perf evsel: Do missing feature fallbacks in just one place

Instead of doing it in stat, top, record or any other tool that opens
event descriptors.

Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-vr8hzph83d5t2mdlkf565h84@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 27 deletions

diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-stat.c b/tools/perf/builtin-stat.c
index c12655af2b88..ef067c193f93 100644
--- a/tools/perf/builtin-stat.c
+++ b/tools/perf/builtin-stat.c
@@ -132,8 +132,6 @@ static struct stats walltime_nsecs_stats;
 static int create_perf_stat_counter(struct perf_evsel *evsel)
 {
         struct perf_event_attr *attr = &evsel->attr;
-        bool exclude_guest_missing = false;
-        int ret;
 
         if (scale)
                 attr->read_format = PERF_FORMAT_TOTAL_TIME_ENABLED |
@@ -141,16 +139,8 @@ static int create_perf_stat_counter(struct perf_evsel *evsel)
 
         attr->inherit = !no_inherit;
 
-retry:
-        if (exclude_guest_missing)
-                evsel->attr.exclude_guest = evsel->attr.exclude_host = 0;
-
-        if (perf_target__has_cpu(&target)) {
-                ret = perf_evsel__open_per_cpu(evsel, perf_evsel__cpus(evsel));
-                if (ret)
-                        goto check_ret;
-                return 0;
-        }
+        if (perf_target__has_cpu(&target))
+                return perf_evsel__open_per_cpu(evsel, perf_evsel__cpus(evsel));
 
         if (!perf_target__has_task(&target) &&
             perf_evsel__is_group_leader(evsel)) {
@@ -158,21 +148,7 @@ retry:
                 attr->enable_on_exec = 1;
         }
 
-        ret = perf_evsel__open_per_thread(evsel, evsel_list->threads);
-        if (!ret)
-                return 0;
-        /* fall through */
-check_ret:
-        if (ret && errno == EINVAL) {
-                if (!exclude_guest_missing &&
-                    (evsel->attr.exclude_guest || evsel->attr.exclude_host)) {
-                        pr_debug("Old kernel, cannot exclude "
-                                 "guest or host samples.\n");
-                        exclude_guest_missing = true;
-                        goto retry;
-                }
-        }
-        return ret;
+        return perf_evsel__open_per_thread(evsel, evsel_list->threads);
 }
 
 /*