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perf record: Use sw counter only if hw pmu is not detected
authorRobert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
Thu, 5 Apr 2012 16:26:28 +0000 (18:26 +0200)
committerArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Wed, 11 Apr 2012 20:39:19 +0000 (17:39 -0300)
commit708aaf8d476fb284a5feb0af85997dc0c68bf51d
treeece2e7d0e2c19ea5a3d0ec172ad0b81a8a19021d
parent925e69617854841ac894a2b44e0b8db5fdd0e98e
perf record: Use sw counter only if hw pmu is not detected

Use cpu-clock-tick sw counter for cpu-cycles only if there is no hw
pmu available. This is the case if the syscall reports ENOENT. In
other cases (e.g. invalid attributes) we don't want the sw counter to
be used.

Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1333643188-26895-5-git-send-email-robert.richter@amd.com
Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
tools/perf/builtin-record.c