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authorPrarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com>2022-10-18 15:23:37 -0400
committerLen Brown <len.brown@intel.com>2023-03-17 11:16:30 -0400
commit9c08581728ccadc6b9e4135b7b8d31948e814f6f (patch)
tree8f9a0ee59ddad698611e6cca6b8102d57a26a061 /tools/power/x86/turbostat/turbostat.c
parenttools/power turbostat: update dump of SECONDARY_TURBO_RATIO_LIMIT (diff)
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tools/power turbostat: Provide better debug messages for failed capabilities accesses
turbostat reports some capabilities access errors and not others. Provide the same debug message for all errors. [lenb: remove extra quotes] Cc: David Arcari <darcari@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Diffstat (limited to '')
-rw-r--r--tools/power/x86/turbostat/turbostat.c12
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/tools/power/x86/turbostat/turbostat.c b/tools/power/x86/turbostat/turbostat.c
index 7ae3086c5ec0..d246ef6153dc 100644
--- a/tools/power/x86/turbostat/turbostat.c
+++ b/tools/power/x86/turbostat/turbostat.c
@@ -670,7 +670,8 @@ static int perf_instr_count_open(int cpu_num)
/* counter for cpu_num, including user + kernel and all processes */
fd = perf_event_open(&pea, -1, cpu_num, -1, 0);
if (fd == -1) {
- warn("cpu%d: perf instruction counter", cpu_num);
+ warnx("capget(CAP_PERFMON) failed, try \"# setcap cap_sys_admin=ep %s\"",
+ progname);
BIC_NOT_PRESENT(BIC_IPC);
}
@@ -3502,9 +3503,6 @@ release_msr:
/*
* set_my_sched_priority(pri)
* return previous
- *
- * if non-root, do this:
- * # /sbin/setcap cap_sys_rawio,cap_sys_nice=+ep /usr/bin/turbostat
*/
int set_my_sched_priority(int priority)
{
@@ -3518,7 +3516,8 @@ int set_my_sched_priority(int priority)
retval = setpriority(PRIO_PROCESS, 0, priority);
if (retval)
- err(retval, "setpriority(%d)", priority);
+ errx(retval, "capget(CAP_SYS_NICE) failed,try \"# setcap cap_sys_nice=ep %s\"",
+ progname);
errno = 0;
retval = getpriority(PRIO_PROCESS, 0);
@@ -5476,7 +5475,8 @@ void print_dev_latency(void)
fd = open(path, O_RDONLY);
if (fd < 0) {
- warn("fopen %s\n", path);
+ warnx("capget(CAP_SYS_ADMIN) failed, try \"# setcap cap_sys_admin=ep %s\"",
+ progname);
return;
}