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>
diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-top.c b/tools/perf/builtin-top.c
index 8d41d0b..f5fd260 100644
--- a/tools/perf/builtin-top.c
+++ b/tools/perf/builtin-top.c
@@ -892,7 +892,7 @@
static void perf_top__start_counters(struct perf_top *top)
{
- char msg[128];
+ char msg[512];
struct perf_evsel *counter;
struct perf_evlist *evlist = top->evlist;
struct perf_record_opts *opts = &top->record_opts;
@@ -900,42 +900,18 @@
perf_evlist__config(evlist, opts);
list_for_each_entry(counter, &evlist->entries, node) {
- struct perf_event_attr *attr = &counter->attr;
try_again:
if (perf_evsel__open(counter, top->evlist->cpus,
top->evlist->threads) < 0) {
- int err = errno;
-
- if (err == EPERM || err == EACCES) {
- ui__error_paranoid();
- goto out_err;
- }
-
- if (perf_evsel__fallback(counter, err, msg, sizeof(msg))) {
+ if (perf_evsel__fallback(counter, errno, msg, sizeof(msg))) {
if (verbose)
ui__warning("%s\n", msg);
goto try_again;
}
- if (err == ENOENT) {
- ui__error("The %s event is not supported.\n",
- perf_evsel__name(counter));
- goto out_err;
- } else if (err == EMFILE) {
- ui__error("Too many events are opened.\n"
- "Try again after reducing the number of events\n");
- goto out_err;
- } else if ((err == EOPNOTSUPP) && (attr->precise_ip)) {
- ui__error("\'precise\' request may not be supported. "
- "Try removing 'p' modifier\n");
- goto out_err;
- }
-
- ui__error("The sys_perf_event_open() syscall "
- "returned with %d (%s). /bin/dmesg "
- "may provide additional information.\n"
- "No CONFIG_PERF_EVENTS=y kernel support "
- "configured?\n", err, strerror(err));
+ perf_evsel__open_strerror(counter, &opts->target,
+ errno, msg, sizeof(msg));
+ ui__error("%s\n", msg);
goto out_err;
}
}