From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Subject: [PATCH 16/22] perf intel-pt: Fix error with config term "pt=0" Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2018 15:26:46 -0300 Message-ID: <20181130182652.23620-17-acme@kernel.org> References: <20181130182652.23620-1-acme@kernel.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20181130182652.23620-1-acme@kernel.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Ingo Molnar Cc: Clark Williams , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-perf-users@vger.kernel.org, Adrian Hunter , Jiri Olsa , Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo List-Id: linux-perf-users.vger.kernel.org From: Adrian Hunter Users should never use 'pt=0', but if they do it may give a meaningless error: $ perf record -e intel_pt/pt=0/u uname Error: The sys_perf_event_open() syscall returned with 22 (Invalid argument) for event (intel_pt/pt=0/u). Fix that by forcing 'pt=1'. Committer testing: # perf record -e intel_pt/pt=0/u uname Error: The sys_perf_event_open() syscall returned with 22 (Invalid argument) for event (intel_pt/pt=0/u). /bin/dmesg | grep -i perf may provide additional information. # perf record -e intel_pt/pt=0/u uname pt=0 doesn't make sense, forcing pt=1 Linux [ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ] [ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.020 MB perf.data ] # Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Cc: Jiri Olsa Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/b7c5b4e5-9497-10e5-fd43-5f3e4a0fe51d@intel.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo --- tools/perf/arch/x86/util/intel-pt.c | 11 +++++++++++ 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+) diff --git a/tools/perf/arch/x86/util/intel-pt.c b/tools/perf/arch/x86/util/intel-pt.c index db0ba8caf5a2..ba8ecaf52200 100644 --- a/tools/perf/arch/x86/util/intel-pt.c +++ b/tools/perf/arch/x86/util/intel-pt.c @@ -524,10 +524,21 @@ static int intel_pt_validate_config(struct perf_pmu *intel_pt_pmu, struct perf_evsel *evsel) { int err; + char c; if (!evsel) return 0; + /* + * If supported, force pass-through config term (pt=1) even if user + * sets pt=0, which avoids senseless kernel errors. + */ + if (perf_pmu__scan_file(intel_pt_pmu, "format/pt", "%c", &c) == 1 && + !(evsel->attr.config & 1)) { + pr_warning("pt=0 doesn't make sense, forcing pt=1\n"); + evsel->attr.config |= 1; + } + err = intel_pt_val_config_term(intel_pt_pmu, "caps/cycle_thresholds", "cyc_thresh", "caps/psb_cyc", evsel->attr.config); -- 2.19.1