[PATCH 1/2] perf: fix printing of perf_event_paranoid message

From: David Ahern
Date: Sat May 25 2013 - 19:54:16 EST


message is currently shown as:

Error:
You may not have permission to collect %sstats.
Consider tweaking /proc/sys/kernel/perf_event_paranoid:

Note the %sstats. With patch this becomes:

Error:
You may not have permission to collect stats.
Consider tweaking /proc/sys/kernel/perf_event_paranoid:

Signed-off-by: David Ahern <dsahern@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
tools/perf/util/evsel.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/tools/perf/util/evsel.c b/tools/perf/util/evsel.c
index 07b1a3a..63b6f8c 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/evsel.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/evsel.c
@@ -1514,7 +1514,7 @@ int perf_evsel__open_strerror(struct perf_evsel *evsel,
switch (err) {
case EPERM:
case EACCES:
- return scnprintf(msg, size, "%s",
+ return scnprintf(msg, size,
"You may not have permission to collect %sstats.\n"
"Consider tweaking /proc/sys/kernel/perf_event_paranoid:\n"
" -1 - Not paranoid at all\n"
--
1.7.10.1

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