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authorNamhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>2012-01-07 12:25:27 -0500
committerArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>2012-01-08 10:26:11 -0500
commitcdce445906852d90efdc773ca7ba460e6e41664d (patch)
treeb09c6c99908c573f4c72cf1c30e5078eb0413c96 /tools
parentc30ab8aa084843159b4679e9a3d7f63187d5906a (diff)
perf top: Add error message for EMFILE
When a user tries to open so many events, perf_event_open syscall may fail with EMFILE. Provide advise for that case. Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1325957132-10600-3-git-send-email-namhyung@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'tools')
-rw-r--r--tools/perf/builtin-top.c4
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-top.c b/tools/perf/builtin-top.c
index d89dec90103..8f80df89603 100644
--- a/tools/perf/builtin-top.c
+++ b/tools/perf/builtin-top.c
@@ -888,6 +888,10 @@ try_again:
888 ui__warning("The %s event is not supported.\n", 888 ui__warning("The %s event is not supported.\n",
889 event_name(counter)); 889 event_name(counter));
890 goto out_err; 890 goto out_err;
891 } else if (err == EMFILE) {
892 ui__warning("Too many events are opened.\n"
893 "Try again after reducing the number of events\n");
894 goto out_err;
891 } 895 }
892 896
893 ui__warning("The sys_perf_event_open() syscall " 897 ui__warning("The sys_perf_event_open() syscall "