tools/perf: Handle -EOPNOTSUPP for sampling events

[cascardo/linux.git] / tools / perf / util / evsel.c

diff --git a/tools/perf/util/evsel.c b/tools/perf/util/evsel.c
index 245ac50..8d30cbd 100644 (file)
--- a/tools/perf/util/evsel.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/evsel.c
@@ -2384,6 +2384,9 @@ int perf_evsel__open_strerror(struct perf_evsel *evsel, struct target *target,
         "No such device - did you specify an out-of-range profile CPU?");
                break;
        case EOPNOTSUPP:
+               if (evsel->attr.sample_period != 0)
+                       return scnprintf(msg, size, "%s",
+       "PMU Hardware doesn't support sampling/overflow-interrupts.");
                if (evsel->attr.precise_ip)
                        return scnprintf(msg, size, "%s",
        "\'precise\' request may not be supported. Try removing 'p' modifier.");