From a1396555abff9ff9b74c2e4da13e27e81fd094b2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Vineet Gupta Date: Mon, 9 May 2016 15:07:40 +0530 Subject: [PATCH] perf/abi: Change the errno for sampling event not supported in hardware Change the return code for sampling event not supported from -ENOTSUPP to -EOPNOTSUPP. This allows userspace to identify this case specifically, instead of printing the catch-all error message it did previously. Technically this is an ABI change, but we think we can get away with it. Old behavior: ------- | # perf record ls | Error: | The sys_perf_event_open() syscall returned with 524 (Unknown error 524) | for event (cycles:ppp). | /bin/dmesg may provide additional information. | No CONFIG_PERF_EVENTS=y kernel support configured? New behavior: ------- | # perf record ls | Error: | PMU Hardware doesn't support sampling/overflow-interrupts. Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Cc: Cc: Cc: Cc: Alexander Shishkin Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Stephane Eranian Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Vince Weaver Cc: Vineet Gupta Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1462786660-2900-3-git-send-email-vgupta@synopsys.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- kernel/events/core.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/kernel/events/core.c b/kernel/events/core.c index f94f164b5054..5d48306879d5 100644 --- a/kernel/events/core.c +++ b/kernel/events/core.c @@ -9309,7 +9309,7 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE5(perf_event_open, if (is_sampling_event(event)) { if (event->pmu->capabilities & PERF_PMU_CAP_NO_INTERRUPT) { - err = -ENOTSUPP; + err = -EOPNOTSUPP; goto err_alloc; } } -- 2.20.1