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authorPekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>2009-11-08 18:01:06 +0200
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2009-11-08 17:04:54 +0100
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perf tools: Fix permission checks
The perf_event_open() system call returns EACCES if the user is not root which results in a very confusing error message: $ perf record -A -a -f Error: perfcounter syscall returned with -1 (Permission denied) Fatal: No CONFIG_PERF_EVENTS=y kernel support configured? It turns out that's because perf tools are checking only for EPERM. Fix that up to get a much better error message: $ perf record -A -a -f Fatal: Permission error - are you root? Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> LKML-Reference: <1257696066-4046-1-git-send-email-penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Diffstat (limited to 'tools')
-rw-r--r--tools/perf/builtin-record.c2
-rw-r--r--tools/perf/builtin-top.c2
2 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-record.c b/tools/perf/builtin-record.c
index 3eeef339c787..a4be453fc8a9 100644
--- a/tools/perf/builtin-record.c
+++ b/tools/perf/builtin-record.c
@@ -426,7 +426,7 @@ try_again:
if (fd[nr_cpu][counter] < 0) {
int err = errno;
- if (err == EPERM)
+ if (err == EPERM || err == EACCES)
die("Permission error - are you root?\n");
else if (err == ENODEV && profile_cpu != -1)
die("No such device - did you specify an out-of-range profile CPU?\n");
diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-top.c b/tools/perf/builtin-top.c
index a1b1d10912dc..e23bc74e734f 100644
--- a/tools/perf/builtin-top.c
+++ b/tools/perf/builtin-top.c
@@ -1027,7 +1027,7 @@ try_again:
if (fd[i][counter] < 0) {
int err = errno;
- if (err == EPERM)
+ if (err == EPERM || err == EACCES)
die("No permission - are you root?\n");
/*
* If it's cycles then fall back to hrtimer