diff options
| author |  Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
| 2012-02-09 23:20:59 +0100 |
|---|---|---|
| committer |  Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
| 2012-03-05 14:55:42 +0100 |
| commit | 2481c5fa6db0237e4f0168f88913178b2b495b7c (patch) | |
| tree | 4d0e8e9616c8e83ca2a72abbc3ac94621adc49be /arch/alpha | |
| parent | perf/x86: Add LBR software filter support for Intel CPUs (diff) | |
| download | linux-2481c5fa6db0237e4f0168f88913178b2b495b7c.tar.gz linux-2481c5fa6db0237e4f0168f88913178b2b495b7c.tar.bz2 linux-2481c5fa6db0237e4f0168f88913178b2b495b7c.zip | |
perf: Disable PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_* when not supported
PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_* is disabled for:
- SW events (sw counters, tracepoints)
- HW breakpoints
- ALL but Intel x86 architecture
- AMD64 processors
Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1328826068-11713-10-git-send-email-eranian@google.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/alpha')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/alpha/kernel/perf_event.c | 4 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/alpha/kernel/perf_event.c b/arch/alpha/kernel/perf_event.c index 8143cd7cdbfb..0dae252f7a33 100644 --- a/arch/alpha/kernel/perf_event.c +++ b/arch/alpha/kernel/perf_event.c @@ -685,6 +685,10 @@ static int alpha_pmu_event_init(struct perf_event *event) { int err; + /* does not support taken branch sampling */ + if (has_branch_stack(event)) + return -EOPNOTSUPP; + switch (event->attr.type) { case PERF_TYPE_RAW: case PERF_TYPE_HARDWARE: |