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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: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo 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: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 2010-03-11 15:53:12 -03:00 committed by Ingo Molnar
parent 9b33fa6ba0
commit 6230f2c7ef
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@ -280,7 +280,8 @@ try_again:
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");