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| author | Mauro Carvalho Chehab <m.chehab@samsung.com> | 2014-03-11 06:55:49 -0300 |
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| committer | Mauro Carvalho Chehab <m.chehab@samsung.com> | 2014-03-11 06:55:49 -0300 |
| commit | c897df0e2dbc81bcc09c11425658d69830825364 (patch) | |
| tree | 04c268e4951f2b75acb6873307673e45d05a635e /tools/perf/util/parse-events.c | |
| parent | 1e9c4d49020996a645a535cbb8f1ff78b9b120f3 (diff) | |
| parent | 0414855fdc4a40da05221fc6062cccbc0c30f169 (diff) | |
Merge tag 'v3.14-rc5' into patchwork
Linux 3.14-rc5
* tag 'v3.14-rc5': (1117 commits)
Linux 3.14-rc5
drm/vmwgfx: avoid null pointer dereference at failure paths
drm/vmwgfx: Make sure backing mobs are cleared when allocated. Update driver date.
drm/vmwgfx: Remove some unused surface formats
MAINTAINERS: add maintainer entry for Armada DRM driver
arm64: Fix !CONFIG_SMP kernel build
arm64: mm: Add double logical invert to pte accessors
dm cache: fix truncation bug when mapping I/O to >2TB fast device
perf tools: Fix strict alias issue for find_first_bit
powerpc/powernv: Fix indirect XSCOM unmangling
powerpc/powernv: Fix opal_xscom_{read,write} prototype
powerpc/powernv: Refactor PHB diag-data dump
powerpc/powernv: Dump PHB diag-data immediately
powerpc: Increase stack redzone for 64-bit userspace to 512 bytes
powerpc/ftrace: bugfix for test_24bit_addr
powerpc/crashdump : Fix page frame number check in copy_oldmem_page
powerpc/le: Ensure that the 'stop-self' RTAS token is handled correctly
kvm, vmx: Really fix lazy FPU on nested guest
perf tools: fix BFD detection on opensuse
drm/radeon: enable speaker allocation setup on dce3.2
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Diffstat (limited to 'tools/perf/util/parse-events.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | tools/perf/util/parse-events.c | 17 |
1 files changed, 15 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/parse-events.c b/tools/perf/util/parse-events.c index d248fca6d7ed..1e15df10a88c 100644 --- a/tools/perf/util/parse-events.c +++ b/tools/perf/util/parse-events.c @@ -1091,12 +1091,12 @@ int is_valid_tracepoint(const char *event_string) static bool is_event_supported(u8 type, unsigned config) { bool ret = true; + int open_return; struct perf_evsel *evsel; struct perf_event_attr attr = { .type = type, .config = config, .disabled = 1, - .exclude_kernel = 1, }; struct { struct thread_map map; @@ -1108,7 +1108,20 @@ static bool is_event_supported(u8 type, unsigned config) evsel = perf_evsel__new(&attr); if (evsel) { - ret = perf_evsel__open(evsel, NULL, &tmap.map) >= 0; + open_return = perf_evsel__open(evsel, NULL, &tmap.map); + ret = open_return >= 0; + + if (open_return == -EACCES) { + /* + * This happens if the paranoid value + * /proc/sys/kernel/perf_event_paranoid is set to 2 + * Re-run with exclude_kernel set; we don't do that + * by default as some ARM machines do not support it. + * + */ + evsel->attr.exclude_kernel = 1; + ret = perf_evsel__open(evsel, NULL, &tmap.map) >= 0; + } perf_evsel__delete(evsel); } |