From fdeb8e35fd59e79dec385f98eb4b6d2e3398264b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Will Deacon Date: Wed, 4 Jul 2012 18:15:42 +0100 Subject: ARM: 7441/1: perf: return -EOPNOTSUPP if requested mode exclusion is unavailable We currently return -EPERM if the user requests mode exclusion that is not supported by the CPU. This looks pretty confusing from userspace and is inconsistent with other architectures (ppc, x86). This patch returns -EOPNOTSUPP instead. Signed-off-by: Will Deacon Signed-off-by: Russell King --- arch/arm/kernel/perf_event.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'arch/arm/kernel/perf_event.c') diff --git a/arch/arm/kernel/perf_event.c b/arch/arm/kernel/perf_event.c index 186c8cb982c5..a02eada3aa5d 100644 --- a/arch/arm/kernel/perf_event.c +++ b/arch/arm/kernel/perf_event.c @@ -503,7 +503,7 @@ __hw_perf_event_init(struct perf_event *event) event_requires_mode_exclusion(&event->attr)) { pr_debug("ARM performance counters do not support " "mode exclusion\n"); - return -EPERM; + return -EOPNOTSUPP; } /* -- cgit v1.2.3