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>

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 11 deletions

diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-stat.c b/tools/perf/builtin-stat.c
index ef067c193f93..1c2ac148a7d5 100644
--- a/tools/perf/builtin-stat.c
+++ b/tools/perf/builtin-stat.c
@@ -247,6 +247,7 @@ static int read_counter(struct perf_evsel *counter)
 
 static int __run_perf_stat(int argc __maybe_unused, const char **argv)
 {
+        char msg[512];
         unsigned long long t0, t1;
         struct perf_evsel *counter;
         int status = 0;
@@ -324,20 +325,13 @@ static int __run_perf_stat(int argc __maybe_unused, const char **argv)
                                 continue;
                         }
 
-                        if (errno == EPERM || errno == EACCES) {
-                                error("You may not have permission to collect %sstats.\n"
-                                      "\t Consider tweaking"
-                                      " /proc/sys/kernel/perf_event_paranoid or running as root.",
-                                      target.system_wide ? "system-wide " : "");
-                        } else {
-                                error("open_counter returned with %d (%s). "
-                                      "/bin/dmesg may provide additional information.\n",
-                                       errno, strerror(errno));
-                        }
+                        perf_evsel__open_strerror(counter, &target,
+                                                  errno, msg, sizeof(msg));
+                        ui__error("%s\n", msg);
+
                         if (child_pid != -1)
                                 kill(child_pid, SIGTERM);
 
-                        pr_err("Not all events could be opened.\n");
                         return -1;
                 }
                 counter->supported = true;