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>
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Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2017-02-13 16:45:24 -03:00
parent e8c6f437fd
commit d6195a6a2c
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@@ -533,7 +533,7 @@ static int store_counter_ids(struct perf_evsel *counter)
static int __run_perf_stat(int argc, const char **argv)
{
int interval = stat_config.interval;
char msg[512];
char msg[BUFSIZ];
unsigned long long t0, t1;
struct perf_evsel *counter;
struct timespec ts;