Re: perf user tool precise attribute broken in 3.5rc1+

From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
Date: Thu Jun 07 2012 - 17:28:05 EST


Em Thu, Jun 07, 2012 at 10:58:36PM +0200, Andi Kleen escreveu:
> On Thu, Jun 07, 2012 at 10:53:19PM +0200, Stephane Eranian wrote:
> > On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 10:23 PM, Andi Kleen <andi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > > With a perf user tool compiled from a 3.5rc1+ kernel I cannot
> > > use the 'p' attribute anymore. Always get
> > >
> > > ak@petrock:~> ./perf record -e cycles:p ./t
> > >
> > >  Error: sys_perf_event_open() syscall returned with 22 (Invalid argument).  /bin/dmesg may provide additional information.
> > >
> > >  Fatal: No CONFIG_PERF_EVENTS=y kernel support configured?
> > >
> > Remember that PEBS is disabled on SNB unless you have the new ucode + my patch.
>
> This is not the problem. This was actually a -E where it was not disabled
> in my tree. And the older perf binary works, so it's clearly not a kernel
> problem.

Are you sure the old one works? Perhaps it silently falls back to
cpu-clock?

What 'perf evlist -v' says?

- Arnaldo
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