Commit 6230f2c7 authored by Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo's avatar Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Committed by Ingo Molnar

perf record: Mention paranoid sysctl when failing to create counter

[acme@mica linux-2.6-tip]$ perf record -a -f
   Fatal: Permission error - are you root?
 	 Consider tweaking /proc/sys/kernel/perf_event_paranoid.

 [acme@mica linux-2.6-tip]$
Suggested-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: default avatarArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
LKML-Reference: <1268333592-30872-2-git-send-email-acme@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
parent 9b33fa6b
......@@ -280,7 +280,8 @@ static void create_counter(int counter, int cpu, pid_t pid)
int err = errno;
if (err == EPERM || err == EACCES)
die("Permission error - are you root?\n");
die("Permission error - are you root?\n"
"\t Consider tweaking /proc/sys/kernel/perf_event_paranoid.\n");
else if (err == ENODEV && profile_cpu != -1)
die("No such device - did you specify an out-of-range profile CPU?\n");
......
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