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authorKim Phillips <kim.phillips@arm.com>2017-11-14 22:04:52 +0100
committerArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>2017-11-16 18:50:03 +0100
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perf evsel: Say which PMU Hardware event doesn't support sampling/overflow-interrupts
Help identify to the user the event with the unsupported sampling error. Also suggest a corrective action. BEFORE: $ sudo ./oldperf record -e armv8_pmuv3/mem_access/,ccn/cycles/,armv8_pmuv3/l2d_cache/ true Error: PMU Hardware doesn't support sampling/overflow-interrupts. AFTER: $ sudo ./newperf record -e armv8_pmuv3/mem_access/,ccn/cycles/,armv8_pmuv3/l2d_cache/ true Error: ccn/cycles/: PMU Hardware doesn't support sampling/overflow-interrupts. Try 'perf stat' Signed-off-by: Kim Phillips <kim.phillips@arm.com> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171114150452.e846f2e23684c7d7d8ee706f@arm.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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