perf stat: Fail softly on unsupported events
authorIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Fri, 29 Apr 2011 14:11:03 +0000 (16:11 +0200)
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Fri, 29 Apr 2011 14:22:33 +0000 (16:22 +0200)
David Ahern reported this perf stat failure:

> # /tmp/build-perf/perf stat -- sleep 1
>   Error: stalled-cycles-frontend event is not supported.
>   Fatal: Not all events could be opened.
>
> This is a Dell R410 with an E5620 processor.

Fail in a softer fashion on unknown/unsupported events.

Reported-by: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-7y40wib8n006io7hjpn1dsrm@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
tools/perf/builtin-stat.c

index 9e596ab98d057569da9f79363c43c2a3a4fff90d..c8b535bc27bd70a8e6f3bc276ce9537050d28f8b 100644 (file)
@@ -377,7 +377,7 @@ static int run_perf_stat(int argc __used, const char **argv)
 
        list_for_each_entry(counter, &evsel_list->entries, node) {
                if (create_perf_stat_counter(counter) < 0) {
-                       if (errno == EINVAL || errno == ENOSYS)
+                       if (errno == EINVAL || errno == ENOSYS || errno == ENOENT)
                                continue;
 
                        if (errno == EPERM || errno == EACCES) {
@@ -385,8 +385,6 @@ static int run_perf_stat(int argc __used, const char **argv)
                                      "\t Consider tweaking"
                                      " /proc/sys/kernel/perf_event_paranoid or running as root.",
                                      system_wide ? "system-wide " : "");
-                       } else if (errno == ENOENT) {
-                               error("%s event is not supported. ", event_name(counter));
                        } else {
                                error("open_counter returned with %d (%s). "
                                      "/bin/dmesg may provide additional information.\n",