From e9d6db8e8df42a38f79f264ab58c104e1678b12c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jiri Olsa Date: Thu, 5 Nov 2015 15:40:53 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] perf stat record: Do not allow record with multiple runs mode We currently don't support storing multiple session in perf.data, so we can't allow -r option in stat record. $ perf stat -e cycles -r 2 record ls Cannot use -r option with perf stat record. Committer note: Before this patch we would a perf.data file such as: $ perf stat -e cycles -r 2 record ls Performance counter stats for 'ls' (2 runs): 3,935,236 cycles 0.002353261 seconds time elapsed ( +- 4.76% ) $ perf report -D | grep PERF_RECORD | grep ROUND 0xf0 [0]: failed to process type: 16 Error: failed to process sample $ Reported-by: Kan Liang Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Cc: David Ahern Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: Peter Zijlstra Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1446734469-11352-10-git-send-email-jolsa@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo --- tools/perf/builtin-stat.c | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-stat.c b/tools/perf/builtin-stat.c index fcece42c2611..10f86a6d7b15 100644 --- a/tools/perf/builtin-stat.c +++ b/tools/perf/builtin-stat.c @@ -1449,6 +1449,11 @@ static int __cmd_record(int argc, const char **argv) if (output_name) file->path = output_name; + if (run_count != 1 || forever) { + pr_err("Cannot use -r option with perf stat record.\n"); + return -1; + } + session = perf_session__new(file, false, NULL); if (session == NULL) { pr_err("Perf session creation failed.\n"); -- 2.20.1