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author | Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> | 2012-12-13 15:10:58 -0300 |
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committer | Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> | 2013-01-24 16:40:09 -0300 |
commit | 56e52e85366717481cde16b3480f015c7eb32ba3 (patch) | |
tree | 5e68bd51510915b6da7db8e0fdcc5fc766dd6b6a /tools/perf/util/evsel.c | |
parent | c0a54341c0e89333ef201fc3f3001176962f6121 (diff) | |
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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>
Diffstat (limited to 'tools/perf/util/evsel.c')
-rw-r--r-- | tools/perf/util/evsel.c | 49 |
1 files changed, 49 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/evsel.c b/tools/perf/util/evsel.c index 0c88e5c..e45332d 100644 --- a/tools/perf/util/evsel.c +++ b/tools/perf/util/evsel.c @@ -1406,3 +1406,52 @@ bool perf_evsel__fallback(struct perf_evsel *evsel, int err, return false; } + +int perf_evsel__open_strerror(struct perf_evsel *evsel, + struct perf_target *target, + int err, char *msg, size_t size) +{ + switch (err) { + case EPERM: + case EACCES: + return scnprintf(msg, size, "%s", + "You may not have permission to collect %sstats.\n" + "Consider tweaking /proc/sys/kernel/perf_event_paranoid:\n" + " -1 - Not paranoid at all\n" + " 0 - Disallow raw tracepoint access for unpriv\n" + " 1 - Disallow cpu events for unpriv\n" + " 2 - Disallow kernel profiling for unpriv", + target->system_wide ? "system-wide " : ""); + case ENOENT: + return scnprintf(msg, size, "The %s event is not supported.", + perf_evsel__name(evsel)); + case EMFILE: + return scnprintf(msg, size, "%s", + "Too many events are opened.\n" + "Try again after reducing the number of events."); + case ENODEV: + if (target->cpu_list) + return scnprintf(msg, size, "%s", + "No such device - did you specify an out-of-range profile CPU?\n"); + break; + case EOPNOTSUPP: + if (evsel->attr.precise_ip) + return scnprintf(msg, size, "%s", + "\'precise\' request may not be supported. Try removing 'p' modifier."); +#if defined(__i386__) || defined(__x86_64__) + if (evsel->attr.type == PERF_TYPE_HARDWARE) + return scnprintf(msg, size, "%s", + "No hardware sampling interrupt available.\n" + "No APIC? If so then you can boot the kernel with the \"lapic\" boot parameter to force-enable it."); +#endif + break; + default: + break; + } + + return scnprintf(msg, size, + "The sys_perf_event_open() syscall returned with %d (%s) for event (%s). \n" + "/bin/dmesg may provide additional information.\n" + "No CONFIG_PERF_EVENTS=y kernel support configured?\n", + err, strerror(err), perf_evsel__name(evsel)); +} |