linux-kernel - [PATCH 13/17] perf record: Remove suggestion to enable APIC

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Date:   Fri, 20 Apr 2018 11:32:23 -0300
From:   Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...nel.org>
To:     Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
Cc:     Clark Williams <williams@...hat.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-perf-users@...r.kernel.org, Andi Kleen <ak@...ux.intel.com>,
        Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...hat.com>
Subject: [PATCH 13/17] perf record: Remove suggestion to enable APIC

From: Andi Kleen <ak@...ux.intel.com>

'perf record' suggests to enable the APIC on errors.

APIC is practically always used today and the problem is usually
somewhere else.

Just remove the outdated suggestion.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@...ux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...nel.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180406203812.3087-5-andi@firstfloor.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...hat.com>
---
 tools/perf/util/evsel.c | 3 +--
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tools/perf/util/evsel.c b/tools/perf/util/evsel.c
index 66b62570c855..3e87486c28fe 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/evsel.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/evsel.c
@@ -2870,8 +2870,7 @@ int perf_evsel__open_strerror(struct perf_evsel *evsel, struct target *target,
 #if defined(__i386__) || defined(__x86_64__)
 		if (evsel->attr.type == PERF_TYPE_HARDWARE)
 			return scnprintf(msg, size, "%s",
-	"No hardware sampling interrupt available.\n"
-	"No APIC? If so then you can boot the kernel with the \"lapic\" boot parameter to force-enable it.");
+	"No hardware sampling interrupt available.\n");
 #endif
 		break;
 	case EBUSY:
-- 
2.14.3