From: Kim Phillips <[email protected]> Help identify to the user the event with the unsupported sampling error. Also suggest a corrective action.
BEFORE: $ sudo ./oldperf record -e armv8_pmuv3/mem_access/,ccn/cycles/,armv8_pmuv3/l2d_cache/ true Error: PMU Hardware doesn't support sampling/overflow-interrupts. AFTER: $ sudo ./newperf record -e armv8_pmuv3/mem_access/,ccn/cycles/,armv8_pmuv3/l2d_cache/ true Error: ccn/cycles/: PMU Hardware doesn't support sampling/overflow-interrupts. Try 'perf stat' Signed-off-by: Kim Phillips <[email protected]> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <[email protected]> Cc: Jiri Olsa <[email protected]> Cc: Namhyung Kim <[email protected]> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected] Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]> --- tools/perf/util/evsel.c | 5 +++-- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/tools/perf/util/evsel.c b/tools/perf/util/evsel.c index cb9bcdb065ea..b8e9def77f44 100644 --- a/tools/perf/util/evsel.c +++ b/tools/perf/util/evsel.c @@ -2745,8 +2745,9 @@ int perf_evsel__open_strerror(struct perf_evsel *evsel, struct target *target, break; case EOPNOTSUPP: if (evsel->attr.sample_period != 0) - return scnprintf(msg, size, "%s", - "PMU Hardware doesn't support sampling/overflow-interrupts."); + return scnprintf(msg, size, + "%s: PMU Hardware doesn't support sampling/overflow-interrupts. Try 'perf stat'", + perf_evsel__name(evsel)); if (evsel->attr.precise_ip) return scnprintf(msg, size, "%s", "\'precise\' request may not be supported. Try removing 'p' modifier."); -- 2.13.6
