[RFC PATCH 3/5] kselftests/resctrl: remove unnecessary exclude_idle
Reinette Chatre
reinette.chatre at intel.com
Tue Feb 17 09:52:39 PST 2026
Hi Shaopeng,
On 1/22/26 8:40 PM, Shaopeng Tan wrote:
> The Linux manual states regarding exclude_idle: "While you can currently
> enable this for any event type, it is ignored for all but software events."
> Also, it appears exclude_idle is not supported on Arm.
Just to confirm, does "not supported on Arm" imply that perf_event_open() fails when
exclude_idle is 1? Thus encountering:
EPERM Returned on many (but not all) architectures when an unsupported
exclude_hv, exclude_idle, exclude_user, or exclude_kernel setting is
specified.
Reinette
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