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| author | Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> | 2012-12-13 22:10:58 +0400 |
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| committer | Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> | 2013-01-24 23:40:09 +0400 |
| commit | 56e52e85366717481cde16b3480f015c7eb32ba3 (patch) | |
| tree | 5e68bd51510915b6da7db8e0fdcc5fc766dd6b6a /tools/perf/builtin-stat.c | |
| parent | c0a54341c0e89333ef201fc3f3001176962f6121 (diff) | |
| download | linux-56e52e85366717481cde16b3480f015c7eb32ba3.tar.xz | |
perf evsel: Introduce perf_evsel__open_strerror method
That consolidates the error messages in 'record', 'stat' and 'top', that
now get a consistent set of messages and allow other tools to use the
new method to report problems using whatever UI toolkit.
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-1cudb7wl996kz7ilz83ctvhr@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'tools/perf/builtin-stat.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | tools/perf/builtin-stat.c | 16 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 11 deletions
diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-stat.c b/tools/perf/builtin-stat.c index ef067c193f93..1c2ac148a7d5 100644 --- a/tools/perf/builtin-stat.c +++ b/tools/perf/builtin-stat.c @@ -247,6 +247,7 @@ static int read_counter(struct perf_evsel *counter) static int __run_perf_stat(int argc __maybe_unused, const char **argv) { + char msg[512]; unsigned long long t0, t1; struct perf_evsel *counter; int status = 0; @@ -324,20 +325,13 @@ static int __run_perf_stat(int argc __maybe_unused, const char **argv) continue; } - if (errno == EPERM || errno == EACCES) { - error("You may not have permission to collect %sstats.\n" - "\t Consider tweaking" - " /proc/sys/kernel/perf_event_paranoid or running as root.", - target.system_wide ? "system-wide " : ""); - } else { - error("open_counter returned with %d (%s). " - "/bin/dmesg may provide additional information.\n", - errno, strerror(errno)); - } + perf_evsel__open_strerror(counter, &target, + errno, msg, sizeof(msg)); + ui__error("%s\n", msg); + if (child_pid != -1) kill(child_pid, SIGTERM); - pr_err("Not all events could be opened.\n"); return -1; } counter->supported = true; |