Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: perf top for arm64? | From | John Garry <> | Date | Tue, 10 Dec 2019 17:17:56 +0000 |
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On 10/12/2019 17:08, Jiri Olsa wrote: > On Tue, Dec 10, 2019 at 04:52:52PM +0000, John Garry wrote: >> On 10/12/2019 16:36, Jiri Olsa wrote: >>> On Tue, Dec 10, 2019 at 04:13:49PM +0000, John Garry wrote: >>>> Hi all, >>>> >>>> I find to my surprise that "perf top" does not work for arm64: >>>> >>>> root@ubuntu:/home/john/linux# tools/perf/perf top >>>> Couldn't read the cpuid for this machine: No such file or directory >>> >> >> Hi Jirka, >> >>> there was recent change that check on cpuid and quits: >>> 608127f73779 perf top: Initialize perf_env->cpuid, needed by the per arch annotation init routine >>> >> >> ok, this is new code. I obviously didn't check the git history... >> >> But, apart from this, there are many other places where get_cpuid() is >> called. I wonder what else we're missing out on, and whether we should still >> add it. > > right, I was just wondering how come vendor events are working for you, > but realized we have get_cpuid_str being called in there ;-) > > I think we should add it as you have it prepared already, > could you post it with bigger changelog that would explain > where it's being used for arm?
ok, I can look to do that.
But, as you know, we still need to fix perf top for other architectures affected.
Thanks, John
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