linux/tools
David Ahern 2305c82fb3 perf tools: Give user better message if precise is not supported
Platforms (e.g., VM's) without support for precise mode get a confusing
error message. e.g.,
$ perf record -e cycles:p -a -- sleep 1

  Error: sys_perf_event_open() syscall returned with 95 (Operation not
  supported).  /bin/dmesg may provide additional information.

  No hardware sampling interrupt available. No APIC? If so then you can
  boot the kernel with the "lapic" boot parameter to force-enable it.
  sleep: Terminated

which is not clear that precise mode might be the root problem. With this
patch:

$ perf record -e cycles:p -fo /tmp/perf.data -- sleep 1
  Error:
  'precise' request may not be supported. Try removing 'p' modifier
  sleep: Terminated

v2: softened message to 'may not be' supported per Robert's suggestion

Signed-off-by: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1347569955-54626-4-git-send-email-dsahern@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2012-10-24 14:20:11 -02:00
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firewire tools/firewire: nosy-dump: increment program version 2010-07-27 11:04:12 +02:00
hv tools/hv: Parse /etc/os-release 2012-09-10 16:43:32 -07:00
include/tools tools/include: Add byteshift headers for endian access 2012-02-28 10:22:51 -08:00
lguest lguest: fix occasional crash in example launcher. 2012-10-04 12:12:59 +09:30
lib/traceevent tools lib traceevent: Fix missed freeing of subargs in free_arg() in filter 2012-10-16 13:07:05 -03:00
nfsd NFSD: Added fault injection script 2011-11-07 21:10:47 -05:00
perf perf tools: Give user better message if precise is not supported 2012-10-24 14:20:11 -02:00
power tools/power/acpi/acpidump: remove duplicated include from acpidump.c 2012-10-09 00:53:23 -04:00
scripts perf tools: Let O= makes handle relative paths 2012-08-16 14:11:11 -03:00
testing Merge branch 'kconfig' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild 2012-10-12 10:28:52 +09:00
usb tools/usb: remove last USBFS user 2012-09-10 11:10:37 -07:00
virtio tools: Fix pthread flag for Makefile of trace-agent used by virtio-trace 2012-09-28 15:05:13 +09:30
vm UAPI: (Scripted) Disintegrate include/linux 2012-10-13 10:46:48 +01:00
Makefile tools: Connect to the kernel build system 2012-04-11 15:00:17 -03:00