message is currently shown as: Error: You may not have permission to collect %sstats. Consider tweaking /proc/sys/kernel/perf_event_paranoid:
Note the %sstats. With patch this becomes: Error: You may not have permission to collect stats. Consider tweaking /proc/sys/kernel/perf_event_paranoid: Signed-off-by: David Ahern <dsah...@gmail.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jo...@redhat.com> --- tools/perf/util/evsel.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/tools/perf/util/evsel.c b/tools/perf/util/evsel.c index 07b1a3a..63b6f8c 100644 --- a/tools/perf/util/evsel.c +++ b/tools/perf/util/evsel.c @@ -1514,7 +1514,7 @@ int perf_evsel__open_strerror(struct perf_evsel *evsel, switch (err) { case EPERM: case EACCES: - return scnprintf(msg, size, "%s", + return scnprintf(msg, size, "You may not have permission to collect %sstats.\n" "Consider tweaking /proc/sys/kernel/perf_event_paranoid:\n" " -1 - Not paranoid at all\n" -- 1.7.10.1 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/