perf tools: Emit clearer message for sys_perf_event_open ENOENT return

Resend of patch sent back in January 2011 in light of recent confusion around
unsupported events for a given platform.

Improve sys_perf_event_open ENOENT return handling in top and record, just
like 5a3446b does for stat.

Retry of Arnaldo's patch using ui_warning instead of die which allows the
fallback from hardware cycles to software clock.

Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
LKML-Reference: <1301080271-20945-1-git-send-email-daahern@cisco.com>
Signed-off-by: David Ahern <daahern@cisco.com>
[ committer note: Some adjustments to make it apply to newer codebase ]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

1 files changed, 9 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-record.c b/tools/perf/builtin-record.c
index 623695e18254..db6adecf46f1 100644
--- a/tools/perf/builtin-record.c
+++ b/tools/perf/builtin-record.c
@@ -301,11 +301,19 @@ try_again:
 					&& attr->config == PERF_COUNT_HW_CPU_CYCLES) {
 
 				if (verbose)
-					warning(" ... trying to fall back to cpu-clock-ticks\n");
+					ui__warning("The cycles event is not supported, "
+						    "trying to fall back to cpu-clock-ticks\n");
 				attr->type = PERF_TYPE_SOFTWARE;
 				attr->config = PERF_COUNT_SW_CPU_CLOCK;
 				goto try_again;
 			}
+
+			if (err == ENOENT) {
+				ui__warning("The %s event is not supported.\n",
+					    event_name(pos));
+				exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
+			}
+
 			printf("\n");
 			error("sys_perf_event_open() syscall returned with %d (%s).  /bin/dmesg may provide additional information.\n",
 			      err, strerror(err));