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-rw-r--r--tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt4
-rw-r--r--tools/perf/builtin-record.c7
-rw-r--r--tools/perf/perf.h2
-rw-r--r--tools/perf/util/record.c23
4 files changed, 34 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt
index 76bc2181d214..94f2faebc7f0 100644
--- a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt
+++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt
@@ -193,7 +193,9 @@ OPTIONS
Child tasks do not inherit counters.
-F::
--freq=::
- Profile at this frequency.
+ Profile at this frequency. Use 'max' to use the currently maximum
+ allowed frequency, i.e. the value in the kernel.perf_event_max_sample_rate
+ sysctl.
-m::
--mmap-pages=::
diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-record.c b/tools/perf/builtin-record.c
index 907267206973..e1821eea14ef 100644
--- a/tools/perf/builtin-record.c
+++ b/tools/perf/builtin-record.c
@@ -45,6 +45,7 @@
#include <errno.h>
#include <inttypes.h>
+#include <locale.h>
#include <poll.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <sched.h>
@@ -1542,7 +1543,9 @@ static struct option __record_options[] = {
OPT_BOOLEAN(0, "tail-synthesize", &record.opts.tail_synthesize,
"synthesize non-sample events at the end of output"),
OPT_BOOLEAN(0, "overwrite", &record.opts.overwrite, "use overwrite mode"),
- OPT_UINTEGER('F', "freq", &record.opts.user_freq, "profile at this frequency"),
+ OPT_CALLBACK('F', "freq", &record.opts, "freq or 'max'",
+ "profile at this frequency",
+ record__parse_freq),
OPT_CALLBACK('m', "mmap-pages", &record.opts, "pages[,pages]",
"number of mmap data pages and AUX area tracing mmap pages",
record__parse_mmap_pages),
@@ -1651,6 +1654,8 @@ int cmd_record(int argc, const char **argv)
struct record *rec = &record;
char errbuf[BUFSIZ];
+ setlocale(LC_ALL, "");
+
#ifndef HAVE_LIBBPF_SUPPORT
# define set_nobuild(s, l, c) set_option_nobuild(record_options, s, l, "NO_LIBBPF=1", c)
set_nobuild('\0', "clang-path", true);
diff --git a/tools/perf/perf.h b/tools/perf/perf.h
index cfe46236a5e5..a5df8bf73a68 100644
--- a/tools/perf/perf.h
+++ b/tools/perf/perf.h
@@ -82,4 +82,6 @@ struct record_opts {
struct option;
extern const char * const *record_usage;
extern struct option *record_options;
+
+int record__parse_freq(const struct option *opt, const char *str, int unset);
#endif
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/record.c b/tools/perf/util/record.c
index 1e97937b03a9..acabf54ceccb 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/record.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/record.c
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@
#include "parse-events.h"
#include <errno.h>
#include <api/fs/fs.h>
+#include <subcmd/parse-options.h>
#include "util.h"
#include "cloexec.h"
@@ -287,3 +288,25 @@ out_delete:
perf_evlist__delete(temp_evlist);
return ret;
}
+
+int record__parse_freq(const struct option *opt, const char *str, int unset __maybe_unused)
+{
+ unsigned int freq;
+ struct record_opts *opts = opt->value;
+
+ if (!str)
+ return -EINVAL;
+
+ if (strcasecmp(str, "max") == 0) {
+ if (get_max_rate(&freq)) {
+ pr_err("couldn't read /proc/sys/kernel/perf_event_max_sample_rate\n");
+ return -1;
+ }
+ pr_info("info: Using a maximum frequency rate of %'d Hz\n", freq);
+ } else {
+ freq = atoi(str);
+ }
+
+ opts->user_freq = freq;
+ return 0;
+}