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Diffstat (limited to 'tools/perf/builtin-record.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | tools/perf/builtin-record.c | 25 |
1 files changed, 18 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-record.c b/tools/perf/builtin-record.c index 6febcc1..17d1dcb 100644 --- a/tools/perf/builtin-record.c +++ b/tools/perf/builtin-record.c @@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ static u64 user_interval = ULLONG_MAX; static u64 default_interval = 0; static unsigned int page_size; -static unsigned int mmap_pages = 128; +static unsigned int mmap_pages = UINT_MAX; static unsigned int user_freq = UINT_MAX; static int freq = 1000; static int output; @@ -275,11 +275,10 @@ try_again: !no_inherit) < 0) { int err = errno; - if (err == EPERM || err == EACCES) - die("Permission error - are you root?\n" - "\t Consider tweaking" - " /proc/sys/kernel/perf_event_paranoid.\n"); - else if (err == ENODEV && cpu_list) { + if (err == EPERM || err == EACCES) { + ui__warning_paranoid(); + exit(EXIT_FAILURE); + } else if (err == ENODEV && cpu_list) { die("No such device - did you specify" " an out-of-range profile CPU?\n"); } else if (err == EINVAL && sample_id_all_avail) { @@ -302,11 +301,19 @@ try_again: && attr->config == PERF_COUNT_HW_CPU_CYCLES) { if (verbose) - warning(" ... trying to fall back to cpu-clock-ticks\n"); + ui__warning("The cycles event is not supported, " + "trying to fall back to cpu-clock-ticks\n"); attr->type = PERF_TYPE_SOFTWARE; attr->config = PERF_COUNT_SW_CPU_CLOCK; goto try_again; } + + if (err == ENOENT) { + ui__warning("The %s event is not supported.\n", + event_name(pos)); + exit(EXIT_FAILURE); + } + printf("\n"); error("sys_perf_event_open() syscall returned with %d (%s). /bin/dmesg may provide additional information.\n", err, strerror(err)); @@ -506,6 +513,10 @@ static int __cmd_record(int argc, const char **argv) if (have_tracepoints(&evsel_list->entries)) perf_header__set_feat(&session->header, HEADER_TRACE_INFO); + /* 512 kiB: default amount of unprivileged mlocked memory */ + if (mmap_pages == UINT_MAX) + mmap_pages = (512 * 1024) / page_size; + if (forks) { child_pid = fork(); if (child_pid < 0) { |
