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| author | Vineet Gupta <Vineet.Gupta1@synopsys.com> | 2016-05-09 15:07:40 +0530 |
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| committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> | 2016-06-03 09:40:42 +0200 |
| commit | a1396555abff9ff9b74c2e4da13e27e81fd094b2 (patch) | |
| tree | 6110fe9ba57f3c7f8ad4bbf07138705bde694a6e /kernel/events | |
| parent | a54fa07930c0f7db55ecb4cc16b86d74101332c0 (diff) | |
| download | linux-a1396555abff9ff9b74c2e4da13e27e81fd094b2.tar.bz2 | |
perf/abi: Change the errno for sampling event not supported in hardware
Change the return code for sampling event not supported from -ENOTSUPP
to -EOPNOTSUPP.
This allows userspace to identify this case specifically, instead of
printing the catch-all error message it did previously.
Technically this is an ABI change, but we think we can get away
with it.
Old behavior:
-------
| # perf record ls
| Error:
| The sys_perf_event_open() syscall returned with 524 (Unknown error 524)
| for event (cycles:ppp).
| /bin/dmesg may provide additional information.
| No CONFIG_PERF_EVENTS=y kernel support configured?
New behavior:
-------
| # perf record ls
| Error:
| PMU Hardware doesn't support sampling/overflow-interrupts.
Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: <linux-snps-arc@lists.infradead.org>
Cc: <vincent.weaver@maine.edu>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu>
Cc: Vineet Gupta <Vineet.Gupta1@synopsys.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1462786660-2900-3-git-send-email-vgupta@synopsys.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/events')
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/events/core.c | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/events/core.c b/kernel/events/core.c index f94f164b5054..5d48306879d5 100644 --- a/kernel/events/core.c +++ b/kernel/events/core.c @@ -9309,7 +9309,7 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE5(perf_event_open, if (is_sampling_event(event)) { if (event->pmu->capabilities & PERF_PMU_CAP_NO_INTERRUPT) { - err = -ENOTSUPP; + err = -EOPNOTSUPP; goto err_alloc; } } |