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    perf record: Support weak groups · cf99ad14
    Andi Kleen authored
    Implement a weak group fallback for 'perf record', similar to the
    existing 'perf stat' support.  This allows to use groups that might be
    longer than the available counters without failing.
    
    Before:
    
      $ perf record  -e '{cycles,cache-misses,cache-references,cpu_clk_unhalted.thread,cycles,cycles,cycles}' -a sleep 1
      Error:
      The sys_perf_event_open() syscall returned with 22 (Invalid argument) for event (cycles).
      /bin/dmesg | grep -i perf may provide additional information.
    
    After:
    
      $ ./perf record  -e '{cycles,cache-misses,cache-references,cpu_clk_unhalted.thread,cycles,cycles,cycles}:W' -a sleep 1
      WARNING: No sample_id_all support, falling back to unordered processing
      [ perf record: Woken up 3 times to write data ]
      [ perf record: Captured and wrote 8.136 MB perf.data (134069 samples) ]
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAndi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
    Acked-by: default avatarJiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
    Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181001195927.14211-2-andi@firstfloor.orgSigned-off-by: default avatarArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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