[PATCH 1/2] perf stat: Failure with "Operation not supported"

[Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo]

From: Anton Blanchard <anton@xxxxxxxxx>

perf stat is failing on PowerPC:

  Error: open_counter returned with 95 (Operation not supported). /bin/dmesg may provide additional information.

  Fatal: Not all events could be opened.

commit 370faf1dd046 (perf stat: Fail softly on unsupported events)
added a check for failure returning ENOENT, but the POWER backend
returns EOPNOTSUPP. It looks like alpha, blackfin and mips do the
same.

With the patch applied, things work as expected:

 Performance counter stats for '/bin/true':

          0.362176 task-clock                #    0.623 CPUs utilized
                 0 context-switches          #    0.000 M/sec
                 0 CPU-migrations            #    0.000 M/sec
                28 page-faults               #    0.077 M/sec
         1,677,020 cycles                    #    4.630 GHz
   <not supported> stalled-cycles-frontend
   <not supported> stalled-cycles-backend
           431,220 instructions              #    0.26  insns per cycle
           101,889 branches                  #  281.325 M/sec
             4,145 branch-misses             #    4.07% of all branches

       0.000581361 seconds time elapsed

Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@xxxxxxxxx>
Link: 20111202093833.5fef7226@kryten">http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20111202093833.5fef7226@kryten
Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
 tools/perf/builtin-stat.c |    3 ++-
 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-stat.c b/tools/perf/builtin-stat.c
index 7d98676..955930e 100644
--- a/tools/perf/builtin-stat.c
+++ b/tools/perf/builtin-stat.c
@@ -463,7 +463,8 @@ static int run_perf_stat(int argc __used, const char **argv)
 
 	list_for_each_entry(counter, &evsel_list->entries, node) {
 		if (create_perf_stat_counter(counter, first) < 0) {
-			if (errno == EINVAL || errno == ENOSYS || errno == ENOENT) {
+			if (errno == EINVAL || errno == ENOSYS ||
+			    errno == ENOENT || errno == EOPNOTSUPP) {
 				if (verbose)
 					ui__warning("%s event is not supported by the kernel.\n",
 						    event_name(counter));
-- 
1.7.8.rc0.35.gee6df

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