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authorArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>2017-02-13 16:45:24 -0300
committerArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>2017-02-13 17:22:33 -0300
commitd6195a6a2c247515d5832debb51c03a74dc3f8f6 (patch)
tree18a5f7ae1648ab4167c8f2db7fd372b031bce600 /tools/perf/builtin-top.c
parente8c6f437fd12d39e462962eaed2315bac597d34c (diff)
perf evsel: Inform how to make a sysctl setting permanent
When a tool can't open counters due to the kernel.perf_event_paranoit sysctl setting, we inform how to tweak it to allow the operation to succeed, in addition to that, suggest setting /etc/sysctl.conf to make the setting permanent. Suggested-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com> Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-4gwe99k4a6p12d4u8bbyttj2@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'tools/perf/builtin-top.c')
-rw-r--r--tools/perf/builtin-top.c2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-top.c b/tools/perf/builtin-top.c
index d90927f31ff6..5a7fd7af3a6d 100644
--- a/tools/perf/builtin-top.c
+++ b/tools/perf/builtin-top.c
@@ -859,7 +859,7 @@ static void perf_top__mmap_read(struct perf_top *top)
static int perf_top__start_counters(struct perf_top *top)
{
- char msg[512];
+ char msg[BUFSIZ];
struct perf_evsel *counter;
struct perf_evlist *evlist = top->evlist;
struct record_opts *opts = &top->record_opts;