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Diffstat (limited to 'tools/perf/builtin-top.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | tools/perf/builtin-top.c | 20 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 17 deletions
diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-top.c b/tools/perf/builtin-top.c index 74fca619fc4e..8d41d0b58956 100644 --- a/tools/perf/builtin-top.c +++ b/tools/perf/builtin-top.c @@ -892,6 +892,7 @@ static void perf_top__mmap_read(struct perf_top *top) static void perf_top__start_counters(struct perf_top *top) { + char msg[128]; struct perf_evsel *counter; struct perf_evlist *evlist = top->evlist; struct perf_record_opts *opts = &top->record_opts; @@ -909,25 +910,10 @@ try_again: ui__error_paranoid(); goto out_err; } - /* - * If it's cycles then fall back to hrtimer - * based cpu-clock-tick sw counter, which - * is always available even if no PMU support: - */ - if ((err == ENOENT || err == ENXIO) && - (attr->type == PERF_TYPE_HARDWARE) && - (attr->config == PERF_COUNT_HW_CPU_CYCLES)) { + if (perf_evsel__fallback(counter, err, msg, sizeof(msg))) { if (verbose) - ui__warning("Cycles event not supported,\n" - "trying to fall back to cpu-clock-ticks\n"); - - attr->type = PERF_TYPE_SOFTWARE; - attr->config = PERF_COUNT_SW_CPU_CLOCK; - if (counter->name) { - free(counter->name); - counter->name = NULL; - } + ui__warning("%s\n", msg); goto try_again; } |