perf stat: Additional verbose details for <not supported> events
authorIan Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Sun, 5 Oct 2025 18:14:21 +0000 (11:14 -0700)
committerNamhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Mon, 13 Oct 2025 08:58:51 +0000 (01:58 -0700)
commit12690401a4393238c391b7a6a861a28d26374013
tree96eeaf5e4feb5ad4d027a82d7fe4e42014a5e33d
parent4b5dafe616a5553f377a5f96bd02a191187eba86
perf stat: Additional verbose details for <not supported> events

If an event shows as "<not supported>" in perf stat output, in verbose
mode add the strerror output to help diagnose the issue.

Consider:
```
$ perf stat -e cycles,data_read,instructions true

 Performance counter stats for 'true':

           357,457      cycles:u
   <not supported> MiB  data_read:u
           156,182      instructions:u                   #    0.44  insn per cycle

       0.001250315 seconds time elapsed

       0.001283000 seconds user
       0.000000000 seconds sys
```

To understand why the data_read uncore event failed you can run it
again with -v option.  This change adds detailed message about the
error and suggestion how to fix it potentially.

  Warning:
  data_read:u event is not supported by the kernel.
  Invalid event (data_read:u) in per-thread mode, enable system wide with '-a'.

Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
[ simplified the commit message ]
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
tools/perf/builtin-stat.c