linux/tools/perf
Stephane Eranian 5622c07b47 perf stat: Fix case where guest/host monitoring is not supported by kernel
By default, perf stat sets exclude_guest = 1. But when you run perf on a
kernel which does not support  host/guest filtering, then you get an
error saying the event in unsupported. This comes from the fact that
when the perf_event_attr struct passed by the user is larger than the
one known to the kernel there is safety check which ensures that all
unknown bits are zero. But here, exclude_guest is 1 (part of the unknown
bits) and thus the perf_event_open() syscall return EINVAL.

To my surprise, running perf record on the same kernel did not exhibit
the problem. The reason is that perf record handles the problem by
catching the error and retrying with guest/host excludes set to zero.
For some reason, this was not done with perf stat. This patch fixes this
problem.

Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Joerg Roedel <joro@8bytes.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120427124538.GA7230@quad
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2012-05-01 14:20:00 -03:00
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arch perf tools: Use scnprintf where applicable 2012-03-14 12:36:19 -03:00
bench perf tool: Fix perf stack to non executable on x86_64 2012-02-06 19:14:17 -02:00
config perf report: Add a simple GTK2-based 'perf report' browser 2012-03-19 15:13:29 -03:00
Documentation perf report: Add a simple GTK2-based 'perf report' browser 2012-03-19 15:13:29 -03:00
python perf python: Use attr.watermark in twatch.py 2012-01-30 18:38:23 -02:00
scripts perf script: Add drop monitor script 2011-09-29 16:41:37 -03:00
util perf build-id: Fix filename size calculation 2012-05-01 14:13:00 -03:00
.gitignore perf tools: Ignore auto-generated bison/flex files 2012-04-14 13:50:39 -03:00
builtin-annotate.c perf annotate: Get rid of field_sep check 2012-01-08 13:29:34 -02:00
builtin-bench.c perf bench: Also allow measuring memset() 2012-01-24 20:25:32 -02:00
builtin-buildid-cache.c perf buildid: add perfconfig option to specify buildid cache dir 2010-06-05 09:34:04 -03:00
builtin-buildid-list.c perf report: Accept fifos as input file 2011-12-23 17:01:03 -02:00
builtin-diff.c perf diff: Fix to work with new hists design 2012-03-22 15:12:09 -03:00
builtin-evlist.c perf report: Accept fifos as input file 2011-12-23 17:01:03 -02:00
builtin-help.c perf options: Type check all the remaining OPT_ variants 2010-05-17 16:22:41 -03:00
builtin-inject.c perf tools: Rename perf_event_ops to perf_tool 2011-11-28 10:39:28 -02:00
builtin-kmem.c perf kmem: Fix a memory leak 2012-01-08 13:27:54 -02:00
builtin-kvm.c perf kvm: Do guest-only counting by default 2012-01-06 15:47:37 -02:00
builtin-list.c perf list: Allow filtering list of events 2011-02-17 15:38:58 -02:00
builtin-lock.c perf lock: Document lock info subcommand 2012-01-30 18:30:48 -02:00
builtin-probe.c perf probe: Rename target_module to target 2012-02-02 17:39:15 -02:00
builtin-record.c perf record: Add HEADER_BRANCH_STACK tag 2012-03-09 08:26:08 +01:00
builtin-report.c perf report: Fix crash showing warning related to kernel maps 2012-04-16 11:18:22 -03:00
builtin-sched.c perf tools: Fix getrusage() related build failure on glibc trunk 2012-04-04 11:59:00 +02:00
builtin-script.c perf script: Add option resolving vmlinux path 2012-01-30 18:13:07 -02:00
builtin-stat.c perf stat: Fix case where guest/host monitoring is not supported by kernel 2012-05-01 14:20:00 -03:00
builtin-test.c perf tools: Add 'G' and 'H' modifiers to event parsing 2012-04-17 11:20:23 -03:00
builtin-timechart.c perf report: Accept fifos as input file 2011-12-23 17:01:03 -02:00
builtin-top.c perf annotate: Validate addr in symbol__inc_addr_samples 2012-04-05 19:51:14 -03:00
builtin.h perf tools: Make perf.data more self-descriptive (v8) 2011-10-07 17:01:24 -03:00
command-list.txt perf evlist: New command to list the names of events present in a perf.data file 2011-03-15 11:10:48 -03:00
CREDITS perf_counter tools: Add CREDITS file for Git contributors 2009-06-24 19:54:29 +02:00
design.txt perf: Fix few typos + cosmetics 2010-01-13 17:39:44 +01:00
Makefile perf tools: Drop CROSS_COMPILE from flex and bison calls 2012-04-16 16:10:22 -03:00
MANIFEST perf tools: Fix out of tree compiles 2012-02-13 22:46:41 -02:00
perf-archive.sh perf archive: Correct cutting of symbolic link 2012-04-14 13:52:15 -03:00
perf.c perf tools: Simplify debugfs mountpoint handling code 2011-11-28 10:11:28 -02:00
perf.h Merge branch 'perf/urgent' into perf/core 2012-03-22 15:09:08 -03:00