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    perf tools: Fix permission checks · c10edee2
    Pekka Enberg authored
    The perf_event_open() system call returns EACCES if the user is
    not root which results in a very confusing error message:
    
      $ perf record -A -a -f
    
        Error: perfcounter syscall returned with -1 (Permission denied)
    
        Fatal: No CONFIG_PERF_EVENTS=y kernel support configured?
    
    It turns out that's because perf tools are checking only for
    EPERM. Fix that up to get a much better error message:
    
      $ perf record -A -a -f
        Fatal: Permission error - are you root?
    Signed-off-by: default avatarPekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
    Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
    Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
    Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
    LKML-Reference: <1257696066-4046-1-git-send-email-penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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