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| author | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> | 2014-03-02 20:09:08 -0800 |
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| committer | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> | 2014-03-02 20:09:08 -0800 |
| commit | 13df7977431e3b906a23bb75f29e0f40a8d73f87 (patch) | |
| tree | bc2c78c3b816a65f90c31cccebdc15b38352c045 /tools/perf/util/parse-events.c | |
| parent | 6d8b3e1ad3d3815d9c87b8553493301e243af76a (diff) | |
| parent | 0414855fdc4a40da05221fc6062cccbc0c30f169 (diff) | |
Merge 3.14-rc5 into driver-core-next
We want the fixes in here.
Diffstat (limited to 'tools/perf/util/parse-events.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | tools/perf/util/parse-events.c | 17 |
1 files changed, 15 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/parse-events.c b/tools/perf/util/parse-events.c index d248fca6d7e..1e15df10a88 100644 --- a/tools/perf/util/parse-events.c +++ b/tools/perf/util/parse-events.c @@ -1091,12 +1091,12 @@ int is_valid_tracepoint(const char *event_string) static bool is_event_supported(u8 type, unsigned config) { bool ret = true; + int open_return; struct perf_evsel *evsel; struct perf_event_attr attr = { .type = type, .config = config, .disabled = 1, - .exclude_kernel = 1, }; struct { struct thread_map map; @@ -1108,7 +1108,20 @@ static bool is_event_supported(u8 type, unsigned config) evsel = perf_evsel__new(&attr); if (evsel) { - ret = perf_evsel__open(evsel, NULL, &tmap.map) >= 0; + open_return = perf_evsel__open(evsel, NULL, &tmap.map); + ret = open_return >= 0; + + if (open_return == -EACCES) { + /* + * This happens if the paranoid value + * /proc/sys/kernel/perf_event_paranoid is set to 2 + * Re-run with exclude_kernel set; we don't do that + * by default as some ARM machines do not support it. + * + */ + evsel->attr.exclude_kernel = 1; + ret = perf_evsel__open(evsel, NULL, &tmap.map) >= 0; + } perf_evsel__delete(evsel); } |