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| author | Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> | 2014-02-22 17:20:46 +0100 |
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| committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> | 2014-02-22 17:20:46 +0100 |
| commit | a9d3f94ec7708427b9f05a65246d3fd6e287fa51 (patch) | |
| tree | ef555c5c85e55d90c343af382b1042b2957c0584 /tools/perf/util/parse-events.c | |
| parent | 337397f3afc911d94d1d71371a36a53ce218b41f (diff) | |
| parent | 844ae5b46c08dbc7ba695b543c023f9cf3bbf9ff (diff) | |
Merge tag 'perf-urgent-for-mingo' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/acme/linux into perf/urgent
Pull perf/urgent fixes from Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo:
* Handle PERF_RECORD_HEADER_EVENT_TYPE properly. (Jiri Olsa)
* Fix checking for supported events on older kernels in
'perf list' (Vince Weaver)
* Do not add offset twice to uprobe address in
'perf probe' (Masami Hiramatsu)
* Fix perf trace's ioctl 'request' beautifier build problems
on !(i386 || x86_64) arches (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)
* Fix 'perf trace' build by adding a fallback definition for
EFD_SEMAPHORE (Ben Hutchings)
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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); } |