From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758323Ab3EYXyK (ORCPT ); Sat, 25 May 2013 19:54:10 -0400 Received: from mail-pa0-f43.google.com ([209.85.220.43]:58457 "EHLO mail-pa0-f43.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758177Ab3EYXyH (ORCPT ); Sat, 25 May 2013 19:54:07 -0400 From: David Ahern To: acme@ghostprotocols.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: David Ahern , Jiri Olsa Subject: [PATCH 1/2] perf: fix printing of perf_event_paranoid message Date: Sat, 25 May 2013 17:54:00 -0600 Message-Id: <1369526040-1368-1-git-send-email-dsahern@gmail.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 1.7.10.1 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org message is currently shown as: Error: You may not have permission to collect %sstats. Consider tweaking /proc/sys/kernel/perf_event_paranoid: Note the %sstats. With patch this becomes: Error: You may not have permission to collect stats. Consider tweaking /proc/sys/kernel/perf_event_paranoid: Signed-off-by: David Ahern Cc: Jiri Olsa --- 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 07b1a3a..63b6f8c 100644 --- a/tools/perf/util/evsel.c +++ b/tools/perf/util/evsel.c @@ -1514,7 +1514,7 @@ int perf_evsel__open_strerror(struct perf_evsel *evsel, switch (err) { case EPERM: case EACCES: - return scnprintf(msg, size, "%s", + return scnprintf(msg, size, "You may not have permission to collect %sstats.\n" "Consider tweaking /proc/sys/kernel/perf_event_paranoid:\n" " -1 - Not paranoid at all\n" -- 1.7.10.1