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perf evsel: Say which PMU Hardware event doesn't support sampling/overflow-interrupts 

Help identify to the user the event with the unsupported sampling error.
Also suggest a corrective action.

BEFORE:

$ sudo ./oldperf record -e armv8_pmuv3/mem_access/,ccn/cycles/,armv8_pmuv3/l2d_cache/ true
Error:
PMU Hardware doesn't support sampling/overflow-interrupts.

AFTER:

$ sudo ./newperf record -e armv8_pmuv3/mem_access/,ccn/cycles/,armv8_pmuv3/l2d_cache/ true
Error:
ccn/cycles/: PMU Hardware doesn't support sampling/overflow-interrupts. Try 'perf stat'

Signed-off-by: Kim Phillips <kim.phillips@arm.com>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171114150452.e846f2e23684c7d7d8ee706f@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
hifive-unleashed-5.1
Kim Phillips 2017-11-14 15:04:52 -06:00 committed by Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
parent 239fb4fed6
commit 114bc191c3
1 changed files with 3 additions and 2 deletions
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@ -2745,8 +2745,9 @@ int perf_evsel__open_strerror(struct perf_evsel *evsel, struct target *target,
break;
case EOPNOTSUPP:
if (evsel->attr.sample_period != 0)
return scnprintf(msg, size, "%s",
"PMU Hardware doesn't support sampling/overflow-interrupts.");
return scnprintf(msg, size,
"%s: PMU Hardware doesn't support sampling/overflow-interrupts. Try 'perf stat'",
perf_evsel__name(evsel));
if (evsel->attr.precise_ip)
return scnprintf(msg, size, "%s",
"\'precise\' request may not be supported. Try removing 'p' modifier.");