[PATCH] coresight replicator: set default y after Kconfig rename
Suzuki K Poulose
Suzuki.Poulose at arm.com
Fri Feb 9 01:51:52 PST 2018
On 07/02/18 21:03, Kim Phillips wrote:
> Commit 1c8859848dbb ("coresight replicator: Cleanup programmable
> replicator naming") changed the Kconfig symbol name from
> QCOM_REPLICATOR, which, whilst not in the single arm64 defconfig,
> was being set in my juno build script, which left the new symbol unset,
> causing the following unexpected grief:
>
> # ./perf record -vvv -C 0 -e cs_etm/@20070000.etr/ --per-thread true
> ..<snip>..
> sys_perf_event_open: pid -1 cpu 0 group_fd -1 flags 0x8 = 5
> mmap size 528384B
> AUX area mmap length 4194304
> perf event ring buffer mmapped per cpu
> failed to mmap AUX area
> failed to mmap with 12 (Cannot allocate memory)
>
> Make it default y to help not surprise unsuspecting users.
I think the best way to address this issue is to set the proper errno when
we fail to build a path, say -ENODEV, that could give us a better clue
on what is going wrong. Have you checked the dmesg to see if it complains
about "build path" failure ?
Cheers
Suzuki
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