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>
diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-record.c b/tools/perf/builtin-record.c
index 771533c..6e4a393 100644
--- a/tools/perf/builtin-record.c
+++ b/tools/perf/builtin-record.c
@@ -280,7 +280,8 @@
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");