perf top: Fall back to cpu-clock-tick hrtimer sampling if no cycle counter available
authorIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Sun, 7 Jun 2009 15:31:52 +0000 (17:31 +0200)
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Sun, 7 Jun 2009 15:31:52 +0000 (17:31 +0200)
commit716c69fecacd42f2a304a97158e04af2786a3f65
tree5f86a0ce67ba87595d14a6fd6d5f59f8f7cf1f56
parent743ee1f80434138495bbb95ffb897acf46b51d54
perf top: Fall back to cpu-clock-tick hrtimer sampling if no cycle counter available

On architectures/CPUs without PMU support but with perfcounters
enabled 'perf top' currently fails because it cannot create a
cycle based hw-perfcounter.

Fall back to the cpu-clock-tick sw-perfcounter in this case, which
is hrtimer based and will always work (as long as perfcounters
is enabled).

Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
tools/perf/builtin-top.c
tools/perf/util/usage.c