perf top: Error handling for counter creation should parallel perf-record
authorDavid Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Mon, 30 Jul 2012 02:53:03 +0000 (20:53 -0600)
committerArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Fri, 3 Aug 2012 13:30:18 +0000 (10:30 -0300)
5a7ed29 fixed up perf-record but not perf-top. Similar argument holds
for it -- fallback to PMU only if it does not exist and handle invalid
attributes separately.

Signed-off-by: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1343616783-6360-1-git-send-email-dsahern@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
tools/perf/builtin-top.c

index 40264eaa9f0f3a831b34eb21883b747bb2b1bb66..34096275a7b5a6695b5dbf9bc832e8de57d9a112 100644 (file)
@@ -943,8 +943,10 @@ try_again:
                         * based cpu-clock-tick sw counter, which
                         * is always available even if no PMU support:
                         */
-                       if (attr->type == PERF_TYPE_HARDWARE &&
-                           attr->config == PERF_COUNT_HW_CPU_CYCLES) {
+                       if ((err == ENOENT || err == ENXIO) &&
+                           (attr->type == PERF_TYPE_HARDWARE) &&
+                           (attr->config == PERF_COUNT_HW_CPU_CYCLES)) {
+
                                if (verbose)
                                        ui__warning("Cycles event not supported,\n"
                                                    "trying to fall back to cpu-clock-ticks\n");