linux/tools
Adrian Hunter 9bca1a4ef5 perf record: Add a function to test for kernel support for AUX area sampling
Architectures are expected to know if AUX area sampling is supported by
the hardware. Add a function perf_can_aux_sample() which will determine
whether the kernel supports it.

Committer notes:

I reported that this message was taking place on a kernel without the
required bits:

  # perf record --aux-sample -e '{intel_pt//u,branch-misses:u}'
  Error:
  The sys_perf_event_open() syscall returned with 7 (Argument list too long) for event (branch-misses:u).
  /bin/dmesg | grep -i perf may provide additional information.

Adrian sent a patch addressing it, with this explanation:

 ----
  perf_can_aux_sample_size() always returned true because it did not pass
  the attribute size to sys_perf_event_open, nor correctly check the
  return value and errno.
 ----

After applying it I get, later in the series, when --aux-sample is
added:

  # perf record --aux-sample -e '{intel_pt//u,branch-misses:u}'
  AUX area sampling is not supported by kernel

Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Link: http://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20191115124225.5247-4-adrian.hunter@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2019-11-22 10:43:24 -03:00
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accounting
arch x86/insn: Add some Intel instructions to the opcode map 2019-11-18 18:54:45 -03:00
bpf tools: bpf: Use !building_out_of_srctree to determine srctree 2019-09-30 10:53:34 +02:00
build tools build: Add capability-related feature detection 2019-08-12 17:14:14 -03:00
cgroup iocost_monitor: Report debt 2019-09-10 12:31:39 -06:00
debugging
firewire
firmware Driver Core and debugfs changes for 5.3-rc1 2019-07-12 12:24:03 -07:00
gpio tools: gpio: Use !building_out_of_srctree to determine srctree 2019-10-22 14:42:42 +02:00
hv - First round of vmbus hibernation support from Dexuan Cui. 2019-09-24 12:36:31 -07:00
iio tools: iio: add .gitignore 2019-08-18 20:45:57 +01:00
include perf tools: Add kernel AUX area sampling definitions 2019-11-21 10:54:20 -03:00
io_uring
kvm/kvm_stat
laptop
leds leds: core: Add support for composing LED class device names 2019-07-25 20:07:52 +02:00
lib libtraceevent: Fix parsing of event %o and %X argument types 2019-11-18 13:01:59 -03:00
memory-model tools/memory-model: Update the informal documentation 2019-08-09 10:28:57 -07:00
nfsd
objtool KVM: x86: Check kvm_rebooting in kvm_spurious_fault() 2019-09-25 15:23:33 +02:00
pci pci-v5.3-changes 2019-07-15 20:44:49 -07:00
pcmcia
perf perf record: Add a function to test for kernel support for AUX area sampling 2019-11-22 10:43:24 -03:00
power platform-drivers-x86 for v5.4-2 2019-09-24 12:39:40 -07:00
scripts perf build: Do not use -Wshadow on gcc < 4.8 2019-07-23 09:04:54 -03:00
spi
testing Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net 2019-11-08 18:21:05 -08:00
thermal/tmon
time
usb usbip: tools: Fix read_usb_vudc_device() error path handling 2019-10-28 17:51:06 +01:00
virtio tools/virtio: xen stub 2019-10-13 09:38:27 -04:00
vm tools/vm/slabinfo: add sorting info to help menu 2019-07-12 11:05:46 -07:00
wmi
Makefile tools: Keep list of tools in alphabetical order 2019-08-14 10:59:59 -03:00