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| author | Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> | 2017-02-13 16:45:24 -0300 |
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| committer | Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> | 2017-02-13 17:22:33 -0300 |
| commit | d6195a6a2c247515d5832debb51c03a74dc3f8f6 (patch) | |
| tree | 18a5f7ae1648ab4167c8f2db7fd372b031bce600 /tools/perf/util | |
| parent | e8c6f437fd12d39e462962eaed2315bac597d34c (diff) | |
perf evsel: Inform how to make a sysctl setting permanent
When a tool can't open counters due to the kernel.perf_event_paranoit
sysctl setting, we inform how to tweak it to allow the operation to
succeed, in addition to that, suggest setting /etc/sysctl.conf to
make the setting permanent.
Suggested-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-4gwe99k4a6p12d4u8bbyttj2@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'tools/perf/util')
| -rw-r--r-- | tools/perf/util/evsel.c | 4 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/evsel.c b/tools/perf/util/evsel.c index 04e536ae4d88..cd2fb42e5dd4 100644 --- a/tools/perf/util/evsel.c +++ b/tools/perf/util/evsel.c @@ -2469,7 +2469,9 @@ int perf_evsel__open_strerror(struct perf_evsel *evsel, struct target *target, " -1: Allow use of (almost) all events by all users\n" ">= 0: Disallow raw tracepoint access by users without CAP_IOC_LOCK\n" ">= 1: Disallow CPU event access by users without CAP_SYS_ADMIN\n" - ">= 2: Disallow kernel profiling by users without CAP_SYS_ADMIN", + ">= 2: Disallow kernel profiling by users without CAP_SYS_ADMIN\n\n" + "To make this setting permanent, edit /etc/sysctl.conf too, e.g.:\n\n" + " kernel.perf_event_paranoid = -1\n" , target->system_wide ? "system-wide " : "", perf_event_paranoid()); case ENOENT: |