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SubjectRe: [PATCHv2 4/5] perf stat: Add -a as a default target
Em Mon, Feb 20, 2017 at 09:31:49PM +0100, Borislav Petkov escreveu:
> Btw, I received your mail just now - probably greylisting...
>
> On Mon, Feb 20, 2017 at 10:44:33AM -0300, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote:
> > Isn't this confusing, i.e. people runnin 'tool workload' can be lead to
> > think that the events reported took place just when the workload was
> > running, i.e. on the same cpu and while it was being scheduled?
>
> That's a good point.
>
> > I understand the desire to avoid asking people to use -a, i.e. if it
> > only makes sense as system wide, hey, do it as system wide, but can't
> > this be confusing?
>
> Well, I did
>
> tool workload
>
> and it said <not supported>. Now, if I'm the only one to stare puzzled

Well, this one should be read (and written in the tool output as):

<not supported in workload only mode, try system wide, using -a>

> at this and wonder why it says "not supported", then sure, I know now
> that I should use -a.
>
> But if other users are as confused as me, you probably want to tell them
> to try -a too, no?
>
> IOW, we probably could extend my other patch which says that people
> should try to disable the HW NMI watchdog to say "try using -a for
> uncore-only events" when it detects <not supported>.

Right, the ENOTSUPP in this case needs to be properly expanded into
something meaningful, as suggested above.

>
> Thoughts?
>
> --
> Regards/Gruss,
> Boris.
>
> Good mailing practices for 400: avoid top-posting and trim the reply.

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