Revert "perf tools: Emit clearer message for sys_perf_event_open ENOENT return"

This reverts commit aa7bc7ef73efc46d7c3a0e185eefaf85744aec98.

It removed the fallback from hardware profiling to software profiling.
.e.g., in a VM with no PMU.

Reported-by: David Ahern <daahern@cisco.com>
Cc: David Ahern <daahern@cisco.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

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tools/perf/builtin-record.c
··· 331 331 else if (err == ENODEV && cpu_list) { 332 332 die("No such device - did you specify" 333 333 " an out-of-range profile CPU?\n"); 334 - } else if (err == ENOENT) { 335 - die("%s event is not supported. ", 336 - event_name(evsel)); 337 334 } else if (err == EINVAL && sample_id_all_avail) { 338 335 /* 339 336 * Old kernel, no attr->sample_id_type_all field
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tools/perf/builtin-top.c
··· 1247 1247 die("Permission error - are you root?\n" 1248 1248 "\t Consider tweaking" 1249 1249 " /proc/sys/kernel/perf_event_paranoid.\n"); 1250 - if (err == ENOENT) 1251 - die("%s event is not supported. ", event_name(evsel)); 1252 1250 /* 1253 1251 * If it's cycles then fall back to hrtimer 1254 1252 * based cpu-clock-tick sw counter, which