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perf_event_open.2: Add possibility of EBUSY error
authorVince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu>
Thu, 23 Jul 2015 17:16:55 +0000 (13:16 -0400)
committerMichael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Wed, 14 Oct 2015 06:47:12 +0000 (08:47 +0200)
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>
man2/perf_event_open.2

index d910898647f1cfed96482073bcd1c09d99065c9e..fc7481f2da8458867b864d17fba6ec6aa863b3bd 100644 (file)
@@ -2911,6 +2911,11 @@ the cgroup file descriptor in
 .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