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authorArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>2020-12-07 14:04:05 -0300
committerArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>2020-12-17 14:36:16 -0300
commit456ef4c11c06f0b8c53acaf796d77d2033f079f2 (patch)
tree867642541ce15e68f55f506890a0531bc20c0cd5 /tools
parent542b88fd12769bf5be307b11ca0f94a6140bba82 (diff)
downloadlinux-456ef4c11c06f0b8c53acaf796d77d2033f079f2.tar.bz2
perf evsel: Emit warning about kernel not supporting the data page size sample_type bit
Before we had this unhelpful message: $ perf record --data-page-size sleep 1 Error: The sys_perf_event_open() syscall returned with 22 (Invalid argument) for event (cycles:u). /bin/dmesg | grep -i perf may provide additional information. $ Add support to the perf_missing_features variable to remember what caused evsel__open() to fail and then use that information in evsel__open_strerror(). $ perf record --data-page-size sleep 1 Error: Asking for the data page size isn't supported by this kernel. $ Cc: Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org> Link: http://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20201207170759.GB129853@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'tools')
-rw-r--r--tools/perf/util/evsel.c9
-rw-r--r--tools/perf/util/evsel.h1
2 files changed, 9 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/evsel.c b/tools/perf/util/evsel.c
index 5e6085c3fc76..c26ea82220bd 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/evsel.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/evsel.c
@@ -1873,7 +1873,12 @@ try_fallback:
* Must probe features in the order they were added to the
* perf_event_attr interface.
*/
- if (!perf_missing_features.cgroup && evsel->core.attr.cgroup) {
+ if (!perf_missing_features.data_page_size &&
+ (evsel->core.attr.sample_type & PERF_SAMPLE_DATA_PAGE_SIZE)) {
+ perf_missing_features.data_page_size = true;
+ pr_debug2_peo("Kernel has no PERF_SAMPLE_DATA_PAGE_SIZE support, bailing out\n");
+ goto out_close;
+ } else if (!perf_missing_features.cgroup && evsel->core.attr.cgroup) {
perf_missing_features.cgroup = true;
pr_debug2_peo("Kernel has no cgroup sampling support, bailing out\n");
goto out_close;
@@ -2673,6 +2678,8 @@ int evsel__open_strerror(struct evsel *evsel, struct target *target,
"We found oprofile daemon running, please stop it and try again.");
break;
case EINVAL:
+ if (evsel->core.attr.sample_type & PERF_SAMPLE_DATA_PAGE_SIZE && perf_missing_features.data_page_size)
+ return scnprintf(msg, size, "Asking for the data page size isn't supported by this kernel.");
if (evsel->core.attr.write_backward && perf_missing_features.write_backward)
return scnprintf(msg, size, "Reading from overwrite event is not supported by this kernel.");
if (perf_missing_features.clockid)
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/evsel.h b/tools/perf/util/evsel.h
index 79a860d8e3ee..cd1d8dd43199 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/evsel.h
+++ b/tools/perf/util/evsel.h
@@ -144,6 +144,7 @@ struct perf_missing_features {
bool aux_output;
bool branch_hw_idx;
bool cgroup;
+ bool data_page_size;
};
extern struct perf_missing_features perf_missing_features;