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From: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
To: Milian Wolff <mail@milianw.de>
Cc: linux-perf-users@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: perf mem: invalid or unsupported event: 'cpu/mem-loads/pp'
Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2013 11:46:49 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1374544009.5545.2.camel@concordia> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6210395.6gJQB6qfUl@minime>

On Mon, 2013-07-22 at 19:34 +0200, Milian Wolff wrote:
> Hey there,
> 
> I just found perf mem in the output of perf help and wanted to try it:
> 
> $ perf mem record ls
> invalid or unsupported event: 'cpu/mem-loads/pp'
> Run 'perf list' for a list of valid events
> 
>  usage: perf record [<options>] [<command>]
>  ...
> 
> Am I missing a kernel configuration? Or what is going on here?

You need a kernel that has mem-loads in /sys/bus/event_source/devices/cpu/events

Assuming you're on x86 you'll need a 3.10 or later kernel.

cheers

  reply	other threads:[~2013-07-23  1:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-07-22 17:34 perf mem: invalid or unsupported event: 'cpu/mem-loads/pp' Milian Wolff
2013-07-23  1:46 ` Michael Ellerman [this message]
2015-06-14 12:06   ` Milian Wolff

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