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| author | Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> | 2018-10-01 21:59:27 +0200 |
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| committer | Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> | 2018-11-05 18:37:10 +0100 |
| commit | cf99ad1424c54fc84b84d3a3deb57a48c340c30a (patch) | |
| tree | 32c11d477bba453be94db8246269d40111e3b233 /tools | |
| parent | perf evlist: Move perf_evsel__reset_weak_group into evlist (diff) | |
| download | linux-cf99ad1424c54fc84b84d3a3deb57a48c340c30a.tar.xz linux-cf99ad1424c54fc84b84d3a3deb57a48c340c30a.zip | |
perf record: Support weak groups
Implement a weak group fallback for 'perf record', similar to the
existing 'perf stat' support. This allows to use groups that might be
longer than the available counters without failing.
Before:
$ perf record -e '{cycles,cache-misses,cache-references,cpu_clk_unhalted.thread,cycles,cycles,cycles}' -a sleep 1
Error:
The sys_perf_event_open() syscall returned with 22 (Invalid argument) for event (cycles).
/bin/dmesg | grep -i perf may provide additional information.
After:
$ ./perf record -e '{cycles,cache-misses,cache-references,cpu_clk_unhalted.thread,cycles,cycles,cycles}:W' -a sleep 1
WARNING: No sample_id_all support, falling back to unordered processing
[ perf record: Woken up 3 times to write data ]
[ perf record: Captured and wrote 8.136 MB perf.data (134069 samples) ]
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181001195927.14211-2-andi@firstfloor.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'tools')
| -rw-r--r-- | tools/perf/Documentation/perf-list.txt | 1 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | tools/perf/builtin-record.c | 7 |
2 files changed, 6 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-list.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-list.txt index 236b9b97dfdb..667c14e56031 100644 --- a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-list.txt +++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-list.txt @@ -55,7 +55,6 @@ counted. The following modifiers exist: S - read sample value (PERF_SAMPLE_READ) D - pin the event to the PMU W - group is weak and will fallback to non-group if not schedulable, - only supported in 'perf stat' for now. The 'p' modifier can be used for specifying how precise the instruction address should be. The 'p' modifier can be specified multiple times: diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-record.c b/tools/perf/builtin-record.c index 10cf889c6d75..488779bc4c8d 100644 --- a/tools/perf/builtin-record.c +++ b/tools/perf/builtin-record.c @@ -391,7 +391,12 @@ try_again: ui__warning("%s\n", msg); goto try_again; } - + if ((errno == EINVAL || errno == EBADF) && + pos->leader != pos && + pos->weak_group) { + pos = perf_evlist__reset_weak_group(evlist, pos); + goto try_again; + } rc = -errno; perf_evsel__open_strerror(pos, &opts->target, errno, msg, sizeof(msg)); |