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Commit 20d23aaa authored by David Ahern's avatar David Ahern Committed by Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
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perf stat: handle ENXIO error for perf_event_open

perf stat on PPC currently fails to run:

$ perf stat -- sleep 1
  Error: open_counter returned with 6 (No such device or address). /bin/dmesg may provide additional information.

  Fatal: Not all events could be opened.

The problem is that until 2.6.37 (behavior changed with commit b0a873eb

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perf on PPC returns ENXIO when hw_perf_event_init() fails. With this
patch we get the expected behavior:

$ perf stat -v -- sleep 1
cycles event is not supported by the kernel.
stalled-cycles-frontend event is not supported by the kernel.
stalled-cycles-backend event is not supported by the kernel.
instructions event is not supported by the kernel.
branches event is not supported by the kernel.
branch-misses event is not supported by the kernel.

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Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1336490956-57145-1-git-send-email-dsahern@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: default avatarArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@re...>
parent 09c0211c
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