Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | Subject | [PATCH v2 1/4] perf trace: substitute CAP_SYS_ADMIN with CAP_PERFMON in error message | From | Alexey Budankov <> | Date | Wed, 22 Apr 2020 17:44:02 +0300 |
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Update error message to mention CAP_PERFMON only. CAP_SYS_ADMIN still works in keeping with user space backward compatibility approach.
Signed-off-by: Alexey Budankov <alexey.budankov@linux.intel.com> --- tools/perf/builtin-ftrace.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-ftrace.c b/tools/perf/builtin-ftrace.c index 55eda54240fb..39d43ad02f30 100644 --- a/tools/perf/builtin-ftrace.c +++ b/tools/perf/builtin-ftrace.c @@ -288,7 +288,7 @@ static int __cmd_ftrace(struct perf_ftrace *ftrace, int argc, const char **argv) perf_cap__capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN))) { pr_err("ftrace only works for %s!\n", #ifdef HAVE_LIBCAP_SUPPORT - "users with the CAP_PERFMON or CAP_SYS_ADMIN capability" + "users with the CAP_PERFMON capability" #else "root" #endif -- 2.24.1
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