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| author | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2011-04-28 08:48:42 +0200 |
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| committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2011-04-28 08:48:42 +0200 |
| commit | ede70290046043b2638204cab55e26ea1d0c6cd9 (patch) | |
| tree | b5de51125db7477b18776614923edea00a20fc31 /tools/perf | |
| parent | f9cef0a90c4e7637f1ec98474a1a099aec45eb65 (diff) | |
| download | lwn-ede70290046043b2638204cab55e26ea1d0c6cd9.tar.gz lwn-ede70290046043b2638204cab55e26ea1d0c6cd9.zip | |
perf stat: Fix compatibility behavior
Instead of failing on an unknown event, when new perf stat is run on
older kernels:
$ ./perf stat true
Error: open_counter returned with 22 (Invalid argument). /bin/dmesg
may provide additional information.
Fatal: Not all events could be opened.
Just ignore EINVAL and ENOSYS, we'll print the results as not counted:
Performance counter stats for 'true':
0.239483 task-clock # 0.493 CPUs utilized
0 context-switches # 0.000 M/sec
0 CPU-migrations # 0.000 M/sec
86 page-faults # 0.359 M/sec
704,766 cycles # 2.943 GHz
<not counted> stalled-cycles
381,961 instructions # 0.54 insns per cycle
69,626 branches # 290.735 M/sec
4,594 branch-misses # 6.60% of all branches
0.000485883 seconds time elapsed
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-7y40wib8n1eqio5hjpn3dsrm@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Diffstat (limited to 'tools/perf')
| -rw-r--r-- | tools/perf/builtin-stat.c | 5 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-stat.c b/tools/perf/builtin-stat.c index 5658a770dbd7..da77077450cf 100644 --- a/tools/perf/builtin-stat.c +++ b/tools/perf/builtin-stat.c @@ -372,7 +372,10 @@ static int run_perf_stat(int argc __used, const char **argv) list_for_each_entry(counter, &evsel_list->entries, node) { if (create_perf_stat_counter(counter) < 0) { - if (errno == -EPERM || errno == -EACCES) { + if (errno == EINVAL || errno == ENOSYS) + continue; + + if (errno == EPERM || errno == EACCES) { error("You may not have permission to collect %sstats.\n" "\t Consider tweaking" " /proc/sys/kernel/perf_event_paranoid or running as root.", |