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| author | David Ahern <daahern@cisco.com> | 2011-03-25 13:11:11 -0600 |
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| committer | Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> | 2011-03-29 13:40:27 -0300 |
| commit | ca6a42586fae639ff9e5285d9bdc550fcb1b8d41 (patch) | |
| tree | 0eeb89ae0aaf2654ca3dbdc8d8057b97fef69545 /tools | |
| parent | c286c419c784c238cd699be37fec7a9acc30d89f (diff) | |
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perf tools: Emit clearer message for sys_perf_event_open ENOENT return
Resend of patch sent back in January 2011 in light of recent confusion around
unsupported events for a given platform.
Improve sys_perf_event_open ENOENT return handling in top and record, just
like 5a3446b does for stat.
Retry of Arnaldo's patch using ui_warning instead of die which allows the
fallback from hardware cycles to software clock.
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
LKML-Reference: <1301080271-20945-1-git-send-email-daahern@cisco.com>
Signed-off-by: David Ahern <daahern@cisco.com>
[ committer note: Some adjustments to make it apply to newer codebase ]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'tools')
| -rw-r--r-- | tools/perf/builtin-record.c | 10 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | tools/perf/builtin-top.c | 6 |
2 files changed, 15 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-record.c b/tools/perf/builtin-record.c index 623695e18254..db6adecf46f1 100644 --- a/tools/perf/builtin-record.c +++ b/tools/perf/builtin-record.c @@ -301,11 +301,19 @@ try_again: && attr->config == PERF_COUNT_HW_CPU_CYCLES) { if (verbose) - warning(" ... trying to fall back to cpu-clock-ticks\n"); + ui__warning("The cycles event is not supported, " + "trying to fall back to cpu-clock-ticks\n"); attr->type = PERF_TYPE_SOFTWARE; attr->config = PERF_COUNT_SW_CPU_CLOCK; goto try_again; } + + if (err == ENOENT) { + ui__warning("The %s event is not supported.\n", + event_name(pos)); + exit(EXIT_FAILURE); + } + printf("\n"); error("sys_perf_event_open() syscall returned with %d (%s). /bin/dmesg may provide additional information.\n", err, strerror(err)); diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-top.c b/tools/perf/builtin-top.c index 935fc4fd878e..fc1273e976c5 100644 --- a/tools/perf/builtin-top.c +++ b/tools/perf/builtin-top.c @@ -870,6 +870,12 @@ try_again: goto try_again; } + if (err == ENOENT) { + ui__warning("The %s event is not supported.\n", + event_name(counter)); + goto out_err; + } + ui__warning("The sys_perf_event_open() syscall " "returned with %d (%s). /bin/dmesg " "may provide additional information.\n" |