From 084ab9f862416b2ddb4bb9804884de19bf09774d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2010 13:10:28 -0300 Subject: [PATCH] perf stat: Better report failure to collect system wide stats MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Before: [acme@doppio linux-2.6-tip]$ perf stat -a sleep 1s Performance counter stats for 'sleep 1s': task-clock-msecs context-switches CPU-migrations page-faults cycles instructions branches branch-misses cache-references cache-misses 1.016998463 seconds time elapsed [acme@doppio linux-2.6-tip]$ Now: [acme@doppio linux-2.6-tip]$ perf stat -a sleep 1s No permission to collect system-wide stats. Consider tweaking /proc/sys/kernel/perf_event_paranoid. [acme@doppio linux-2.6-tip]$ Reported-by: Ingo Molnar Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker Cc: Mike Galbraith Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Paul Mackerras LKML-Reference: <1269274229-20442-4-git-send-email-acme@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- Reading git-format-patch failed