From: Song Liu Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2019 19:31:40 +0000 (-0800) Subject: perf utils: Silence "Couldn't synthesize bpf events" warning for EPERM X-Git-Tag: v5.1-rc1~163^2~3^2~31 X-Git-Url: https://git.kernel.dk/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=39f4a913d6d439178177cae8aa2e9a232160fd51;p=linux-block.git perf utils: Silence "Couldn't synthesize bpf events" warning for EPERM Synthesizing BPF events is only supported for root. Silent warning msg when non-root user runs perf-record. Reported-by: David Carrillo-Cisneros Signed-off-by: Song Liu Tested-by: David Carrillo-Cisneros Acked-by: Jiri Olsa Cc: kernel-team@fb.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190204193140.719740-1-songliubraving@fb.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo --- diff --git a/tools/perf/util/bpf-event.c b/tools/perf/util/bpf-event.c index 796ef793f4ce..62dda96b0096 100644 --- a/tools/perf/util/bpf-event.c +++ b/tools/perf/util/bpf-event.c @@ -236,8 +236,8 @@ int perf_event__synthesize_bpf_events(struct perf_tool *tool, pr_debug("%s: can't get next program: %s%s", __func__, strerror(errno), errno == EINVAL ? " -- kernel too old?" : ""); - /* don't report error on old kernel */ - err = (errno == EINVAL) ? 0 : -1; + /* don't report error on old kernel or EPERM */ + err = (errno == EINVAL || errno == EPERM) ? 0 : -1; break; } fd = bpf_prog_get_fd_by_id(id);