perf evsel: Inform how to make a sysctl setting permanent
authorArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Mon, 13 Feb 2017 19:45:24 +0000 (16:45 -0300)
committerArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Mon, 13 Feb 2017 20:22:33 +0000 (17:22 -0300)
commitd6195a6a2c247515d5832debb51c03a74dc3f8f6
tree18a5f7ae1648ab4167c8f2db7fd372b031bce600
parente8c6f437fd12d39e462962eaed2315bac597d34c
perf evsel: Inform how to make a sysctl setting permanent

When a tool can't open counters due to the kernel.perf_event_paranoit
sysctl setting, we inform how to tweak it to allow the operation to
succeed, in addition to that, suggest setting /etc/sysctl.conf to
make the setting permanent.

Suggested-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-4gwe99k4a6p12d4u8bbyttj2@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
tools/perf/builtin-record.c
tools/perf/builtin-stat.c
tools/perf/builtin-top.c
tools/perf/util/evsel.c