Commit ec394845 authored Apr 06, 2018 by Andi Kleen Committed by Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Apr 18, 2018

perf record: Remove misleading error suggestion



When perf record encounters an error setting up an event it suggests
to enable CONFIG_PERF_EVENTS. This is misleading because:

- Usually it is enabled (it is really hard to disable on x86)

- The problem is usually somewhere else, e.g. the CPU is not supported
or an invalid configuration has been used.

Remove the misleading suggestion.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180406203812.3087-4-andi@firstfloor.org


Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

parent 6a02f06e

tools/perf/util/evsel.c

+1 −2

Original line number	Diff line number	Diff line
		@@ -2894,8 +2894,7 @@ int perf_evsel__open_strerror(struct perf_evsel evsel, struct target target,

		return scnprintf(msg, size,
		"The sys_perf_event_open() syscall returned with %d (%s) for event (%s).\n"
		"/bin/dmesg may provide additional information.\n"
		"No CONFIG_PERF_EVENTS=y kernel support configured?",
		"/bin/dmesg \| grep -i perf may provide additional information.\n",
		err, str_error_r(err, sbuf, sizeof(sbuf)),
		perf_evsel__name(evsel));
		}

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