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* [PATCH] perf evsel: display dmesg command of showing a hardcoded path
@ 2024-09-22 11:22 Masum Reza
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Masum Reza @ 2024-09-22 11:22 UTC (permalink / raw)
  Cc: masumrezarock100, Peter Zijlstra, Ingo Molnar,
	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo, Namhyung Kim, Mark Rutland,
	Alexander Shishkin, Jiri Olsa, Ian Rogers, Adrian Hunter,
	Liang, Kan, Ze Gao, Yang Jihong, John Titor, linux-perf-users,
	linux-kernel

In non-FHS compliant distros like NixOS, nothing resides in `/bin`
and `/usr/bin`. Instead dynamically symlinked into
`/run/current-system/sw/bin/`, the executable resides in `/nix/store`.

With this patch,`/bin` prefix from the dmesg command in the error
message is stripped.

Link: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/258027
---
 tools/perf/util/evsel.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/tools/perf/util/evsel.c b/tools/perf/util/evsel.c
index bc603193c477..7a06b7cfdc7e 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/evsel.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/evsel.c
@@ -3342,7 +3342,7 @@ int evsel__open_strerror(struct 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 | grep -i perf may provide additional information.\n",
+	"\"dmesg | grep -i perf\" may provide additional information.\n",
 			 err, str_error_r(err, sbuf, sizeof(sbuf)), evsel__name(evsel));
 }
 
-- 
2.46.0


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* [PATCH] perf evsel: display dmesg command of showing a hardcoded path
@ 2024-09-22 11:26 Masum Reza
  2024-09-25 22:41 ` Namhyung Kim
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: Masum Reza @ 2024-09-22 11:26 UTC (permalink / raw)
  Cc: masumrezarock100, Peter Zijlstra, Ingo Molnar,
	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo, Namhyung Kim, Mark Rutland,
	Alexander Shishkin, Jiri Olsa, Ian Rogers, Adrian Hunter,
	Liang, Kan, Ze Gao, Yang Jihong, Yunseong Kim, linux-perf-users,
	linux-kernel

In non-FHS compliant distros like NixOS, nothing resides in `/bin`
and `/usr/bin`. Instead dynamically symlinked into
`/run/current-system/sw/bin/`, the executable resides in `/nix/store`.

With this patch,`/bin` prefix from the dmesg command in the error
message is stripped.

Link: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/258027

Signed-off-by: Masum Reza <masumrezarock100@gmail.com>

---
 tools/perf/util/evsel.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/tools/perf/util/evsel.c b/tools/perf/util/evsel.c
index bc603193c477..7a06b7cfdc7e 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/evsel.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/evsel.c
@@ -3342,7 +3342,7 @@ int evsel__open_strerror(struct 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 | grep -i perf may provide additional information.\n",
+	"\"dmesg | grep -i perf\" may provide additional information.\n",
 			 err, str_error_r(err, sbuf, sizeof(sbuf)), evsel__name(evsel));
 }
 
-- 
2.46.0


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* Re: [PATCH] perf evsel: display dmesg command of showing a hardcoded path
  2024-09-22 11:26 Masum Reza
@ 2024-09-25 22:41 ` Namhyung Kim
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Namhyung Kim @ 2024-09-25 22:41 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Masum Reza
  Cc: Peter Zijlstra, Ingo Molnar, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo,
	Mark Rutland, Alexander Shishkin, Jiri Olsa, Ian Rogers,
	Adrian Hunter, Liang, Kan, Ze Gao, Yang Jihong, Yunseong Kim,
	linux-perf-users, linux-kernel

On Sun, 22 Sep 2024 16:56:16 +0530, Masum Reza wrote:

> In non-FHS compliant distros like NixOS, nothing resides in `/bin`
> and `/usr/bin`. Instead dynamically symlinked into
> `/run/current-system/sw/bin/`, the executable resides in `/nix/store`.
> 
> With this patch,`/bin` prefix from the dmesg command in the error
> message is stripped.
> 
> [...]

Applied to perf-tools-next, thanks!

Best regards,
Namhyung

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