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authorArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>2015-07-06 07:51:41 -0400
committerArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>2015-07-06 11:22:14 -0400
commitab85785aa13c36440a91a8e9f7616357de411a1f (patch)
treee12b993f3ca7ce4df2abf0b077e569cdf91e0988 /tools/lib/api/fs
parent3abebc55d70b6e3247d1f0e34c0bb906e40d2a18 (diff)
tools lib api debugfs: Check for tracefs when reporting errors
Now that we have two mountpoints, one for debugfs and another, for tracefs, we end up needing to check permissions for both, so, on a system with default config we were always asking the user to check the permission of the debugfs mountpoint, even when it was already sufficient. Fix it. E.g.: $ trace -e nanosleep usleep 1 Error: No permissions to read /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/raw_syscalls/sys_(enter|exit) Hint: Try 'sudo mount -o remount,mode=755 /sys/kernel/debug' $ sudo mount -o remount,mode=755 /sys/kernel/debug $ trace -e nanosleep usleep 1 Error: No permissions to read /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/raw_syscalls/sys_(enter|exit) Hint: Try 'sudo mount -o remount,mode=755 /sys/kernel/debug/tracing' $ sudo mount -o remount,mode=755 /sys/kernel/debug/tracing $ trace -e nanosleep usleep 1 0.326 ( 0.061 ms): usleep/11961 nanosleep(rqtp: 0x7ffef1081c50) = 0 $ Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-0viljeuhc7q84ic8kobsna43@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'tools/lib/api/fs')
-rw-r--r--tools/lib/api/fs/debugfs.c15
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/tools/lib/api/fs/debugfs.c b/tools/lib/api/fs/debugfs.c
index 8305b3e9d48e..eb7cf4d18f8a 100644
--- a/tools/lib/api/fs/debugfs.c
+++ b/tools/lib/api/fs/debugfs.c
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@
12#include <linux/kernel.h> 12#include <linux/kernel.h>
13 13
14#include "debugfs.h" 14#include "debugfs.h"
15#include "tracefs.h"
15 16
16#ifndef DEBUGFS_DEFAULT_PATH 17#ifndef DEBUGFS_DEFAULT_PATH
17#define DEBUGFS_DEFAULT_PATH "/sys/kernel/debug" 18#define DEBUGFS_DEFAULT_PATH "/sys/kernel/debug"
@@ -94,11 +95,21 @@ int debugfs__strerror_open(int err, char *buf, size_t size, const char *filename
94 "Hint:\tIs the debugfs filesystem mounted?\n" 95 "Hint:\tIs the debugfs filesystem mounted?\n"
95 "Hint:\tTry 'sudo mount -t debugfs nodev /sys/kernel/debug'"); 96 "Hint:\tTry 'sudo mount -t debugfs nodev /sys/kernel/debug'");
96 break; 97 break;
97 case EACCES: 98 case EACCES: {
99 const char *mountpoint = debugfs_mountpoint;
100
101 if (!access(debugfs_mountpoint, R_OK) && strncmp(filename, "tracing/", 8) == 0) {
102 const char *tracefs_mntpoint = tracefs_find_mountpoint();
103
104 if (tracefs_mntpoint)
105 mountpoint = tracefs_mntpoint;
106 }
107
98 snprintf(buf, size, 108 snprintf(buf, size,
99 "Error:\tNo permissions to read %s/%s\n" 109 "Error:\tNo permissions to read %s/%s\n"
100 "Hint:\tTry 'sudo mount -o remount,mode=755 %s'\n", 110 "Hint:\tTry 'sudo mount -o remount,mode=755 %s'\n",
101 debugfs_mountpoint, filename, debugfs_mountpoint); 111 debugfs_mountpoint, filename, mountpoint);
112 }
102 break; 113 break;
103 default: 114 default:
104 snprintf(buf, size, "%s", strerror_r(err, sbuf, sizeof(sbuf))); 115 snprintf(buf, size, "%s", strerror_r(err, sbuf, sizeof(sbuf)));