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From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>,
	Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>,
	Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>, David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>,
	Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>,
	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>,
	Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>, Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>,
	Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>,
	Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Subject: [PATCH 02/18] perf evlist: Clarify sterror_mmap variable names
Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2014 13:57:04 -0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1418749040-31807-3-git-send-email-acme@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1418749040-31807-1-git-send-email-acme@kernel.org>

From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

Prep patch for doing further checks like when the number of pages that
is being attempted is actually below /proc/sys/kernel/perf_event_mlock_kb but
the operation fails because the user doesn't have CAP_IPC_LOCK.

Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-wetzlux7mzvofu5cuji5i71i@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
---
 tools/perf/util/evlist.c | 6 +++---
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tools/perf/util/evlist.c b/tools/perf/util/evlist.c
index de7515dd683a..d661f252b891 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/evlist.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/evlist.c
@@ -1487,16 +1487,16 @@ int perf_evlist__strerror_open(struct perf_evlist *evlist __maybe_unused,
 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;
+	int pages_attempted = evlist->mmap_len / 1024, pages_max_per_user;
 
 	switch (err) {
 	case EPERM:
-		sysctl__read_int("kernel/perf_event_mlock_kb", &value);
+		sysctl__read_int("kernel/perf_event_mlock_kb", &pages_max_per_user);
 		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 smaller -m/--mmap-pages value.",
-				     emsg, value, evlist->mmap_len / 1024);
+				     emsg, pages_max_per_user, pages_attempted);
 		break;
 	default:
 		scnprintf(buf, size, "%s", emsg);
-- 
1.9.3


  parent reply	other threads:[~2014-12-16 16:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-12-16 16:57 [GIT PULL 00/18] perf/core improvements and fixes Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2014-12-16 16:57 ` [PATCH 01/18] perf evlist: Fixup brown paper bag on "hint" for --mmap-pages cmdline arg Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2014-12-16 16:57 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo [this message]
2014-12-16 16:57 ` [PATCH 03/18] perf evlist: Improve the strerror_mmap method Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2014-12-16 16:57 ` [PATCH 04/18] perf trace: Let the perf_evlist__mmap autosize the number of pages to use Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2014-12-16 16:57 ` [PATCH 05/18] perf evlist: Do not use hard coded value for a mmap_pages default Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2014-12-17 13:23   ` Jiri Olsa
2014-12-17 14:00     ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2014-12-16 16:57 ` [PATCH 06/18] tools: Move __ffs implementation to tools/include/asm-generic/bitops/__ffs.h Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2014-12-17 13:27   ` Jiri Olsa
2014-12-16 16:57 ` [PATCH 07/18] tools: Move code originally from linux/log2.h to tools/include/linux/ Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2014-12-16 16:57 ` [PATCH 08/18] tools: Move code originally from asm-generic/atomic.h into tools/include/asm-generic/ Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2014-12-16 16:57 ` [PATCH 09/18] tools: Whitespace prep patches for moving bitops.h Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2014-12-16 16:57 ` [PATCH 10/18] tools lib: Move asm-generic/bitops/find.h code to tools/include and tools/lib Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2014-12-17 13:41   ` Jiri Olsa
2014-12-17 14:04     ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2014-12-17 13:42   ` Jiri Olsa
2014-12-17 14:02     ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2014-12-17 14:48       ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2014-12-16 16:57 ` [PATCH 11/18] tools: Introduce asm-generic/bitops.h Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2014-12-16 16:57 ` [PATCH 12/18] tools: Move bitops.h from tools/perf/util to tools/ Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2014-12-16 16:57 ` [PATCH 13/18] tools: Adopt fls_long and deps Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2014-12-16 16:57 ` [PATCH 14/18] tools: Adopt rounddown_pow_of_two " Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2014-12-16 16:57 ` [PATCH 15/18] perf tools: Make the mmap length autotuning more robust Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2014-12-17 13:48   ` Jiri Olsa
2014-12-16 16:57 ` [PATCH 16/18] tools: Adopt roundup_pow_of_two Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2014-12-16 16:57 ` [PATCH 17/18] perf evlist: Use roundup_pow_of_two Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2014-12-16 16:57 ` [PATCH 18/18] perf symbols: Fix use after free in filename__read_build_id Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2014-12-17 14:50 ` [GIT PULL 00/18] perf/core improvements and fixes Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2014-12-18  6:24   ` Ingo Molnar

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