We don't need O_NONBLOCK flag on perf event file descriptors.

Aside the fact that file descriptors in evlist::pollfd are
never used in read syscall (write syscall is not supported),
the kernel perf read syscall path could never block anyway.

Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hun...@intel.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <a...@redhat.com>
Cc: Corey Ashford <cjash...@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: David Ahern <dsah...@gmail.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweis...@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mi...@kernel.org>
Cc: Milian Wolff <m...@milianw.de>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhy...@kernel.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <pau...@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijls...@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jo...@kernel.org>
---
 tools/perf/util/evlist.c | 5 +----
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tools/perf/util/evlist.c b/tools/perf/util/evlist.c
index 3cebc9a8d52e..0fbc5f082308 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/evlist.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/evlist.c
@@ -434,12 +434,9 @@ static int __perf_evlist__add_pollfd(struct perf_evlist 
*evlist, int fd, int idx
         * Save the idx so that when we filter out fds POLLHUP'ed we can
         * close the associated evlist->mmap[] entry.
         */
-       if (pos >= 0) {
+       if (pos >= 0)
                evlist->pollfd.priv[pos].idx = idx;
 
-               fcntl(fd, F_SETFL, O_NONBLOCK);
-       }
-
        return pos;
 }
 
-- 
1.9.3

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