Re: [PATCH] perf stat: Ignore error thread when enabling system-wide --per-thread

[Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>]

On Mon, Jan 22, 2018 at 01:10:31PM +0800, Jin, Yao wrote:
> 
> 
> On 1/16/2018 9:17 PM, Jiri Olsa wrote:
> > On Tue, Jan 16, 2018 at 09:06:09PM +0800, Jin, Yao wrote:
> > > Just tested. But looks it's not OK for '--per-thread' case.
> > 
> > yea, I haven't tested much.. might need soem tweaking,
> > but my point was that it could be doable on one place
> > instead of introducing another if possible
> > 
> > jirka
> > 
> 
> Hi Jiri,
> 
> I ever considered to move the operation of removing error thread to
> perf_evsel__fallback(). The perf_evsel__fallback() is common code and it's
> shared by perf report, perf stat and perf top.
> 
> While finally I think it'd better let the caller decide to remove error
> thread and try again, or just return the warning message.
> perf_evsel__fallback() probably doesn't know what the caller want to do.
> 
> That's my current thinking. Maybe there will be a better fix...

ok, can't think of better fix atm.. looks good ;-)

Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>

thanks,
jirka