From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>,
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>,
Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>,
Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@linux.intel.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>,
Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>,
Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>,
Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>,
Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] perf: Provide status of known PMUs
Date: Thu, 9 Jul 2015 14:42:57 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150709124257.GU19282@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150709123205.GA9496@gmail.com>
On Thu, Jul 09, 2015 at 02:32:05PM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>
> perf record error: The 'bts' PMU is not available, because the CPU does not support it
This one makes sense.
> perf record error: The 'bts' PMU is not available, because this architecture does not support it
> perf record error: The 'bts' PMU is not available, because its driver is not built into the kernel
>
> Because if it's the wrong architecture or CPU, I look for a box with the right
> one, if it's simply the kernel not having the necessary PMU driver then I'll boot
> a kernel with it enabled.
These not so much; why won't a generic: "Unknown PMU, check arch/kernel"
do?
The thing is, I hate that hard-coded list, its pain I don't need.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-07-09 12:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-07-09 7:48 [RFC PATCH] perf: Provide status of known PMUs Adrian Hunter
2015-07-09 8:10 ` Ingo Molnar
2015-07-09 8:44 ` Adrian Hunter
2015-07-09 8:50 ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-07-09 9:26 ` Ingo Molnar
2015-07-09 11:59 ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-07-09 12:32 ` Ingo Molnar
2015-07-09 12:42 ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2015-07-09 14:47 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2015-07-10 8:35 ` Ingo Molnar
2015-07-10 18:59 ` Stephane Eranian
2015-07-09 9:30 ` Adrian Hunter
2015-07-09 11:44 ` Peter Zijlstra
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