As of now, bpf counters (bperf) don't support event groups. But the
default perf stat includes topdown metrics if supported (on recent Intel
machines) which require groups. That makes perf stat exiting.
$ sudo perf stat --bpf-counter true
bpf managed perf events do not yet support groups.
Actually the test explicitly uses cycles event only, but it missed to
pass the option when it checks the availability of the command.
Fixes: 2c0cb9f56020d ("perf test: Add a shell test for 'perf stat --bpf-counters' new option")
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: Song Liu <song@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
tools/perf/tests/shell/stat_bpf_counters.sh | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/tools/perf/tests/shell/stat_bpf_counters.sh b/tools/perf/tests/shell/stat_bpf_counters.sh
index 513cd1e58e0e..a87bb2814b4c 100755
--- a/tools/perf/tests/shell/stat_bpf_counters.sh
+++ b/tools/perf/tests/shell/stat_bpf_counters.sh
@@ -22,10 +22,10 @@ compare_number()
}
# skip if --bpf-counters is not supported
-if ! perf stat --bpf-counters true > /dev/null 2>&1; then
+if ! perf stat -e cycles --bpf-counters true > /dev/null 2>&1; then
if [ "$1" = "-v" ]; then
echo "Skipping: --bpf-counters not supported"
- perf --no-pager stat --bpf-counters true || true
+ perf --no-pager stat -e cycles --bpf-counters true || true
fi
exit 2
fi
--
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