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David Ahern 20d23aaa31 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 b0a873e)
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: David Ahern <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
2012-05-09 14:14:41 -03:00
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2012-03-28 17:14:37 -07:00