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From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>
To: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
	David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
	Stephane Eranian <eranian@gmail.com>,
	Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: perf/ftrace: does PERF_EVENT_IOC_SET_FILTER serve any purpose?
Date: Tue, 9 Jun 2015 17:11:34 -0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150609201134.GJ3136@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.20.1506091605350.9662@vincent-weaver-1.umelst.maine.edu>

Em Tue, Jun 09, 2015 at 04:07:01PM -0400, Vince Weaver escreveu:
> On Tue, 9 Jun 2015, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> 
> > What kernel are you using? You may need to update perf.
> > 
> > We switched to a tracefs filesystem, but the old perf wont read any
> > events if it's not located in debugfs. That is, it actually tested
> > which filesystem the event files were mounted on, and if they didn't
> > match the debugfs mount type, it ignored them. That was fixed recently.
> 
> I am running 4.1-rc7 and was trying to use perf_4.0.
> 
> If I use the kernel's version of perf it works.
> 
> sigh.

Indeed, its always a shame when that happens, I had a similar reaction
when Steven told it was validating the filesystem type, completely
unnecessary, has been there for a long time :-\

Date:   Tue Jul 21 12:20:22 2009 -0400

    perf_counter: Add tracepoint support to perf list, perf stat

- Arnaldo

  reply	other threads:[~2015-06-09 20:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-06-09 18:30 perf/ftrace: does PERF_EVENT_IOC_SET_FILTER serve any purpose? Vince Weaver
2015-06-09 19:25 ` David Ahern
2015-06-09 19:51   ` Vince Weaver
2015-06-09 19:49     ` David Ahern
2015-06-09 20:02       ` Vince Weaver
2015-06-09 19:59         ` David Ahern
2015-06-09 20:18           ` Vince Weaver
2015-06-09 19:55     ` Steven Rostedt
2015-06-09 20:07       ` Vince Weaver
2015-06-09 20:11         ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo [this message]
2015-06-10  6:51       ` Ingo Molnar

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