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From: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Bug Report
Date: Mon, 11 May 2015 11:14:35 -0600
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To: Alex Newman <posix4e@gmail.com>, linux-perf-users@vger.kernel.org

On 5/11/15 10:57 AM, Alex Newman wrote:
> Hello mailing list friends,
>
> I am sorry if this is not the best place for this (where should I
> report improvements for perf).
>
> This command works when I have the correct permissions but if I don't
> rather than getting "bad permissions" I get
>
> posix4e@posix4e-P27GV2:~$ perf stat -e 'ext4:' -a

that's an invalid event list; it should never work. Did you mean -e 
'ext4:*'?

David