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Merge branch 'perf-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip

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* 'perf-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  perf tools: Fix permission checks
  perf_events: Fix some typo in the perf events config description
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Linus Torvalds 2009-11-11 11:29:34 -08:00
commit 26a9ba160f
3 changed files with 4 additions and 4 deletions
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init/Kconfig
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@ -937,7 +937,7 @@ config PERF_EVENTS
Enable kernel support for various performance events provided
by software and hardware.
Software events are supported either build-in or via the
Software events are supported either built-in or via the
use of generic tracepoints.
Most modern CPUs support performance events via performance
@ -949,7 +949,7 @@ config PERF_EVENTS
used to profile the code that runs on that CPU.
The Linux Performance Event subsystem provides an abstraction of
these software and hardware cevent apabilities, available via a
these software and hardware event capabilities, available via a
system call and used by the "perf" utility in tools/perf/. It
provides per task and per CPU counters, and it provides event
capabilities on top of those.

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tools/perf/builtin-record.c
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@ -426,7 +426,7 @@ try_again:
if (fd[nr_cpu][counter] < 0) {
int err = errno;
if (err == EPERM)
if (err == EPERM || err == EACCES)
die("Permission error - are you root?\n");
else if (err == ENODEV && profile_cpu != -1)
die("No such device - did you specify an out-of-range profile CPU?\n");

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tools/perf/builtin-top.c
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@ -1027,7 +1027,7 @@ try_again:
if (fd[i][counter] < 0) {
int err = errno;
if (err == EPERM)
if (err == EPERM || err == EACCES)
die("No permission - are you root?\n");
/*
* If it's cycles then fall back to hrtimer