[PATCH 1/2] perf record: fix fallback to cpu-clock on ppc

[David Ahern]

perf-record on PPC is not falling back to cpu-clock:

$ perf record -ag -fo /tmp/perf.data -- sleep 1

  Error: sys_perf_event_open() syscall returned with 6 (No such device or address).  /bin/dmesg may provide additional information.

  Fatal: No CONFIG_PERF_EVENTS=y kernel support configured?

The problem is that until 2.6.37 (behavior changed with commit b0a873e)
perf on PPC returns ENXIO when hw_perf_event_init() fails. With this
patch we get the expected behavior:

$ perf record -ag -fo /tmp/perf.data -v -- sleep 1
Old kernel, cannot exclude guest or host samples.
The cycles event is not supported, trying to fall back to cpu-clock-ticks
[ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ]
[ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.151 MB /tmp/perf.data (~6592 samples) ]

Signed-off-by: David Ahern <dsahern@xxxxxxxxx>
---
 tools/perf/builtin-record.c |    8 ++++++--
 1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-record.c b/tools/perf/builtin-record.c
index 42e2414..1a9098c 100644
--- a/tools/perf/builtin-record.c
+++ b/tools/perf/builtin-record.c
@@ -242,9 +242,13 @@ try_again:
 			/*
 			 * If it's cycles then fall back to hrtimer
 			 * based cpu-clock-tick sw counter, which
-			 * is always available even if no PMU support:
+			 * is always available even if no PMU support.
+			 *
+			 * PPC returns ENXIO until 2.6.37 (behavior changed
+			 * with commit b0a873e).
 			 */
-			if (err == ENOENT && attr->type == PERF_TYPE_HARDWARE
+			if ((err == ENOENT || err == ENXIO)
+					&& attr->type == PERF_TYPE_HARDWARE
 					&& attr->config == PERF_COUNT_HW_CPU_CYCLES) {
 
 				if (verbose)
-- 
1.7.5.4

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