[patch 11/11] perf_event_open.2: add possibility of EBUSY error

[patch 11/11] perf_event_open.2: add possibility of EBUSY error

[Vince Weaver]

Linux 4.1 added the possibility of perf_event_open() returning
EBUSY if an existing exclusive event controls the PMU.

This was introduced by the following commit:

	commit bed5b25ad9c8a2f5d735ef0bc746ec870c01c1b0
	Author: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
	Date:   Fri Jan 30 12:31:06 2015 +0200

	perf: Add a pmu capability for "exclusive" events

	Signed-off-by: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
	Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
	Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
	Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
	Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
	Cc: Kaixu Xia <kaixu.xia@linaro.org>
	Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
	Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
	Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
	Cc: Robert Richter <rric@kernel.org>
	Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
	Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
	Cc: acme@infradead.org
	Cc: adrian.hunter@intel.com
	Cc: kan.liang@intel.com
	Cc: markus.t.metzger@intel.com
	Cc: mathieu.poirier@linaro.org

Signed-off-by: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu>

diff --git a/man2/perf_event_open.2 b/man2/perf_event_open.2
index b3cd93f..3d03786 100644
--- a/man2/perf_event_open.2
+++ b/man2/perf_event_open.2
@@ -2911,6 +2911,11 @@ the cgroup file descriptor in
 .I pid
 is not valid.
 .TP
+.BR EBUSY " (since Linux 4.1)"
+.\" bed5b25ad9c8a2f5d735ef0bc746ec870c01c1b0
+Returned if another event already has exclusive
+access to the PMU.
+.TP
 .B EFAULT
 Returned if the
 .I attr

Re: [patch 11/11] perf_event_open.2: add possibility of EBUSY error

[Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)]

On 07/23/2015 07:16 PM, Vince Weaver wrote:
> 
> Linux 4.1 added the possibility of perf_event_open() returning
> EBUSY if an existing exclusive event controls the PMU.

Thanks, Vince. Applied.

Cheers,

Michael


> This was introduced by the following commit:
> 
> 	commit bed5b25ad9c8a2f5d735ef0bc746ec870c01c1b0
> 	Author: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
> 	Date:   Fri Jan 30 12:31:06 2015 +0200
> 
> 	perf: Add a pmu capability for "exclusive" events
> 
> 	Signed-off-by: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
> 	Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
> 	Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
> 	Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
> 	Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
> 	Cc: Kaixu Xia <kaixu.xia@linaro.org>
> 	Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
> 	Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
> 	Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
> 	Cc: Robert Richter <rric@kernel.org>
> 	Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
> 	Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
> 	Cc: acme@infradead.org
> 	Cc: adrian.hunter@intel.com
> 	Cc: kan.liang@intel.com
> 	Cc: markus.t.metzger@intel.com
> 	Cc: mathieu.poirier@linaro.org
> 
> Signed-off-by: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu>
> 
> diff --git a/man2/perf_event_open.2 b/man2/perf_event_open.2
> index b3cd93f..3d03786 100644
> --- a/man2/perf_event_open.2
> +++ b/man2/perf_event_open.2
> @@ -2911,6 +2911,11 @@ the cgroup file descriptor in
>  .I pid
>  is not valid.
>  .TP
> +.BR EBUSY " (since Linux 4.1)"
> +.\" bed5b25ad9c8a2f5d735ef0bc746ec870c01c1b0
> +Returned if another event already has exclusive
> +access to the PMU.
> +.TP
>  .B EFAULT
>  Returned if the
>  .I attr
> 


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