A per-thread event could not be created correctly like below:
perf record --per-thread -e rB0000 -- sleep 1
Error:
The sys_perf_event_open() syscall returned with 19 (No such device) for event (rB0000).
/bin/dmesg may provide additional information.
No CONFIG_PERF_EVENTS=y kernel support configured?
This bug was introduced by:
commit c311c79799
Author: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Date: Mon May 8 15:56:15 2017 -0700
cpumask: make "nr_cpumask_bits" unsigned
If a per-thread event is not attached to any CPU, the cpu field
in struct perf_event is -1. The above commit converts the CPU number
to unsigned int, which result in an illegal CPU number.
Fixes: c311c79799 ("cpumask: make "nr_cpumask_bits" unsigned")
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # v4.12+
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Pu Hou <bjhoupu@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
fc3100d64f