Re: [patch 11/11] perf_event_open.2: add possibility of EBUSY error

From: Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
Date: Wed Oct 14 2015 - 02:47:48 EST


On 07/23/2015 07:16 PM, Vince Weaver wrote:
>
> Linux 4.1 added the possibility of perf_event_open() returning
> EBUSY if an existing exclusive event controls the PMU.

Thanks, Vince. Applied.

Cheers,

Michael


> This was introduced by the following commit:
>
> commit bed5b25ad9c8a2f5d735ef0bc746ec870c01c1b0
> Author: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Fri Jan 30 12:31:06 2015 +0200
>
> perf: Add a pmu capability for "exclusive" events
>
> Signed-off-by: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Kaixu Xia <kaixu.xia@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@xxxxxx>
> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Robert Richter <rric@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: acme@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Cc: adrian.hunter@xxxxxxxxx
> Cc: kan.liang@xxxxxxxxx
> Cc: markus.t.metzger@xxxxxxxxx
> Cc: mathieu.poirier@xxxxxxxxxx
>
> Signed-off-by: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> diff --git a/man2/perf_event_open.2 b/man2/perf_event_open.2
> index b3cd93f..3d03786 100644
> --- a/man2/perf_event_open.2
> +++ b/man2/perf_event_open.2
> @@ -2911,6 +2911,11 @@ the cgroup file descriptor in
> .I pid
> is not valid.
> .TP
> +.BR EBUSY " (since Linux 4.1)"
> +.\" bed5b25ad9c8a2f5d735ef0bc746ec870c01c1b0
> +Returned if another event already has exclusive
> +access to the PMU.
> +.TP
> .B EFAULT
> Returned if the
> .I attr
>


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