perf tools: Fixup exit path when not able to open events
We have to deal with the TUI mode in perf top, so that we don't end up
with a garbled screen when, say, a non root user on a machine with a
paranoid setting (the default) tries to use 'perf top'.
Introduce a ui__warning_paranoid() routine shared by top and record that
tells the user the valid values for /proc/sys/kernel/perf_event_paranoid.
Cc: David Ahern <daahern@cisco.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-record.c b/tools/perf/builtin-record.c
index 6febcc1..623695e 100644
--- a/tools/perf/builtin-record.c
+++ b/tools/perf/builtin-record.c
@@ -275,11 +275,10 @@
!no_inherit) < 0) {
int err = errno;
- if (err == EPERM || err == EACCES)
- die("Permission error - are you root?\n"
- "\t Consider tweaking"
- " /proc/sys/kernel/perf_event_paranoid.\n");
- else if (err == ENODEV && cpu_list) {
+ if (err == EPERM || err == EACCES) {
+ ui__warning_paranoid();
+ exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
+ } else if (err == ENODEV && cpu_list) {
die("No such device - did you specify"
" an out-of-range profile CPU?\n");
} else if (err == EINVAL && sample_id_all_avail) {