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    perf stat: better error message for unsupported events · 5a3446bc
    David Ahern authored
    For unsupported events (e.g., H/W events when running in a VM)
    perf stat currently fails with the error message:
    
          Error: open_counter returned with 2 (No such file or directory).
        /bin/dmesg may provide additional information.
    
          Fatal: Not all events could be opened.
    
    dmesg is of no help and it is not clear as to why it fails to
    open the counter. This patch changes the error message to
    
          Error: cache-misses event is not supported.
          Fatal: Not all events could be opened.
    
    Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
    Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
    Cc: a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl
    LPU-Reference: <1294597272-17335-1-git-send-email-daahern@cisco.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid Ahern <daahern@cisco.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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