perf evsel: Introduce event fallback method
The only fallback right now is for HW cpu-cycles -> SW cpu-clock, that
was done in the same way in both 'top' and 'record'.
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-58l1mgibh9oa9m0pd3fasxa5@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-record.c b/tools/perf/builtin-record.c
index a4b9726..b8d0a39 100644
--- a/tools/perf/builtin-record.c
+++ b/tools/perf/builtin-record.c
@@ -224,6 +224,7 @@
static int perf_record__open(struct perf_record *rec)
{
+ char msg[128];
struct perf_evsel *pos;
struct perf_evlist *evlist = rec->evlist;
struct perf_session *session = rec->session;
@@ -249,27 +250,9 @@
goto out;
}
- /*
- * If it's cycles then fall back to hrtimer
- * based cpu-clock-tick sw counter, which
- * is always available even if no PMU support.
- *
- * PPC returns ENXIO until 2.6.37 (behavior changed
- * with commit b0a873e).
- */
- if ((err == ENOENT || err == ENXIO)
- && attr->type == PERF_TYPE_HARDWARE
- && attr->config == PERF_COUNT_HW_CPU_CYCLES) {
-
+ if (perf_evsel__fallback(pos, err, msg, sizeof(msg))) {
if (verbose)
- ui__warning("The cycles event is not supported, "
- "trying to fall back to cpu-clock-ticks\n");
- attr->type = PERF_TYPE_SOFTWARE;
- attr->config = PERF_COUNT_SW_CPU_CLOCK;
- if (pos->name) {
- free(pos->name);
- pos->name = NULL;
- }
+ ui__warning("%s\n", msg);
goto try_again;
}