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From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
To: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	tglx@linutronix.de, jolsa@redhat.com, eranian@google.com,
	torvalds@linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	john.stultz@linaro.org, hpa@zytor.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
	mingo@kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] perf, record: Add clockid parameter
Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2015 17:15:34 -0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150327201534.GD6291@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <551594DD.7050705@gmail.com>

Em Fri, Mar 27, 2015 at 11:35:25AM -0600, David Ahern escreveu:
> On 3/27/15 11:20 AM, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> >>This is a new feature which means use_clockid on older kernels will fail. So
> >>need to catch that and throw an error -- perhaps yet another probe function.

> >How does that work? What do I grep to find an example? I figured if the
> >kernel didn't support the syscall will fail and we'll terminate
> >someplace.

> Look at __perf_evsel__open(). In this case you probably do not want
> to fallback but tell the user the clock id option is not supported.
> The problem is deciphering the failure is due to the clock id versus
> all the other failure reasons.

I.e. we're back to the sys_perf_event_open() error reporting suckz rockz
thing, this time with PeterZ trying to find a way to avoid getting back
to that discussion... /me runz... ;-P

- Arnaldo

  reply	other threads:[~2015-03-27 22:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <tip-34f439278cef7b1177f8ce24f9fc81dfc6221d3b@git.kernel.org>
2015-03-27 14:32 ` [PATCH] perf, record: Add clockid parameter Peter Zijlstra
2015-03-27 17:11   ` David Ahern
2015-03-27 17:20     ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-03-27 17:35       ` David Ahern
2015-03-27 20:15         ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo [this message]
2015-03-27 21:59           ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-03-27 22:37             ` Stephane Eranian
2015-03-28  7:55               ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-03-30  1:00                 ` David Ahern
2015-03-30  8:24                   ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-03-30 17:11                     ` David Ahern
2015-03-30  9:17                 ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-03-30 17:17                   ` David Ahern
2015-03-30 19:32                     ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-03-30 19:39                       ` David Ahern
2015-03-30 17:24                 ` David Ahern
2015-03-30 19:33                   ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-03-30 19:41                     ` David Ahern
2015-03-30 19:43                       ` Stephane Eranian
2015-03-31  8:19                       ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-03-31 10:46                         ` [RFC][PATCH] perf tools: unify perf_event_attr printing Peter Zijlstra
2015-04-01 16:26                           ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-04-01 16:52                             ` Jiri Olsa
2015-04-02  9:01                               ` Adrian Hunter
2015-04-02 11:59                                 ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-04-02 12:54                                   ` Adrian Hunter
2015-04-03 16:11                                   ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2015-04-03 16:14                                     ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2015-04-02  8:12                             ` Ingo Molnar
2015-04-02 22:28                               ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2015-04-02  9:19                             ` Jiri Olsa
2015-03-30 17:33                 ` [PATCH] perf, record: Add clockid parameter David Ahern
2015-03-30 19:34                   ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-03-30 19:46                     ` David Ahern
2015-03-27 23:07           ` Stephane Eranian
2015-03-27 16:31 ` [tip:perf/timer] perf: Add per event clockid support Stephane Eranian
2015-03-27 16:35   ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-03-27 16:52     ` Stephane Eranian
2015-03-27 16:57       ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-03-27 17:00         ` Stephane Eranian

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