From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755459AbeDTOfK (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Apr 2018 10:35:10 -0400 Received: from mail.kernel.org ([198.145.29.99]:44870 "EHLO mail.kernel.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755349AbeDTOda (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Apr 2018 10:33:30 -0400 DMARC-Filter: OpenDMARC Filter v1.3.2 mail.kernel.org 59DE2217D9 Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; dmarc=none (p=none dis=none) header.from=kernel.org Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; spf=none smtp.mailfrom=acme@kernel.org From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo To: Ingo Molnar Cc: Clark Williams , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-perf-users@vger.kernel.org, Andi Kleen , Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Subject: [PATCH 12/17] perf record: Remove misleading error suggestion Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2018 11:32:22 -0300 Message-Id: <20180420143227.16030-13-acme@kernel.org> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.14.3 In-Reply-To: <20180420143227.16030-1-acme@kernel.org> References: <20180420143227.16030-1-acme@kernel.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Andi Kleen 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 Acked-by: Jiri Olsa Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180406203812.3087-4-andi@firstfloor.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo --- 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 1ac8d9236efd..66b62570c855 100644 --- a/tools/perf/util/evsel.c +++ b/tools/perf/util/evsel.c @@ -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)); } -- 2.14.3