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authorGrant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>2011-05-20 00:43:00 -0600
committerGrant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>2011-05-20 00:43:00 -0600
commit78fab4c04c76b8c9327541bd270f82b85b42bbf7 (patch)
treeb43006348a1ac15c28e6791d08646809761a2a4a /tools/perf/util/debug.c
parent3b8a4dd3ebfcc647260ad5c39ef4f73eb3a6b155 (diff)
parent61c4f2c81c61f73549928dfd9f3e8f26aa36a8cf (diff)
Merge commit 'v2.6.39' into spi/next
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 d4536a9e0d8..155749d7435 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;