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perf stat: Fail softly on unsupported events

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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>
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Ingo Molnar 2011-04-29 16:11:03 +02:00
parent fce3c786d3
commit 370faf1dd0
1 changed files with 1 additions and 3 deletions
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tools/perf/builtin-stat.c
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@ -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",