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Commit f4f1c429 authored by Masami Hiramatsu's avatar Masami Hiramatsu Committed by Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
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perf probe: Report possible permission error for map__load() failure



Report possible permission error including kptr_restrict setting
for map__load() failure. This can happen when non-superuser runs
perf probe.

With this patch, perf probe shows the following message.

 $ perf probe vfs_read
 Failed to load symbols from /proc/kallsyms
 Please ensure you can read the /proc/kallsyms symbol addresses.
 If the /proc/sys/kernel/kptr_restrict is '2', you can not read
 kernel symbol address even if you are a superuser. Please change
 it to '1'. If kptr_restrict is '1', the superuser can read the
 symbol addresses.
 In that case, please run this command again with sudo.
   Error: Failed to add events.

Signed-off-by: default avatarMasami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Tested-by: default avatarArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Ravi Bangoria <ravi.bangoria@linux.ibm.com>
Link: http://lore.kernel.org/lkml/162282065877.448336.10047912688119745151.stgit@devnote2


Signed-off-by: default avatarArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
parent fe4f3eb1
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