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Commit 8a1898db authored by Hendrik Brueckner's avatar Hendrik Brueckner Committed by Ingo Molnar
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perf/aux: Correct return code of rb_alloc_aux() if !has_aux(ev)



If the event for which an AUX area is about to be allocated, does
not support setting up an AUX area, rb_alloc_aux() return -ENOTSUPP.

This error condition is being returned unfiltered to the user space,
and, for example, the perf tools fails with:

  failed to mmap with 524 (INTERNAL ERROR: strerror_r(524, 0x3fff497a1c8, 512)=22)

This error can be easily seen with "perf record -m 128,256 -e cpu-clock".

The 524 error code maps to -ENOTSUPP (in rb_alloc_aux()). The -ENOTSUPP
error code shall be only used within the kernel.  So the correct error
code would then be -EOPNOTSUPP.

With this commit, the perf tool then reports:

  failed to mmap with 95 (Operation not supported)

which is more clear.

Signed-off-by: default avatarHendrik Brueckner <brueckner@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: default avatarAlexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Pu Hou <bjhoupu@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Thomas-Mich Richter <tmricht@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: acme@kernel.org
Cc: linux-s390@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1497954399-6355-1-git-send-email-brueckner@linux.vnet.ibm.com


Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
parent 9705596d
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