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authorKim Phillips <kim.phillips@arm.com>2017-11-14 15:04:52 -0600
committerArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>2017-11-16 14:50:03 -0300
commit114bc191c37028d87a540251d93e7b328f4de3fe (patch)
tree09316672b9316aca051cfc3ba1fd3b606210242c /tools/perf/util/evsel.c
parent239fb4fed6c49110ebebe7378a84d96e3f0cf55d (diff)
perf evsel: Say which PMU Hardware event doesn't support sampling/overflow-interrupts
Help identify to the user the event with the unsupported sampling error. Also suggest a corrective action. BEFORE: $ sudo ./oldperf record -e armv8_pmuv3/mem_access/,ccn/cycles/,armv8_pmuv3/l2d_cache/ true Error: PMU Hardware doesn't support sampling/overflow-interrupts. AFTER: $ sudo ./newperf record -e armv8_pmuv3/mem_access/,ccn/cycles/,armv8_pmuv3/l2d_cache/ true Error: ccn/cycles/: PMU Hardware doesn't support sampling/overflow-interrupts. Try 'perf stat' Signed-off-by: Kim Phillips <kim.phillips@arm.com> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171114150452.e846f2e23684c7d7d8ee706f@arm.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'tools/perf/util/evsel.c')
-rw-r--r--tools/perf/util/evsel.c5
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/evsel.c b/tools/perf/util/evsel.c
index cb9bcdb065ea..b8e9def77f44 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/evsel.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/evsel.c
@@ -2745,8 +2745,9 @@ int perf_evsel__open_strerror(struct perf_evsel *evsel, struct target *target,
break;
case EOPNOTSUPP:
if (evsel->attr.sample_period != 0)
- return scnprintf(msg, size, "%s",
- "PMU Hardware doesn't support sampling/overflow-interrupts.");
+ return scnprintf(msg, size,
+ "%s: PMU Hardware doesn't support sampling/overflow-interrupts. Try 'perf stat'",
+ perf_evsel__name(evsel));
if (evsel->attr.precise_ip)
return scnprintf(msg, size, "%s",
"\'precise\' request may not be supported. Try removing 'p' modifier.");