In case of failure, unrelated to PERF_FLAG_FD_CLOEXEC,
perf_flag_probe() reports the error twice. For example:

  $ perf record ls
  Error:
  perf_event_open(..., PERF_FLAG_FD_CLOEXEC) failed with unexpected error 16 
(Device or resource busy)
  perf_event_open(..., 0) failed unexpectedly with error 16 (Device or resource 
busy)
  The PMU counters are busy/taken by another profiler.
  We found oprofile daemon running, please stop it and try again.

This patch changes the function to only report a second
error message when the two calls to perf_even_open(2)
fail with different error codes.

Cc: Andi Kleen <a...@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <a...@kernel.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mi...@redhat.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jo...@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <pet...@infradead.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <pau...@samba.org>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hun...@intel.com>
Cc: David Ahern <dsah...@gmail.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweis...@gmail.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhy...@gmail.com>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eran...@google.com>
Cc: William Cohen <wco...@redhat.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1406908014-8312-1-git-send-email-jo...@kernel.org
Reported-by: Jiri Olsa <jo...@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Yann Droneaud <ydrone...@opteya.com>
---
 tools/perf/util/cloexec.c | 24 +++++++++++++-----------
 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tools/perf/util/cloexec.c b/tools/perf/util/cloexec.c
index c5d05ec17220..dc360ebde745 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/cloexec.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/cloexec.c
@@ -13,34 +13,36 @@ static int perf_flag_probe(void)
                .config = PERF_COUNT_SW_CPU_CLOCK,
        };
        int fd;
-       int err;
+       int err0, err1;
 
        /* check cloexec flag */
        fd = sys_perf_event_open(&attr, 0, -1, -1,
                                 PERF_FLAG_FD_CLOEXEC);
-       err = errno;
+       err0 = errno;
 
        if (fd >= 0) {
                close(fd);
                return 1;
        }
 
-       WARN_ONCE(err != EINVAL,
+       WARN_ONCE(err0 != EINVAL,
                  "perf_event_open(..., PERF_FLAG_FD_CLOEXEC) failed with 
unexpected error %d (%s)\n",
-                 err, strerror(err));
+                 err0, strerror(err0));
 
        /* not supported, confirm error related to PERF_FLAG_FD_CLOEXEC */
        fd = sys_perf_event_open(&attr, 0, -1, -1, 0);
-       err = errno;
+       err1 = errno;
 
-       if (WARN_ONCE(fd < 0,
-                     "perf_event_open(..., 0) failed unexpectedly with error 
%d (%s)\n",
-                     err, strerror(err)))
-               return -1;
+       if (fd >= 0) {
+               close(fd);
+               return 0;
+       }
 
-       close(fd);
+       WARN_ONCE(err0 != err1,
+                 "perf_event_open(..., 0) failed unexpectedly with error %d 
(%s)\n",
+                 err1, strerror(err1));
 
-       return 0;
+       return -1;
 }
 
 unsigned long perf_event_open_cloexec_flag(void)
-- 
1.9.3

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