linux/tools
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 0a2138b28f perf evlist: Fixup brown paper bag on "hint" for --mmap-pages cmdline arg
When failing due to asking for a number of mmap pages that is more than
the max, it was suggesting that an even bigger number of mmap pages
should be specified, doh, au contraire!

Before:

  [acme@ssdandy linux]$ trace -m 128 usleep 1
  Error:	Operation not permitted.
  Hint:	Check /proc/sys/kernel/perf_event_mlock_kb (516 kB) setting.
  Hint:	Tried using 516 kB.
  Hint:	Try using a bigger -m/--mmap-pages value.
  [acme@ssdandy linux]$

After:

  [acme@ssdandy linux]$ trace -m 128 usleep 1
  Error:	Operation not permitted.
  Hint:	Check /proc/sys/kernel/perf_event_mlock_kb (516 kB) setting.
  Hint:	Tried using 516 kB.
  Hint:	Try using a smaller -m/--mmap-pages value.
  [acme@ssdandy linux]$

And to (really) clarify what happens above, when what the user requests
is <= max and even then it fails, a changeset is being made to tell that
this is a per user limit, not per process (in the above example there
was another 'perf trace' running for this user, which was using all the
pages it could use).

Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-8qope8lxb898narnq5kmu2gf@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2014-12-16 13:38:26 -03:00
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hv Tools: hv: fix file overwriting of hv_fcopy_daemon 2014-07-09 14:21:26 -07:00
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lib perf/core improvements and fixes: 2014-12-12 09:09:52 +01:00
net tools: bpf_jit_disasm: increase image buffer size 2014-05-16 16:44:08 -04:00
nfsd
perf perf evlist: Fixup brown paper bag on "hint" for --mmap-pages cmdline arg 2014-12-16 13:38:26 -03:00
power ACPICA: acpiexec: Do not put STDIN into raw mode unless it is a terminal. 2014-10-21 00:39:40 +02:00
scripts tools lib traceevent: Add global QUIET_CC_FPIC build output 2013-12-19 16:18:10 -03:00
testing Merge branch 'rcu/next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulmck/linux-rcu into core/rcu 2014-11-20 08:57:58 +01:00
thermal/tmon calloc/xcalloc: Fix argument order 2014-12-09 10:06:29 -03:00
time tools: add script to test udelay 2014-07-23 10:16:38 -07:00
usb Linux 3.17-rc5 2014-09-16 09:53:59 -05:00
virtio tools: Consolidate types.h 2014-05-01 21:22:39 +02:00
vm mm/balloon_compaction: add vmstat counters and kpageflags bit 2014-10-09 22:26:01 -04:00
Makefile tools/liblockdep: Build liblockdep from tools/Makefile 2014-05-08 13:34:45 -04:00