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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2009-11-11 14:29:34 -0500
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2009-11-11 14:29:34 -0500
commit26a9ba160f50115ece48198608002600914932a7 (patch)
treebcbc9be816e0282c0e33822b897489ca74a3e54f
parent13b5892672073b1169b3b60b8a57123fb32c9df1 (diff)
parentc10edee2e1716f8cf217cf52ed01ae4742fcdf3c (diff)
Merge branch 'perf-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'perf-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: perf tools: Fix permission checks perf_events: Fix some typo in the perf events config description
-rw-r--r--init/Kconfig4
-rw-r--r--tools/perf/builtin-record.c2
-rw-r--r--tools/perf/builtin-top.c2
3 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/init/Kconfig b/init/Kconfig
index f51586406d62..9e03ef8b311e 100644
--- a/init/Kconfig
+++ b/init/Kconfig
@@ -937,7 +937,7 @@ config PERF_EVENTS
937 Enable kernel support for various performance events provided 937 Enable kernel support for various performance events provided
938 by software and hardware. 938 by software and hardware.
939 939
940 Software events are supported either build-in or via the 940 Software events are supported either built-in or via the
941 use of generic tracepoints. 941 use of generic tracepoints.
942 942
943 Most modern CPUs support performance events via performance 943 Most modern CPUs support performance events via performance
@@ -949,7 +949,7 @@ config PERF_EVENTS
949 used to profile the code that runs on that CPU. 949 used to profile the code that runs on that CPU.
950 950
951 The Linux Performance Event subsystem provides an abstraction of 951 The Linux Performance Event subsystem provides an abstraction of
952 these software and hardware cevent apabilities, available via a 952 these software and hardware event capabilities, available via a
953 system call and used by the "perf" utility in tools/perf/. It 953 system call and used by the "perf" utility in tools/perf/. It
954 provides per task and per CPU counters, and it provides event 954 provides per task and per CPU counters, and it provides event
955 capabilities on top of those. 955 capabilities on top of those.
diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-record.c b/tools/perf/builtin-record.c
index 3eeef339c787..a4be453fc8a9 100644
--- a/tools/perf/builtin-record.c
+++ b/tools/perf/builtin-record.c
@@ -426,7 +426,7 @@ try_again:
426 if (fd[nr_cpu][counter] < 0) { 426 if (fd[nr_cpu][counter] < 0) {
427 int err = errno; 427 int err = errno;
428 428
429 if (err == EPERM) 429 if (err == EPERM || err == EACCES)
430 die("Permission error - are you root?\n"); 430 die("Permission error - are you root?\n");
431 else if (err == ENODEV && profile_cpu != -1) 431 else if (err == ENODEV && profile_cpu != -1)
432 die("No such device - did you specify an out-of-range profile CPU?\n"); 432 die("No such device - did you specify an out-of-range profile CPU?\n");
diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-top.c b/tools/perf/builtin-top.c
index a1b1d10912dc..e23bc74e734f 100644
--- a/tools/perf/builtin-top.c
+++ b/tools/perf/builtin-top.c
@@ -1027,7 +1027,7 @@ try_again:
1027 if (fd[i][counter] < 0) { 1027 if (fd[i][counter] < 0) {
1028 int err = errno; 1028 int err = errno;
1029 1029
1030 if (err == EPERM) 1030 if (err == EPERM || err == EACCES)
1031 die("No permission - are you root?\n"); 1031 die("No permission - are you root?\n");
1032 /* 1032 /*
1033 * If it's cycles then fall back to hrtimer 1033 * If it's cycles then fall back to hrtimer