From 03724b2e9c45d931eff0f304f2d3363ade65ca89 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Andi Kleen Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2019 15:49:55 -0700 Subject: perf record: Allow to limit number of reported perf.data files When doing long term recording and waiting for some event to snapshot on, we often only care about the last minute or so. The --switch-output command line option supports rotating the perf.data file when the size exceeds a threshold. But the disk would still be filled with unnecessary old files. Add a new option to only keep a number of rotated files, so that the disk space usage can be limited. Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen Acked-by: Jiri Olsa LPU-Reference: 20190314225002.30108-3-andi@firstfloor.org Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-y5u2lik0ragt4vlktz6qc9ks@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo --- tools/perf/util/data.c | 11 +++++------ tools/perf/util/data.h | 2 +- 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) (limited to 'tools/perf/util') diff --git a/tools/perf/util/data.c b/tools/perf/util/data.c index c6b67efea11a..6a64f713710d 100644 --- a/tools/perf/util/data.c +++ b/tools/perf/util/data.c @@ -361,9 +361,9 @@ ssize_t perf_data__write(struct perf_data *data, int perf_data__switch(struct perf_data *data, const char *postfix, - size_t pos, bool at_exit) + size_t pos, bool at_exit, + char **new_filepath) { - char *new_filepath; int ret; if (check_pipe(data)) @@ -371,15 +371,15 @@ int perf_data__switch(struct perf_data *data, if (perf_data__is_read(data)) return -EINVAL; - if (asprintf(&new_filepath, "%s.%s", data->path, postfix) < 0) + if (asprintf(new_filepath, "%s.%s", data->path, postfix) < 0) return -ENOMEM; /* * Only fire a warning, don't return error, continue fill * original file. */ - if (rename(data->path, new_filepath)) - pr_warning("Failed to rename %s to %s\n", data->path, new_filepath); + if (rename(data->path, *new_filepath)) + pr_warning("Failed to rename %s to %s\n", data->path, *new_filepath); if (!at_exit) { close(data->file.fd); @@ -396,7 +396,6 @@ int perf_data__switch(struct perf_data *data, } ret = data->file.fd; out: - free(new_filepath); return ret; } diff --git a/tools/perf/util/data.h b/tools/perf/util/data.h index 6aef8746469f..259868a39019 100644 --- a/tools/perf/util/data.h +++ b/tools/perf/util/data.h @@ -70,7 +70,7 @@ ssize_t perf_data_file__write(struct perf_data_file *file, */ int perf_data__switch(struct perf_data *data, const char *postfix, - size_t pos, bool at_exit); + size_t pos, bool at_exit, char **new_filepath); int perf_data__create_dir(struct perf_data *data, int nr); int perf_data__open_dir(struct perf_data *data); -- cgit v1.2.3