From 956fa57106d1ad3ffbe73f4534b9f3b3bc92dd6c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2014 18:03:01 -0300 Subject: perf evlist: Introduce strerror_mmap method To pretty print hints about perf_evlist__mmap errors. Will be used in 'trace' in the next patch. Cc: Adrian Hunter Cc: Borislav Petkov Cc: David Ahern Cc: Don Zickus Cc: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: Mike Galbraith Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Stephane Eranian Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-2g3gczfwyz0xt3we0s15mqqt@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo --- tools/perf/util/evlist.c | 23 +++++++++++++++++++++++ tools/perf/util/evlist.h | 1 + 2 files changed, 24 insertions(+) (limited to 'tools') diff --git a/tools/perf/util/evlist.c b/tools/perf/util/evlist.c index cfbe2b99b9aa..bb5dfc5d1e75 100644 --- a/tools/perf/util/evlist.c +++ b/tools/perf/util/evlist.c @@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ */ #include "util.h" #include +#include #include #include "cpumap.h" #include "thread_map.h" @@ -1483,6 +1484,28 @@ int perf_evlist__strerror_open(struct perf_evlist *evlist __maybe_unused, return 0; } +int perf_evlist__strerror_mmap(struct perf_evlist *evlist, int err, char *buf, size_t size) +{ + char sbuf[STRERR_BUFSIZE], *emsg = strerror_r(err, sbuf, sizeof(sbuf)); + int value; + + switch (err) { + case EPERM: + sysctl__read_int("kernel/perf_event_mlock_kb", &value); + scnprintf(buf, size, "Error:\t%s.\n" + "Hint:\tCheck /proc/sys/kernel/perf_event_mlock_kb (%d kB) setting.\n" + "Hint:\tTried using %zd kB.\n" + "Hint:\tTry using a bigger -m/--mmap-pages value.", + emsg, value, evlist->mmap_len / 1024); + break; + default: + scnprintf(buf, size, "%s", emsg); + break; + } + + return 0; +} + void perf_evlist__to_front(struct perf_evlist *evlist, struct perf_evsel *move_evsel) { diff --git a/tools/perf/util/evlist.h b/tools/perf/util/evlist.h index 649b0c597283..0ba93f67ab94 100644 --- a/tools/perf/util/evlist.h +++ b/tools/perf/util/evlist.h @@ -185,6 +185,7 @@ size_t perf_evlist__fprintf(struct perf_evlist *evlist, FILE *fp); int perf_evlist__strerror_tp(struct perf_evlist *evlist, int err, char *buf, size_t size); int perf_evlist__strerror_open(struct perf_evlist *evlist, int err, char *buf, size_t size); +int perf_evlist__strerror_mmap(struct perf_evlist *evlist, int err, char *buf, size_t size); static inline unsigned int perf_mmap__read_head(struct perf_mmap *mm) { -- cgit v1.2.1