Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | From | Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <> | Subject | [PATCH 02/11] perf evlist: Add suggestion of how to set perf_event_paranoid sysctl | Date | Thu, 19 Jun 2014 18:13:44 -0300 |
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From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Minor hint to speed up problem resolution and get 'trace' working for non root users.
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com> Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Cc: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> 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-abdqi8km4fj9osrn70q2zj9v@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> --- tools/perf/util/evlist.c | 5 +++-- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/evlist.c b/tools/perf/util/evlist.c index 59ef2802fcf6..c51223ac25f4 100644 --- a/tools/perf/util/evlist.c +++ b/tools/perf/util/evlist.c @@ -1214,10 +1214,11 @@ int perf_evlist__strerror_open(struct perf_evlist *evlist __maybe_unused, "For your workloads it needs to be <= 1\nHint:\t"); } printed += scnprintf(buf + printed, size - printed, - "For system wide tracing it needs to be set to -1"); + "For system wide tracing it needs to be set to -1.\n"); printed += scnprintf(buf + printed, size - printed, - ".\nHint:\tThe current value is %d.", value); + "Hint:\tTry: 'sudo sh -c \"echo -1 > /proc/sys/kernel/perf_event_paranoid\"'\n" + "Hint:\tThe current value is %d.", value); break; default: scnprintf(buf, size, "%s", emsg); -- 1.9.3
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