diff --git a/[refs] b/[refs]
index 0c7ea6989f70..44b1322061b3 100644
--- a/[refs]
+++ b/[refs]
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 ---
-refs/heads/master: 22a4f650d686eeaac3629dae1c4294381485efdf
+refs/heads/master: 229c4eedcedcdadf70411120ba34bc37554a74bd
diff --git a/trunk/Documentation/perf_counter/builtin-record.c b/trunk/Documentation/perf_counter/builtin-record.c
index 23d1224ce98c..96bfb7c5f1e4 100644
--- a/trunk/Documentation/perf_counter/builtin-record.c
+++ b/trunk/Documentation/perf_counter/builtin-record.c
@@ -340,7 +340,7 @@ static int __cmd_record(int argc, const char **argv)
 	assert(nr_cpus <= MAX_NR_CPUS);
 	assert(nr_cpus >= 0);
 
-	output = open(output_name, O_CREAT|O_RDWR, S_IRWXU);
+	output = open(output_name, O_CREAT|O_EXCL|O_RDWR, S_IRWXU);
 	if (output < 0) {
 		perror("failed to create output file");
 		exit(-1);