We need to fail the event ID retrieval in case both following
conditions are true:
  - we are on kernel with no PERF_EVENT_IOC_ID support
  - PERF_FORMAT_GROUP read format is set

Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jo...@redhat.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <a...@ghostprotocols.net>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijls...@chello.nl>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mi...@elte.hu>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <pau...@samba.org>
Cc: Corey Ashford <cjash...@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweis...@gmail.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhy...@kernel.org>
---
 tools/perf/util/evlist.c | 7 +++++++
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)

diff --git a/tools/perf/util/evlist.c b/tools/perf/util/evlist.c
index b1c8f35..b7c64c3 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/evlist.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/evlist.c
@@ -302,6 +302,13 @@ static int perf_evlist__id_add_fd(struct perf_evlist 
*evlist,
                u64 read_data[4] = { 0, };
                int id_idx = 1; /* The first entry is the counter value */
 
+               /*
+                * This way does not work with group format read, so bail
+                * out in that case.
+                */
+               if (perf_evlist__read_format(evlist) & PERF_FORMAT_GROUP)
+                       return -1;
+
                if (!(evsel->attr.read_format & PERF_FORMAT_ID) ||
                    read(fd, &read_data, sizeof(read_data)) == -1)
                        return -1;
-- 
1.7.11.4

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