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authorJiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>2011-05-18 17:06:31 +0200
committerJiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>2011-05-18 17:06:49 +0200
commit6b7b8e488bbdedeccabdd001a78ffcbe43bb8a3a (patch)
treef2f77cc31b4548745778fca6a51b09e1d8a49804 /tools/perf/util/debug.c
parentb50f315cbb865079a16a12fd9ae6083f98fd592c (diff)
parentc1d10d18c542278b7fbc413c289d3cb6219da6b3 (diff)
Merge branch 'master' into upstream.
This is sync with Linus' tree to receive KEY_IMAGES definition that went in through input tree.
Diffstat (limited to 'tools/perf/util/debug.c')
-rw-r--r--tools/perf/util/debug.c10
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/debug.c b/tools/perf/util/debug.c
index d4536a9e0d8c..155749d74350 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/debug.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/debug.c
@@ -57,6 +57,16 @@ void ui__warning(const char *format, ...)
}
#endif
+void ui__warning_paranoid(void)
+{
+ ui__warning("Permission error - are you root?\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\n");
+}
+
void trace_event(union perf_event *event)
{
unsigned char *raw_event = (void *)event;