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authorDavid Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>2012-05-08 10:50:11 -0600
committerArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>2012-05-09 12:02:10 -0300
commitd1cae34d6fda59391e1b06ac1642ef4a740ba3ef (patch)
treef1f518a8769cd55cfa0750dd7aced93148c4b5c1 /tools/perf
parentperf top: Update event name when falling back to cpu-clock (diff)
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perf record: Reset event name when falling back to cpu-clock
perf-record defaults to the H/W cycles event and if it is not supported falls back to cpu-clock. Reset the event name as well. Signed-off-by: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1336495811-58461-1-git-send-email-dsahern@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'tools/perf')
-rw-r--r--tools/perf/builtin-record.c4
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-record.c b/tools/perf/builtin-record.c
index 1a9098c697b4..d19058a7b84c 100644
--- a/tools/perf/builtin-record.c
+++ b/tools/perf/builtin-record.c
@@ -256,6 +256,10 @@ try_again:
"trying to fall back to cpu-clock-ticks\n");
attr->type = PERF_TYPE_SOFTWARE;
attr->config = PERF_COUNT_SW_CPU_CLOCK;
+ if (pos->name) {
+ free(pos->name);
+ pos->name = NULL;
+ }
goto try_again;
}