From 028d455b12719a48b1c4b51ce07a074135726f8f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: David Ahern Date: Tue, 8 May 2012 09:28:57 -0600 Subject: [PATCH] perf record: Fix fallback to cpu-clock on ppc perf-record on PPC is not falling back to cpu-clock: $ perf record -ag -fo /tmp/perf.data -- sleep 1 Error: sys_perf_event_open() syscall returned with 6 (No such device or address). /bin/dmesg may provide additional information. Fatal: No CONFIG_PERF_EVENTS=y kernel support configured? The problem is that until 2.6.37 (behavior changed with commit b0a873e) perf on PPC returns ENXIO when hw_perf_event_init() fails. With this patch we get the expected behavior: $ perf record -ag -fo /tmp/perf.data -v -- sleep 1 Old kernel, cannot exclude guest or host samples. The cycles event is not supported, trying to fall back to cpu-clock-ticks [ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ] [ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.151 MB /tmp/perf.data (~6592 samples) ] Signed-off-by: David Ahern Cc: Peter Zijlstra Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1336490937-57106-1-git-send-email-dsahern@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo --- Reading git-format-patch failed