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authorAdrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>2013-12-11 14:36:23 +0200
committerArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>2013-12-13 10:30:20 -0300
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perf tools: Add perf_event_paranoid()
Add a function to return the value of /proc/sys/kernel/perf_event_paranoid. This will be used to determine default values for mmap size because perf is not subject to mmap limits when perf_event_paranoid is less than zero. Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1386765443-26966-12-git-send-email-alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'tools/perf/util/evlist.c')
-rw-r--r--tools/perf/util/evlist.c3
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/evlist.c b/tools/perf/util/evlist.c
index af25055..2eb7378 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/evlist.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/evlist.c
@@ -1191,8 +1191,7 @@ int perf_evlist__strerror_open(struct perf_evlist *evlist __maybe_unused,
"Error:\t%s.\n"
"Hint:\tCheck /proc/sys/kernel/perf_event_paranoid setting.", emsg);
- if (filename__read_int("/proc/sys/kernel/perf_event_paranoid", &value))
- break;
+ value = perf_event_paranoid();
printed += scnprintf(buf + printed, size - printed, "\nHint:\t");
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