perf top: Remove lost events checking

There would be some records lost in overwrite mode because of pausing
the ringbuffer. It has little impact for the accuracy of the snapshot
and could be tolerated by 'perf top'.

Remove the lost events checking.

Signed-off-by: Kan Liang <kan.liang@intel.com>
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Jin Yao <yao.jin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1516310792-208685-16-git-send-email-kan.liang@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-top.c b/tools/perf/builtin-top.c
index 7def861a9ec41e5729e1f7de56b6337c90ab6015..59653062bb48ae2289cd58436dbe914cdbb62c8a 100644 (file)
--- a/tools/perf/builtin-top.c
+++ b/tools/perf/builtin-top.c
@@ -283,8 +283,9 @@ static void perf_top__print_sym_table(struct perf_top *top)
 
        printf("%-*.*s\n", win_width, win_width, graph_dotted_line);
 
-       if (hists->stats.nr_lost_warned !=
-           hists->stats.nr_events[PERF_RECORD_LOST]) {
+       if (!top->record_opts.overwrite &&
+           (hists->stats.nr_lost_warned !=
+           hists->stats.nr_events[PERF_RECORD_LOST])) {
                hists->stats.nr_lost_warned =
                              hists->stats.nr_events[PERF_RECORD_LOST];
                color_fprintf(stdout, PERF_COLOR_RED,
@@ -611,7 +612,8 @@ static void *display_thread_tui(void *arg)
 
        perf_evlist__tui_browse_hists(top->evlist, help, &hbt,
                                      top->min_percent,
-                                     &top->session->header.env, true);
+                                     &top->session->header.env,
+                                     !top->record_opts.overwrite);
 
        done = 1;
        return NULL;