Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | From | Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <> | Subject | [PATCH 03/18] perf evlist: Improve the strerror_mmap method | Date | Tue, 16 Dec 2014 13:57:05 -0300 |
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From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Considering the per user locked pages limit, improve the message when a user uses multiple simultaneous perf mmap calls:
When the request is more than the current maximum:
[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 'sudo sh -c "echo 1032 > /proc/sys/kernel/perf_event_mlock_kb"', or Hint: Try using a smaller -m/--mmap-pages value. [acme@ssdandy linux]$
And when the limit is less than that:
[acme@ssdandy linux]$ trace -m 512 usleep 1 Error: Operation not permitted. Hint: Check /proc/sys/kernel/perf_event_mlock_kb (2056 kB) setting. Hint: Tried using 2052 kB. Hint: Try using a smaller -m/--mmap-pages value. [acme@ssdandy linux]$
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-yqdie3c8qvdgenwleri267d4@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> --- tools/perf/util/evlist.c | 17 +++++++++++++---- 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/evlist.c b/tools/perf/util/evlist.c index d661f252b891..7847f3885081 100644 --- a/tools/perf/util/evlist.c +++ b/tools/perf/util/evlist.c @@ -1487,16 +1487,25 @@ int perf_evlist__strerror_open(struct perf_evlist *evlist __maybe_unused, 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 pages_attempted = evlist->mmap_len / 1024, pages_max_per_user; + int pages_attempted = evlist->mmap_len / 1024, pages_max_per_user, printed = 0; switch (err) { case EPERM: sysctl__read_int("kernel/perf_event_mlock_kb", &pages_max_per_user); - scnprintf(buf, size, "Error:\t%s.\n" + printed += scnprintf(buf + printed, size - printed, + "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 smaller -m/--mmap-pages value.", + "Hint:\tTried using %zd kB.\n", emsg, pages_max_per_user, pages_attempted); + + if (pages_attempted >= pages_max_per_user) { + printed += scnprintf(buf + printed, size - printed, + "Hint:\tTry 'sudo sh -c \"echo %d > /proc/sys/kernel/perf_event_mlock_kb\"', or\n", + pages_max_per_user + pages_attempted); + } + + printed += scnprintf(buf + printed, size - printed, + "Hint:\tTry using a smaller -m/--mmap-pages value."); break; default: scnprintf(buf, size, "%s", emsg); -- 1.9.3
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