perf tools: Emit clearer message for sys_perf_event_open ENOENT return
Improve sys_perf_event_open ENOENT return handling in top and record, just
like 5a3446b does for stat.
Cc: David Ahern <daahern@cisco.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-top.c b/tools/perf/builtin-top.c
index 1e67ab9..6ce4042 100644
--- a/tools/perf/builtin-top.c
+++ b/tools/perf/builtin-top.c
@@ -1247,6 +1247,8 @@
die("Permission error - are you root?\n"
"\t Consider tweaking"
" /proc/sys/kernel/perf_event_paranoid.\n");
+ if (err == ENOENT)
+ die("%s event is not supported. ", event_name(evsel));
/*
* If it's cycles then fall back to hrtimer
* based cpu-clock-tick sw counter, which