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| author |   Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> | 2011-03-28 09:50:11 -0300 |
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| committer | Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> | 2011-03-29 13:40:27 -0300 |
| commit | c286c419c784c238cd699be37fec7a9acc30d89f (patch) | |
| tree | 3c99ba8a937f97dc02df0962a8a72cb26f9d27b5 /tools/perf/builtin-record.c | |
| parent | Merge branch 'core' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rric/oprofile into perf/urgent (diff) | |
| download | linux-dev-c286c419c784c238cd699be37fec7a9acc30d89f.tar.xz linux-dev-c286c419c784c238cd699be37fec7a9acc30d89f.zip | |
perf tools: Fixup exit path when not able to open events
We have to deal with the TUI mode in perf top, so that we don't end up
with a garbled screen when, say, a non root user on a machine with a
paranoid setting (the default) tries to use 'perf top'.
Introduce a ui__warning_paranoid() routine shared by top and record that
tells the user the valid values for /proc/sys/kernel/perf_event_paranoid.
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>
Diffstat (limited to 'tools/perf/builtin-record.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | tools/perf/builtin-record.c | 9 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-record.c b/tools/perf/builtin-record.c index 6febcc168a8c..623695e18254 100644 --- a/tools/perf/builtin-record.c +++ b/tools/perf/builtin-record.c @@ -275,11 +275,10 @@ try_again: !no_inherit) < 0) { int err = errno; - if (err == EPERM || err == EACCES) - die("Permission error - are you root?\n" - "\t Consider tweaking" - " /proc/sys/kernel/perf_event_paranoid.\n"); - else if (err == ENODEV && cpu_list) { + if (err == EPERM || err == EACCES) { + ui__warning_paranoid(); + exit(EXIT_FAILURE); + } else if (err == ENODEV && cpu_list) { die("No such device - did you specify" " an out-of-range profile CPU?\n"); } else if (err == EINVAL && sample_id_all_avail) { |