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| author | David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> | 2012-05-08 17:28:57 +0200 |
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| committer | Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> | 2012-05-09 16:57:29 +0200 |
| commit | 028d455b12719a48b1c4b51ce07a074135726f8f (patch) | |
| tree | 08959d68e6f3dc9cbd4d8e14467c1bdc24ade900 /tools | |
| parent | perf report: Fix format string for x86-32 compilation (diff) | |
| download | linux-028d455b12719a48b1c4b51ce07a074135726f8f.tar.xz linux-028d455b12719a48b1c4b51ce07a074135726f8f.zip | |
perf record: Fix fallback to cpu-clock on ppc
perf-record on PPC is not falling back to cpu-clock:
$ perf record -ag -fo /tmp/perf.data -- sleep 1
Error: sys_perf_event_open() syscall returned with 6 (No such device or address). /bin/dmesg may provide additional information.
Fatal: No CONFIG_PERF_EVENTS=y kernel support configured?
The problem is that until 2.6.37 (behavior changed with commit b0a873e)
perf on PPC returns ENXIO when hw_perf_event_init() fails. With this
patch we get the expected behavior:
$ perf record -ag -fo /tmp/perf.data -v -- sleep 1
Old kernel, cannot exclude guest or host samples.
The cycles event is not supported, trying to fall back to cpu-clock-ticks
[ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ]
[ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.151 MB /tmp/perf.data (~6592 samples) ]
Signed-off-by: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1336490937-57106-1-git-send-email-dsahern@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'tools')
| -rw-r--r-- | tools/perf/builtin-record.c | 8 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-record.c b/tools/perf/builtin-record.c index 42e24149c791..1a9098c697b4 100644 --- a/tools/perf/builtin-record.c +++ b/tools/perf/builtin-record.c @@ -242,9 +242,13 @@ try_again: /* * If it's cycles then fall back to hrtimer * based cpu-clock-tick sw counter, which - * is always available even if no PMU support: + * is always available even if no PMU support. + * + * PPC returns ENXIO until 2.6.37 (behavior changed + * with commit b0a873e). */ - if (err == ENOENT && attr->type == PERF_TYPE_HARDWARE + if ((err == ENOENT || err == ENXIO) + && attr->type == PERF_TYPE_HARDWARE && attr->config == PERF_COUNT_HW_CPU_CYCLES) { if (verbose) |