perf tools: Add perf_event_paranoid()

Add a function to return the value of
/proc/sys/kernel/perf_event_paranoid.

This will be used to determine default values for mmap size because perf
is not subject to mmap limits when perf_event_paranoid is less than
zero.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1386765443-26966-12-git-send-email-alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

1 files changed, 19 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/tools/perf/util/util.c b/tools/perf/util/util.c
index 4a57609c0b43..8f63dba212d7 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/util.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/util.c
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 #include "../perf.h"
 #include "util.h"
+#include "fs.h"
 #include <sys/mman.h>
 #ifdef HAVE_BACKTRACE_SUPPORT
 #include <execinfo.h>
@@ -8,6 +9,7 @@
 #include <stdlib.h>
 #include <string.h>
 #include <errno.h>
+#include <limits.h>
 #include <linux/kernel.h>
 
 /*
@@ -496,3 +498,20 @@ const char *get_filename_for_perf_kvm(void)
 
 	return filename;
 }
+
+int perf_event_paranoid(void)
+{
+	char path[PATH_MAX];
+	const char *procfs = procfs__mountpoint();
+	int value;
+
+	if (!procfs)
+		return INT_MAX;
+
+	scnprintf(path, PATH_MAX, "%s/sys/kernel/perf_event_paranoid", procfs);
+
+	if (filename__read_int(path, &value))
+		return INT_MAX;
+
+	return value;
+}