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perf trace: Let the perf_evlist__mmap autosize the number of pages to use

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Commit-ID:  38d5447d64f367d1f4804ed5c7048d39de4d3311
Gitweb:     http://git.kernel.org/tip/38d5447d64f367d1f4804ed5c7048d39de4d3311
Author:     Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
AuthorDate: Fri, 12 Dec 2014 17:28:32 -0300
Committer:  Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
CommitDate: Tue, 16 Dec 2014 13:38:26 -0300

perf trace: Let the perf_evlist__mmap autosize the number of pages to use

So that normal users can run 'trace', we were using a hardcoded 1024 pages value that was more than the default /proc/sys/kernel/perf_event_mlock_kb setting.

Cc Adrian Hunter <[email protected]>
Cc Borislav Petkov <[email protected]>
Cc David Ahern <[email protected]>
Cc Don Zickus <[email protected]>
Cc Frederic Weisbecker <[email protected]>
Cc Jiri Olsa <[email protected]>
Cc Mike Galbraith <[email protected]>
Cc Namhyung Kim <[email protected]>
Cc Paul Mackerras <[email protected]>
Cc Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc Stephane Eranian <[email protected]>
---
 tools/perf/builtin-trace.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
tools/perf/builtin-trace.c +1 -1
index 327541e..badfabc 100644
@@ -2485,7 +2485,7 @@ int cmd_trace(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix __maybe_unused)
 			.user_freq     = UINT_MAX,
 			.user_interval = ULLONG_MAX,
 			.no_buffering  = true,
-			.mmap_pages    = 1024,
+			.mmap_pages    = UINT_MAX,
 		},
 		.output = stdout,
 		.show_comm = true,