perf evsel: Inform how to make a sysctl setting permanent

When a tool can't open counters due to the kernel.perf_event_paranoit
sysctl setting, we inform how to tweak it to allow the operation to
succeed, in addition to that, suggest setting /etc/sysctl.conf to
make the setting permanent.

Suggested-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-4gwe99k4a6p12d4u8bbyttj2@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 2017-02-13 16:45:24 -03:00
parent e8c6f437fd
commit d6195a6a2c
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@ -859,7 +859,7 @@ static void perf_top__mmap_read(struct perf_top *top)
static int perf_top__start_counters(struct perf_top *top)
{
char msg[512];
char msg[BUFSIZ];
struct perf_evsel *counter;
struct perf_evlist *evlist = top->evlist;
struct record_opts *opts = &top->record_opts;