Merge branch 'uprobes-v7' of git://git.linaro.org/people/dave.long/linux into devel-stable

This patch series adds basic uprobes support to ARM. It is based on
patches developed earlier by Rabin Vincent. That approach of adding
hooks into the kprobes instruction parsing code was not well received.
This approach separates the ARM instruction parsing code in kprobes out
into a separate set of functions which can be used by both kprobes and
uprobes. Both kprobes and uprobes then provide their own semantic action
tables to process the results of the parsing.

1 files changed, 15 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/tools/perf/util/parse-events.c b/tools/perf/util/parse-events.c
index d248fca6d7ed..1e15df10a88c 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/parse-events.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/parse-events.c
@@ -1091,12 +1091,12 @@ int is_valid_tracepoint(const char *event_string)
 static bool is_event_supported(u8 type, unsigned config)
 {
         bool ret = true;
+        int open_return;
         struct perf_evsel *evsel;
         struct perf_event_attr attr = {
                 .type = type,
                 .config = config,
                 .disabled = 1,
-                .exclude_kernel = 1,
         };
         struct {
                 struct thread_map map;
@@ -1108,7 +1108,20 @@ static bool is_event_supported(u8 type, unsigned config)
 
         evsel = perf_evsel__new(&attr);
         if (evsel) {
-                ret = perf_evsel__open(evsel, NULL, &tmap.map) >= 0;
+                open_return = perf_evsel__open(evsel, NULL, &tmap.map);
+                ret = open_return >= 0;
+
+                if (open_return == -EACCES) {
+                        /*
+                         * This happens if the paranoid value
+                         * /proc/sys/kernel/perf_event_paranoid is set to 2
+                         * Re-run with exclude_kernel set; we don't do that
+                         * by default as some ARM machines do not support it.
+                         *
+                         */
+                        evsel->attr.exclude_kernel = 1;
+                        ret = perf_evsel__open(evsel, NULL, &tmap.map) >= 0;
+                }
                 perf_evsel__delete(evsel);
         }