On Thu, 9 Jan 2014, Will Deacon wrote: > I'd rather see it in the generic code if at all possible. Maybe we could add > a flags field to perf_pmu_register?
I can look into adding the check in generic code. In the meantime, would you consider a patch like this that disables the IRQ check and lets ARM devices missing an IRQ (such as the rasp-pi) still have access to the counters? diff --git a/arch/arm/kernel/perf_event_cpu.c b/arch/arm/kernel/perf_event_cpu.c index d85055c..ff1a752 100644 --- a/arch/arm/kernel/perf_event_cpu.c +++ b/arch/arm/kernel/perf_event_cpu.c @@ -97,8 +97,8 @@ static int cpu_pmu_request_irq(struct arm_pmu *cpu_pmu, irq_handler_t handler) irqs = min(pmu_device->num_resources, num_possible_cpus()); if (irqs < 1) { - pr_err("no irqs for PMUs defined\n"); - return -ENODEV; + printk_once("no irqs for PMUs defined, sampling events not supported\n"); + return 0; } for (i = 0; i < irqs; ++i) { -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/