Re: [PATCH v3 0/7] perf: Add ioctl for PMU driver configuration

[Kim Phillips <kim.phillips@arm.com>]

On Tue, 14 Aug 2018 10:15:56 -0600
Mathieu Poirier <mathieu.poirier@linaro.org> wrote:

> On Mon, 13 Aug 2018 at 11:46, Kim Phillips <kim.phillips@arm.com> wrote:
> > It yields success for the --per-thread case..:
> >
> > $ sudo taskset -c 0 ./perf record -e cs_etm/@20010000.etf/ --per-thread uname -a
> > Linux juno 4.18.0-rc8-00011-gb82af52c4b35-dirty #147 SMP PREEMPT Thu Aug 9 11:20:37 CDT 2018 aarch64 GNU/Linux
> > [ perf record: Woken up 0 times to write data ]
> > Warning:
> > AUX data lost 1 times out of 2!
> >
> > [ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.067 MB perf.data ]
> > $
> >
> > ..but not for CPU-wide?:
> >
> > $ sudo taskset -c 0 ./perf record -e cs_etm/@20010000.etf/ uname -a
> > failed to mmap with 12 (Cannot allocate memory)
> > $ sudo taskset -c 0 ./perf record -e cs_etm/@20010000.etf/ -C 0 uname -a
> > failed to mmap with 12 (Cannot allocate memory)
> > $
> 
> This patchset is getting very old and a fair amount of things have
> changed since then.  I'm hoping to be coming out with a new one
> shortly.  Nonetheless the above is returning an error in CPU-wide
> scenarios while the feature is being implemented.  Isn't what you
> requested or have I misunderstood your comment?

No, sigh, I just automatically assumed the patchset would include
CPU-wide support again.  If it were being done that way, we'd all know
that the feature(s) this patchset adds would be doing the right thing
for that purpose, guaranteed.

The other thing that's going on here is that I'm becoming numb to the
loathsome "failed to mmap with 12 (Cannot allocate memory)" being
returned no matter what the error is/was.  E.g., an error that would
indicate a sense of non-implementation would be much better
appreciated than presumably what the above is doing, i.e., returning
-ENOMEM.  That, backed up with specific details in the form of human
readable text in dmesg would be *most* welcome.

Thanks,

Kim