Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2017 13:41:14 -0700
From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
To: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>, Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>,
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        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>, "mingo@elte.hu" <mingo@elte.hu>,
        "Liang, Kan" <kan.liang@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] perf record: enable multiplexing scaling via -R
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> So I think we are good to go. to capture multiplexing scaling factor
> when sampling simply use the S
> modifier.
> But to my surprise, newer kernels are not happy with the cmdline:
> $ perf record -e cycles:S  noploop 1
> Error:
> The sys_perf_event_open() syscall returned with 22 (Invalid argument)
> for event (cycles:Su).
> /bin/dmesg may provide additional information.
> No CONFIG_PERF_EVENTS=y kernel support configured?

Likely due to 

ba5213ae6b88 perf/core: Correct event creation with PERF_FORMAT_GROUP

It's not supported with inherited events.

-Andi