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From: Frederic Weisbecker on 12 May 2010 11:30
On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 10:40:01AM +0200, Stephane Eranian wrote:
> By default, event inheritance across fork and pthread_create was
> on but the -i option of stat and record, which enabled inheritance,
> led to believe it was off by default.
>
> This patch fixes this logic by inverting the meaning of the -i option.
> By default inheritance is on whether you attach to a process (-p), a
> thread (-t) or start a process. If you pass -i, then you turn off
> inheritance. Turning off inheritance if you don't need it, helps
> limit perf resource usage as well.
>
> The patch also fixes perf stat -t xxxx and perf record -t xxxx
> which did not start the counters.
>
> Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian(a)google.com>


Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec(a)gmail.com>

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