From 5a3446bc648d86a99a895e93d28d7df00bbbfb3c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: David Ahern Date: Sun, 9 Jan 2011 11:21:12 -0700 Subject: perf stat: better error message for unsupported events For unsupported events (e.g., H/W events when running in a VM) perf stat currently fails with the error message: Error: open_counter returned with 2 (No such file or directory). /bin/dmesg may provide additional information. Fatal: Not all events could be opened. dmesg is of no help and it is not clear as to why it fails to open the counter. This patch changes the error message to Error: cache-misses event is not supported. Fatal: Not all events could be opened. Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl LPU-Reference: <1294597272-17335-1-git-send-email-daahern@cisco.com> Signed-off-by: David Ahern Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo --- tools/perf/builtin-stat.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) (limited to 'tools/perf') diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-stat.c b/tools/perf/builtin-stat.c index 2dfcb613e66b..c385a63ebfd1 100644 --- a/tools/perf/builtin-stat.c +++ b/tools/perf/builtin-stat.c @@ -316,6 +316,8 @@ static int run_perf_stat(int argc __used, const char **argv) "\t Consider tweaking" " /proc/sys/kernel/perf_event_paranoid or running as root.", system_wide ? "system-wide " : ""); + } else if (errno == ENOENT) { + error("%s event is not supported. ", event_name(counter)); } else { error("open_counter returned with %d (%s). " "/bin/dmesg may provide additional information.\n", -- cgit v1.2.3