Linux 4.1 added the possibility of perf_event_open() returning
EBUSY if an existing exclusive event controls the PMU.
This was introduced by the following commit:
commit
bed5b25ad9c8a2f5d735ef0bc746ec870c01c1b0
Author: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Date: Fri Jan 30 12:31:06 2015 +0200
perf: Add a pmu capability for "exclusive" events
Signed-off-by: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Kaixu Xia <kaixu.xia@linaro.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Robert Richter <rric@kernel.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: acme@infradead.org
Cc: adrian.hunter@intel.com
Cc: kan.liang@intel.com
Cc: markus.t.metzger@intel.com
Cc: mathieu.poirier@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
.I pid
is not valid.
.TP
+.BR EBUSY " (since Linux 4.1)"
+.\" bed5b25ad9c8a2f5d735ef0bc746ec870c01c1b0
+Returned if another event already has exclusive
+access to the PMU.
+.TP
.B EFAULT
Returned if the
.I attr