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authorAdrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>2019-11-15 14:42:13 +0200
committerArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>2019-11-22 10:43:24 -0300
commit9bca1a4ef5034f0a82861ac0375eb0272c5ce04e (patch)
treefc6368693b9d21ca6103d6fa8e1c9cb71b46036a /tools/perf/util/evlist.h
parent98dcf14d7f9c9482144b9015d481bf6b63bce965 (diff)
downloadlinux-9bca1a4ef5034f0a82861ac0375eb0272c5ce04e.tar.bz2
perf record: Add a function to test for kernel support for AUX area sampling
Architectures are expected to know if AUX area sampling is supported by the hardware. Add a function perf_can_aux_sample() which will determine whether the kernel supports it. Committer notes: I reported that this message was taking place on a kernel without the required bits: # perf record --aux-sample -e '{intel_pt//u,branch-misses:u}' Error: The sys_perf_event_open() syscall returned with 7 (Argument list too long) for event (branch-misses:u). /bin/dmesg | grep -i perf may provide additional information. Adrian sent a patch addressing it, with this explanation: ---- perf_can_aux_sample_size() always returned true because it did not pass the attribute size to sys_perf_event_open, nor correctly check the return value and errno. ---- After applying it I get, later in the series, when --aux-sample is added: # perf record --aux-sample -e '{intel_pt//u,branch-misses:u}' AUX area sampling is not supported by kernel Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Link: http://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20191115124225.5247-4-adrian.hunter@intel.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'tools/perf/util/evlist.h')
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diff --git a/tools/perf/util/evlist.h b/tools/perf/util/evlist.h
index 13051409fd22..3655b9ebb147 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/evlist.h
+++ b/tools/perf/util/evlist.h
@@ -176,6 +176,7 @@ void perf_evlist__set_id_pos(struct evlist *evlist);
bool perf_can_sample_identifier(void);
bool perf_can_record_switch_events(void);
bool perf_can_record_cpu_wide(void);
+bool perf_can_aux_sample(void);
void perf_evlist__config(struct evlist *evlist, struct record_opts *opts,
struct callchain_param *callchain);
int record_opts__config(struct record_opts *opts);