Without this patch, the last output doesn't have timestamp appended if --timestamp-filename is not explicitly provided. For example:
# perf record -a --switch-output & [1] 11224 # kill -s SIGUSR2 11224 [ perf record: dump data: Woken up 1 times ] # [ perf record: Dump perf.data.2015122622372823 ] # fg perf record -a --switch-output ^C[ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ] [ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.027 MB perf.data (540 samples) ] # ls -l total 836 -rw------- 1 root root 33256 Dec 26 22:37 perf.data <---- *Odd* -rw------- 1 root root 817156 Dec 26 22:37 perf.data.2015122622372823 Signed-off-by: Wang Nan <wangn...@huawei.com> Signed-off-by: He Kuang <heku...@huawei.com> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <a...@redhat.com> Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hun...@intel.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jo...@kernel.org> Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu...@hitachi.com> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhy...@kernel.org> Cc: Zefan Li <lize...@huawei.com> Cc: pi3or...@163.com --- tools/perf/builtin-record.c | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-record.c b/tools/perf/builtin-record.c index ca40726..32db7a7 100644 --- a/tools/perf/builtin-record.c +++ b/tools/perf/builtin-record.c @@ -1338,6 +1338,9 @@ int cmd_record(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix __maybe_unused) return -EINVAL; } + if (rec->switch_output) + rec->timestamp_filename = true; + if (!rec->itr) { rec->itr = auxtrace_record__init(rec->evlist, &err); if (err) -- 1.8.3.4