* Ramkumar Ramachandra <artag...@gmail.com> wrote:

> +     /* Perform a quick sanity check */
> +     if (!is_valid_tracepoint("power:cpu_frequency")) {
> +             fprintf(stderr, "Error:\tNo permissions to read 
> $debugfs/tracing/events/power/cpu_frequency\n");
> +             fprintf(stderr, "Hint:\tChange the permissions of debugfs: 
> /sys/kernel/debug\n");
> +             fprintf(stderr, "\tThe directory will be present if your kernel 
> was compiled with debugfs support.\n");

Is missing permissions the only way how is_valid_tracepoint() can fail?

What if debugfs has the right permissions but CONFIG_TRACEPOINTS is 
disabled in the kernel?

Thanks,

        Ingo
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