Re: perf error codes

[stephane eranian]

Hi,

On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 8:41 AM, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi Stephane, Vince,
>
> Linus recently expressed dislike of our -ENOSPC usage for indicating the
> pmu is 'full'. Do either of your projects (libpfm, libpapi resp.) rely
> on this particular error code for this condition?
>
libpfm does not make perf syscalls. It would not be impacted
by a change in the error code.

I wonder what other meaningful code you might be able to use, though.

Thanks for asking.


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