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Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2009 18:45:42 +0100 From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu> To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org> Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>, Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>, Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org> Subject: [GIT PULL] perf events fixes Linus, Please pull the latest perf-fixes-for-linus git tree from: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip.git perf-fixes-for-linus Thanks, Ingo ------------------> Pekka Enberg (1): perf tools: Fix permission checks Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo (1): perf_events: Fix some typo in the perf events config description init/Kconfig | 4 ++-- tools/perf/builtin-record.c | 2 +- tools/perf/builtin-top.c | 2 +- 3 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/init/Kconfig b/init/Kconfig index 09c5c64..3b8c7bc 100644 --- a/init/Kconfig +++ b/init/Kconfig @@ -937,7 +937,7 @@ config PERF_EVENTS Enable kernel support for various performance events provided by software and hardware. - Software events are supported either build-in or via the + Software events are supported either built-in or via the use of generic tracepoints. Most modern CPUs support performance events via performance @@ -949,7 +949,7 @@ config PERF_EVENTS used to profile the code that runs on that CPU. The Linux Performance Event subsystem provides an abstraction of - these software and hardware cevent apabilities, available via a + these software and hardware event capabilities, available via a system call and used by the "perf" utility in tools/perf/. It provides per task and per CPU counters, and it provides event capabilities on top of those. diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-record.c b/tools/perf/builtin-record.c index 3eeef33..a4be453 100644 --- a/tools/perf/builtin-record.c +++ b/tools/perf/builtin-record.c @@ -426,7 +426,7 @@ try_again: if (fd[nr_cpu][counter] < 0) { int err = errno; - if (err == EPERM) + if (err == EPERM || err == EACCES) die("Permission error - are you root?\n"); else if (err == ENODEV && profile_cpu != -1) 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 a1b1d10..e23bc74 100644 --- a/tools/perf/builtin-top.c +++ b/tools/perf/builtin-top.c @@ -1027,7 +1027,7 @@ try_again: if (fd[i][counter] < 0) { int err = errno; - if (err == EPERM) + if (err == EPERM || err == EACCES) die("No permission - are you root?\n"); /* * If it's cycles then fall back to hrtimer -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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