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>
diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-record.c b/tools/perf/builtin-record.c
index 623695e..db6adec 100644
--- a/tools/perf/builtin-record.c
+++ b/tools/perf/builtin-record.c
@@ -301,11 +301,19 @@
&& 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 935fc4f..fc1273e 100644
--- a/tools/perf/builtin-top.c
+++ b/tools/perf/builtin-top.c
@@ -870,6 +870,12 @@
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"
