perf evlist: Introduce strerror_mmap method

To pretty print hints about perf_evlist__mmap errors. Will be used in
'trace' in the next patch.

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-2g3gczfwyz0xt3we0s15mqqt@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

diff --git a/tools/perf/util/evlist.c b/tools/perf/util/evlist.c
index cfbe2b99b9aa5826b60fc574a211a115fc6f6a2d..bb5dfc5d1e7531596c7f05041383fe3765b79901 100644 (file)
--- a/tools/perf/util/evlist.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/evlist.c
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@
  */
 #include "util.h"
 #include <api/fs/debugfs.h>
+#include <api/fs/fs.h>
 #include <poll.h>
 #include "cpumap.h"
 #include "thread_map.h"
@@ -1483,6 +1484,28 @@ int perf_evlist__strerror_open(struct perf_evlist *evlist __maybe_unused,
        return 0;
 }
 
+int perf_evlist__strerror_mmap(struct perf_evlist *evlist, int err, char *buf, size_t size)
+{
+       char sbuf[STRERR_BUFSIZE], *emsg = strerror_r(err, sbuf, sizeof(sbuf));
+       int value;
+
+       switch (err) {
+       case EPERM:
+               sysctl__read_int("kernel/perf_event_mlock_kb", &value);
+               scnprintf(buf, size, "Error:\t%s.\n"
+                                    "Hint:\tCheck /proc/sys/kernel/perf_event_mlock_kb (%d kB) setting.\n"
+                                    "Hint:\tTried using %zd kB.\n"
+                                    "Hint:\tTry using a bigger -m/--mmap-pages value.",
+                                    emsg, value, evlist->mmap_len / 1024);
+               break;
+       default:
+               scnprintf(buf, size, "%s", emsg);
+               break;
+       }
+
+       return 0;
+}
+
 void perf_evlist__to_front(struct perf_evlist *evlist,
                           struct perf_evsel *move_evsel)
 {

diff --git a/tools/perf/util/evlist.h b/tools/perf/util/evlist.h
index 649b0c597283427572ffb2e43cf0521cb4a971fb..0ba93f67ab946839fb3576d6285cf08cafc4810c 100644 (file)
--- a/tools/perf/util/evlist.h
+++ b/tools/perf/util/evlist.h
@@ -185,6 +185,7 @@ size_t perf_evlist__fprintf(struct perf_evlist *evlist, FILE *fp);
 
 int perf_evlist__strerror_tp(struct perf_evlist *evlist, int err, char *buf, size_t size);
 int perf_evlist__strerror_open(struct perf_evlist *evlist, int err, char *buf, size_t size);
+int perf_evlist__strerror_mmap(struct perf_evlist *evlist, int err, char *buf, size_t size);
 
 static inline unsigned int perf_mmap__read_head(struct perf_mmap *mm)
 {