The same event as the one you mentionned (I also checked that it's the same 
event than the  one used by perf mem record)

Setting precise-ip to 0 allows me to open the event and then mmap the result, 
but I don't have any sample.

Manu



> Le 29 oct. 2014 à 17:09, Vince Weaver <[email protected]> a écrit :
> 
>> On Wed, 29 Oct 2014, Manuel Selva wrote:
>> 
>> I am trying to setup load latency sampling on a Sandy Bridge processor (Cpu
>> familly 6, model 42, model name  Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-2520M CPU @ 2.50GHz)
>> running a 3.13 linux kernel.
>> 
>> After deep investigations made of reading of the Intel SDM, examples provided
>> by the pfm library and the source code of perf, I am still not able to get
>> sample. I think for now that my problem is related to the precise_ip 
>> parameter
>> of the  perf_event_attr structure.
>> 
>> Any time I change this value from 0 to 1 or from 0 to 2 (2 is the value to
>> enable PEBS isn't it ?) the perf_event_open system call failed with a "Not
>> supported operation" error. Running perf mem record on this Sandy Bridge
>> platform also result in the same error.
> 
> Which event are you trying to use?
> 
> On my Ivybrige machine using 3.14 I am able to get latency values with
>    pe.config=0x1cd;        
>        pe.config1=3;           
>        pe.precise_ip=2;
> 
> Vince
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