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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.

  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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