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authorJin Yao <[email protected]>2018-01-16 23:43:08 +0800
committerArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>2018-02-27 11:29:21 -0300
commitab6c79b819f5a50cf41a11ebec17bef63b530333 (patch)
tree9124764bf20e56d0267d4453777f2d924a2a5dc8 /tools/perf/scripts/python/intel-pt-events.py
parent853745f5e6d95faaae6381c9a01dbd43de992fb3 (diff)
perf stat: Ignore error thread when enabling system-wide --per-thread
If we execute 'perf stat --per-thread' with non-root account (even set kernel.perf_event_paranoid = -1 yet), it reports the error: jinyao@skl:~$ perf stat --per-thread Error: You may not have permission to collect system-wide stats. Consider tweaking /proc/sys/kernel/perf_event_paranoid, which controls use of the performance events system by unprivileged users (without CAP_SYS_ADMIN). The current value is 2: -1: Allow use of (almost) all events by all users Ignore mlock limit after perf_event_mlock_kb without CAP_IPC_LOCK >= 0: Disallow ftrace function tracepoint by users without CAP_SYS_ADMIN Disallow raw tracepoint access by users without CAP_SYS_ADMIN >= 1: Disallow CPU event access by users without CAP_SYS_ADMIN >= 2: Disallow kernel profiling by users without CAP_SYS_ADMIN To make this setting permanent, edit /etc/sysctl.conf too, e.g.: kernel.perf_event_paranoid = -1 Perhaps the ptrace rule doesn't allow to trace some processes. But anyway the global --per-thread mode had better ignore such errors and continue working on other threads. This patch will record the index of error thread in perf_evsel__open() and remove this thread before retrying. For example (run with non-root, kernel.perf_event_paranoid isn't set): jinyao@skl:~$ perf stat --per-thread ^C Performance counter stats for 'system wide': vmstat-3458 6.171984 cpu-clock:u (msec) # 0.000 CPUs utilized perf-3670 0.515599 cpu-clock:u (msec) # 0.000 CPUs utilized vmstat-3458 1,163,643 cycles:u # 0.189 GHz perf-3670 40,881 cycles:u # 0.079 GHz vmstat-3458 1,410,238 instructions:u # 1.21 insn per cycle perf-3670 3,536 instructions:u # 0.09 insn per cycle vmstat-3458 288,937 branches:u # 46.814 M/sec perf-3670 936 branches:u # 1.815 M/sec vmstat-3458 15,195 branch-misses:u # 5.26% of all branches perf-3670 76 branch-misses:u # 8.12% of all branches 12.651675247 seconds time elapsed Signed-off-by: Jin Yao <[email protected]> Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <[email protected]> Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <[email protected]> Cc: Andi Kleen <[email protected]> Cc: Kan Liang <[email protected]> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected] Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
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