linux-kernel - [tip:perf/urgent] perf record: Remove suggestion to enable APIC

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Date:   Sat, 21 Apr 2018 00:52:24 -0700
From:   tip-bot for Andi Kleen <tipbot@...or.com>
To:     linux-tip-commits@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     ak@...ux.intel.com, jolsa@...nel.org, tglx@...utronix.de,
        mingo@...nel.org, acme@...hat.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        hpa@...or.com
Subject: [tip:perf/urgent] perf record: Remove suggestion to enable APIC

Commit-ID:  ccbb6afe0890b09cc828373a9a5fffab40ec85df
Gitweb:     https://git.kernel.org/tip/ccbb6afe0890b09cc828373a9a5fffab40ec85df
Author:     Andi Kleen <ak@...ux.intel.com>
AuthorDate: Fri, 6 Apr 2018 13:38:12 -0700
Committer:  Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...hat.com>
CommitDate: Wed, 18 Apr 2018 15:35:50 -0300

perf record: Remove suggestion to enable APIC

'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Just remove the outdated suggestion.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: