perf record: Prevent override of attr->sample_period for libpfm4 events

Before:

  $ perf record -c 10000 --pfm-events=cycles:period=77777

Would yield a cycles event with period=10000, instead of 77777.

the event string and perf record initializing the event.
This was due to an ordering issue between libpfm4 parsing

events with attr->sample_period != 0 by the time
intent of the author.
perf_evsel__config() is invoked. This seems to have been the
This patch fixes the problem by preventing override for

Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Ian Rogers <[email protected]>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <[email protected]>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <[email protected]>
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <[email protected]>
Cc: Andi Kleen <[email protected]>
Cc: Andrii Nakryiko <[email protected]>
Cc: Athira Jajeev <[email protected]>
Cc: Daniel Borkmann <[email protected]>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <[email protected]>
Cc: John Fastabend <[email protected]>
Cc: KP Singh <[email protected]>
Cc: Mark Rutland <[email protected]>
Cc: Martin KaFai Lau <[email protected]>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: Song Liu <[email protected]>
Cc: Yonghong Song <[email protected]>
Link: http://lore.kernel.org/lkml/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>

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