ static void create_counter(int counter, int cpu, pid_t pid)
> PERF_FORMAT_TOTAL_TIME_RUNNING |
> PERF_FORMAT_ID;
>
> - attr->sample_type |= PERF_SAMPLE_IP | PERF_SAMPLE_TID;
> + attr->sample_type |= PERF_SAMPLE_IP | PERF_SAMPLE_TID |
> + PERF_SAMPLE_ID | PERF_SAMPLE_STREAM_ID;
>
> if (freq) {
> attr->sample_type |= PERF_SAMPLE_PERIOD;

can we make this conditional on there being more than one event, that
saves a little space/time when recording

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